Isabelle Beirens

Isabelle Beirens was born on 25 March 1973 under the sign of Aries, a sign which, according to her mother, gave her this irrepressible urge to move. Desire? Life! And life is movement! And movement is rhythm. Even when we are still, we move: our hearts beat, we breathe, our blood circulates. And our bodies tell their own stories and create their own rhythms.

After training at the Brussels Circus School, where she then taught for fifteen years, she quickly began working in theatre, providing specific physical training for actors. She gradually developed a more precise language, a possible path that could lead them to access their ‘body language’.
Isabelle Beirens also trained with Arnould Massart as part of the CEPC, as she seeks to introduce concepts of rhythm to students in the Theatre Department and concepts of physicality to students in the Bachelor's programme in Rhythms and Rhythmics (yoga and juggling).
For some time now, she has also been inviting music students from the Jazz department to participate in her classes, and they try to find common improvisation patterns to inspire musical and physical performance (music students and actors improvise together, some in movement, others in music). All languages are connected. The accents are just not in the same places, so to speak, which gives them different forms.

Isabelle Beirens started out as a child practising gymnastics; she then began practising martial arts (aikido and viet-vo-dao), before taking up dance (modern and contemporary). She chose acrobatics as her preferred technique at circus school. She worked in a duo with a partner for several years. She continued to train in modern and contemporary dance (Studio Jette, PARTS summer courses, Axis Syllabus with Frey Faust and Baris Mici). She completed a four-year training course to teach yoga (Desikachar tradition). She also completed a three-year post-training course to continue her study of text. She studied music at the academy and is very interested in the cultural history of the body.

Isabelle Beirens has been teaching at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles since 2014 and at ARTS2 since 2020, in the field of theatre. The techniques covered in her classes are not an end in themselves, but a means of providing an opportunity to express oneself and to express through movement, to become aware of the score that the body writes at every moment, according to each situation.