I am delighted when the ideas and practices of engineers and artists overlap, bump up against one another, shed light on one another, and offer portals into imagination and creation. I love how this group continually expands my thinking about what is possible.
Aynsley Vandenbroucke is obsessed with the movement of ideas, the choreography of language and experiences. She’s especially interested in creative processes in which fields blur to create something new, and her work shifts between dance, writing, curation, and social practice.
Aynsley’s performances have been presented at Abrons Arts Center, Danspace Project, and the Chocolate Factory, among many others. She co-founded Mount Tremper Arts, an arts center in the Catskill Mountains that became a staple of the downtown New York performing arts community, with performances lauded in major press outlets like The New York Times and Artforum. She played a key role in curating, designing the studio performance space, and creating initiatives to support artists and welcome new audiences.
Her writing has been published by PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Seneca Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. In 2021, she edited and published “Gathering Space,” a collection of writing, art, science, and other experiments across disciplines, which she distributed for free in bookstores, galleries, and other unlikely locations. She is currently working on a project related to eldercare, language dissolution, and alternative family structures.
A lecturer in the Program in Dance at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, Aynsley regularly collaborates with colleagues in departments across the university and has developed innovative, interdisciplinary courses such as “Power, Structure, and the Human Body,” “Uncertainty,” “Stillness,” and “Body and Language.”