Mission & Vision 

Aiming to improve body intelligence, Not Standing creates, produces, distributes, and communicates Alexander Vantournhout’s unique hybrid movement art to a variety of audiences, across national borders and disciplines. 

Not Standing uses the artistic work of Alexander Vantournhout to tell something about the human body, about movement and about physicality in the most fundamental way and aspires to increase body sensitivity for everyone who participates in its activities.

Not Standing embraces limits as a challenge. What is impossible for one individual is made possible with the help of another person and/or an object. Cooperation is essential to overcome physical limitations in the artistic trajectory as well as on an organisational level. 

Continuity and sustainability are central in both (labour) relations and expanded/collaborative trajectories, in securing and showing the repertory and in the relationship with an ever-growing audience.

Generosity – towards each other, towards the public, and towards the world – is a core value. Sharing knowledge and passing on a broadened vision of the body are paramount. Not Standing’s unique language of movement generates meaning and resonates outside the arts.

Not Standing does not think in pigeonholes or in categories. It crosses the boundaries of disciplines and creates a unique and hybrid movement art. Contemporary dance is expanded through cross-fertilisation in an open and horizontal organisation characterised by a lasting commitment that can be continually strengthened.

With the support of the Flemish authorities

Alexander Vantournhout is artist-in-residence at Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER in Ghent and associated artist of le CENTQUATRE Paris. He is cultural ambassador of the city of Roeselare and is also supported by Fondation BNP Paribas for the development of his projects.