For their residency in Kintai, Judith Dhondt & Urtė Groblytė were working on a publication in collaboration with Arno Huygens resulting from their master projects – ‘DUST’ & ‘A LOVELY CONSTRUCTION SITE’. Both projects and the artistic practice that they share come from a mutual interest for language and the playful but not so innocent space of erotics.
Publication revolves around characters hmm & huh who roam around somewhere in a mouth-cavity-like emptiness, a fossilized landscape, seemingly alone. The lack, the loss or grief embedded in their dusty world, and desire to fill the gap they are in language, drives them to reach towards each other, rather extremely and very hungry…
With these writings that emerge from reading and moving practices, Urtė & Judith are trying to reflect on intimacy, in a broad understanding of the word, containing all its ambiguity and conflicting desires. In season ’25-’26 they will re-work ‘DUST’ (under Shake your Skills with BUDA & detheatermaker), and start a new research project called ‘ilOvetOyOu’.
Judith Dhondt (she/they, BE, 1998) is a performer, maker and writer. For the past years they have been active as a performer/maker in the collective: NOON. NOON is a transdisciplinary collective that nourishes interconnection, moved by environmental issues and by the question of relationality in a broad sense. Currently they are developing a new project called ‘And now the beginning is somewhere else’, that will premiere in spring 2025. In 2021 Judith graduated from the MA program, Drama, of KASK (Ghent, BE) and the MA program of P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels, BE) called STUDIOS. Next to this, Judith expands her choreographic practice into film works such as ‘ALICE’ (Sven Spur, 2026) and ‘It’s raining, it’s pouring’ (Wannes Vanspauwen & Pol de Plecker, 2023)
Urtė Groblytė (she/her, LT, 1999) is a maker and performer based in Brussels working within dance, theatre, and choreography. Her eclectic approach spans multiple mediums, resulting in works that explore collage, collisions, and layered attachments of materials, emotions, thoughts, and movement. Fiction, poetry, and storytelling – alongside a deep engagement with physicality – shape her artistic process, fostering a continuous dialogue between text and movement. Urtė finished National M.K. Čiurlionis School of Arts(LT) with classical ballet training. Between 2018-2019 she studied modern dance in Folkwang University of Arts. In 2022 she graduated from B.A. program at P.A.R.T.S. and finished a M.A. program STUDIOS there in 2024.
▶ Kintai Arts residency programme for individual projects
