PERFORMER
For over ten years, Jelle has honed his craft as a performer. In his work, he is drawn to all the ways in which he can explore human behavior and shine a light on what lies just beneath the surface.
BLUE
Co-Lab
2020 - present
Currently, Jelle is focused on CO-LAB, a performance collective of Latin American and European artists founded in 2020 and based in Berlin, Germany. The collective aims to bring performance art closer to the audience and to give new meaning and interpretation to urban environments, by performing contemporary dance & live music in the public space.
The members of CO-LAB are Francisco Martínez, Jelle De Wit and Thomas Mayer.
BLUE is a 20-minute dance - performance created during a pandemic lockdown and shaped by a deep sense of uncertainty. In 2025, the work resonates in a new way: we now live in a time where polarisation hardens and opposing worldviews seem to drift farther and farther apart. BLUE responds to that tension by exploring states of transition—moments that resist choosing sides and instead hold multiple realities at once.
The performance finds its inspiration in the blue hour, the moment when day drifts into night, when colours soften and borders lose definition. Two dancers move in synchronised, repetitive patterns that arise from an inner pulse, gradually transformed by live music. Their movements suggest an internal negotiation: a body navigating light and shadow, openness and retreat, clarity and blur.
As the piece unfolds, the environment transforms with it. An ordinary urban space is slowly tinted by the presence of the performers; sound, rhythm and shifting light begin to flirt with one another. For twenty minutes, day and night seem to blend, creating a fleeting harmony where contrasts stop opposing and start resonating—not to resolve into darkness, but to reveal a richer spectrum of in-between.
BLUE invites the audience to pause inside that moment, where uncertainty becomes a space of connection rather than division.
AKAAREMOERTOE BAHIKOEROE
Lucinda Ra
2015
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VERFIE
DefDef
2015 - 2018
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DE MEESTER
VAN DE ZWARTE MOLEN
Het Laagland
2011 - 2012
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DE BULTENKLACHT
Lucinda Ra
2013 -2014
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DIRECTOR
As a director, Jelle is inspired by the concept of Bricolage. Le bricoleur is a savage mind who loves putting pre-existing things together in entirely new ways. Rough material - bits of text, music, movement scores or objects - enter into a dialogue with the performers and stories take shape.
Jelle likes to use improvisation exercises and observe how performers interact with each other and with the material. In his mind, the material is very much alive and part of the dialogue, functioning as another actor or performer on stage.