Justine Theizen
Trained in hip hop with the Brussels collective Ronin and then in Krump, Justine continued her training with Cindy Claes in the Groundwork and 1000 pièces puzzle companies, where she developed a style combining storytelling and hip hop theatre.
With a background in image technique, she anchors her work in a cinematic and sensitive approach. Winner of the Brussels Bijou competition, she also danced with the We Are Not People company, and in RUUPTUUR by Mercedes Dassy, I’ll be there for you (for me) by Lorena Spindler, LA Ave (Nina Munoz) and Rivoluzione e Nostalgia (choreographed by Michiel Vandevelde, at La Monnaie Opera House).
She also created her dragking character @Zack, organised the Battle All About Love, and is now developing her own choreographic work, notably with the creation of her piece POV. As queer hip-hop artist, she pursues her research between stage, drag and performance.
Services, Get Down accompanies this artist through:
- Management
- Distribution
- Touring
- Production & administration
Presentation File Justine Theizen
Creations
POV
POV is a performance combining hip-hop dance, theatre, drag king and video, which questions how lesbian and queer identities are constructed today. Inspired by TikTok formats and “POV” trends, it borrows their rhythm and aesthetics: short sequences, humour, participation and digital references, in order to challenge the norms and stereotypes linked to queer representations.
Justine Theizen and Greta Fjellman shift and subvert these codes to offer a perspective that is both critical and playful, blending choreography, acting, direct address to the audience and sensitivity. Through this, POV invites us to rethink categories and expectations, while opening up a space for complicity, visibility and emancipation.
Battle 'All About Love'
Hip Hop and queer dancer, Justine Theizen, artist accompanied by Get Down, has always wanted to bring together hip hop and queer dance communities…Thus was born the All Style ‘All About Love’ Battle. Her goal is to propose a so-called “safer” space which highlights and offers visibility to queer dancers in a hip hop event format : the battle.