Mileen Borgonjon (BE, °1982) is a dancer & performer, poet and dance teacher. In 2011 she graduated at TIP, school of dance, improvisation and performance in Freiburg (DE).
As an artist she researches inter-human connections, the fine universes of the different senses and how they connect with space and time, as well as the work of composing in the instant and what that means in a performance setting. She often collaborates with artists of other media, looking for common or new artistic languages.
In 2011 Mileen graduated as a dancer in the piece ‘JETLAG TOKYO’ and as a choreographer in cooperation with Yannis Karalis (GR) with ‘JETLAG BLUES’. Later Mileen danced on KUNSTNACHT in E-werk, a recognized festival in Freiburg and danced in the piece ‘MODERNE NOMADEN’ of choreographer Bettina Helmrich (DE). In 2012 she travelled in Germany with the piece ‘MISATANGO’ of choreographer Bettina Inés Truffat.
Mileen has been performing with dance theatre company Betweenlines (CH) for 3 years since 2013. She is an ongoing guest dancer for OFFSPACE Kompanie (DE). She danced with Theater Tekkel (BE) for the piece '7 Is A CAVE'. Since 2013 she is part of POST.TRAUM.Collective.
Collaborations in the research and performance of Instant Composed work have been taking place on different festivals and events in Germany (KUNSTNACHT E-Werk Freiburg, OFFSPACE Kompanie, Improvisation Xchange Berlin), Israel (Contactfestival Tel Aviv), Spain (Living Art Base Catalunya) and Belgium (Gardensessions, BOMfestival Gent), with different dancers and other artists, amongst which Michael Shapira, Lea Kieffer, Siri Clinckspoor, Liu Tchi-Ann, Lee Chen-Wei and Maya Wuytack.
Mileen continuously deepens and refines knowledge, skills, experience and expertise through performing, exchanging, teaching and through training with masters, amongst which: David Zambrano, Julyen Hamilton (UK), Maya M. Carroll (IL/DE), Juliana Neves (Les Ballets C de la B), Zuna Kozànkovà (SK), Peter Jasko (Les Slovaks), ‘Fighting Monkey’, Batsheva Dance Company, Peter Savel, Claire Filmon (FR), Lilo Stahl (DE), Itay Yatuv (IL), and more.
Mileen is dance coordinator for WISPER and teaches contemporary dance, contact improvisation and instant composition.