Vaisseau / Léa Drouet

Léa Drouet is a stage director. She has been based and working in Brussels since 2010. Her work takes various forms and circulates between installation, theater, and performance. She founded VAISSEAU in 2014, a production structure that tries to adapt to different proposals, to different experimented formats and those yet to come.

Despite the diversity of forms offered, her constant interest in certain questions is perceived. How can we shift issues from the humanities into the realm of the sensitive, the sonorous, the corporeal, and the material? How to share aesthetic experiences that translate different political and social issues.

Close to the experimental music scene in Brussels, she collaborates with various musicians. She also surrounds herself with artists at the intersection of several practices.

0&, presented at the XS Festival of the National Theater, is created in collaboration with Clément Vercelletto, bringing together a group of twenty performers for a cassette tape recorder concert. Several versions of this spatialized chorality will be subsequently declined at the invitation of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in the Brussels-Congress Station (Derailment, 2015) or at the Palais de Tokyo for the Indiscipline event.

"But in the face of peril grows also that which saves" is presented at the Brigittines skatepark as part of the launch of the Kunstenfestival in 2016. The event was built in collaboration with the users of the skatepark around the notion of risk-taking and accident. It gathers interviews with three young skaters about their injuries and their relationship to risk, and the installation of a circle of fire in which the skaters attempted perilous figures in public.

In June 2020, Léa Drouet becomes the new artistic coordinator for the Atelier 210 theater in Brussels. She creates in September 2020, the play Violences (Festival Actoral, Nanterre-Amandiers, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Charleroi dance).

She is currently working in collaboration with the philosopher and dramaturge Camille Louis on a proposal for an experimental school, which follows in the wake of her play, I Have a Sword, created in 2023.