Jesus de Vega by Yoten Atelier

I am a multimedia artist working with dance, sound, and perception. I’m interested in how subtle sensory suggestions—shared through the body and through sound—can awaken something in the viewer: stirring imagination, memory, and sensation, and inviting movement through rhythm.

My aim is to move you—inside and outside of the skin.

Curious, eclectic and intuitive, I explore the liminal space between movement and sound creation—an area that has always drawn me in. I’m passionate about creative processes, and I draw inspiration from liminality, transformation, electronic music, modular synthesizers, and Japanese aesthetics.

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My artistic practice is based on BeingSonic, a creative method I developed inspired by sonic synthesis processes and of which I impart workshops.. You can read more about it here.

Jesús de Vega interstice

Rooted in dance, my work reaches beyond form into sensation, texture, and resonance. Over three decades, I have worn many hats—dancer, choreographer, rehearsal director, teacher, artistic advisor—and through these lenses, I’ve come to understand choreography as more than shaping bodies in space: it is about shaping perception, attention, and inner vibration.

Sound has fascinated me since childhood. I played with cassettes, synths, and voice recordings—treating sound as a physical, malleable material, much like movement.

This early curiosity became intensely personal in 2009, when a severe knee injury changed everything. The sound of my patella dislocating echoed through my body, turning me into a resonant box—an amplifier of frequency, disruption, and transformation. That rupture wasn’t an end, but a redefinition: revealing sound as internal movement, and movement as vibration.

“What is choreography? A space of transformation through resonance, energy, and imagination. An invitation to move, listen, imagine”

This fracture was a turning point. It introduced a heightened sensitivity to my work, and, in a world increasingly fractured by polarization, it reinforced a core question in my practice: How do we move through rupture? It also deepened my curiosity about choreography—not just as structure or form, but as a question in itself. A way of noticing. A way of listening. A way of being in relation.

“Can imagination become a space of resistance—of transformation?”

Since 2018 my work has ventured deeper into sound—into resonance, vibration, and listening as acts of choreography. I treat sound as movement, as performer, and the body as a vessel that listens, filters, distorts, and radiates vibration. By nurturing imagination and creative freedom through the interplay of sound and movement, I explore new sonic landscapes and embodied expressions as pathways to alternative realities.

“How can sound move us—before meaning, beyond language, through the body?”

My recent work emerges from fragments—textures, pulses, rhythms, movement—that serve as suggestive cues, inviting each viewer to build their own internal landscape. They provoke sensation and create porous environments where body and sound merge to transcend.

That’s the choreography I care about. That’s what I want to share.

My work has toured across Holland, as well as internationally (Italy, Istanbul, Netherlands, Spain and in the U.K). It has been programmed in venues like Frascati, Paradiso, Meervaart, Bellevue, Korzo, NWE Vorst, Grand Theatre, Park theatre, Riley Theatre and shown in festivals like Operaestate, ADE, Moving Futures, Mundial, Nazomer festival, Boulevard Festival or the Nederlandse Dansdagen amongst others.

As dancer: worked with companies and choreographers such as ICK, Galili Dance, Iceland Dance Company, Metros, Stephen Shropshire, André Gingras, Sylvain Emard and Vaclav Kunes amongst others.

As teacher: workshops for Dutch Institutions like Fontys, AHK, Artez, Codarts, Lucia Marthas, Henny Juriens and ICK Amsterdam, and internationally in Norrdans (Sweden), Operaestate (Italy), Akbank Sanat (Turkey), NSCD (Leeds), CAD (Seville), and in private studios in Austria, Italy, Greece and Spain.

Artistic advisor for: Christian Guerematchi in “Funk” and “Hissy Fit”, Keren Rosenberg, in “The void of longing/Not on this earth” and “Emotional Porn: Exhibition of the Self”, and for the performance/concert “Deep Blue” of Project Wildemann.

I have been artistic coordinator of the Academy pillar at ICK Amsterdam , for whom I conceptualized and developed the creative toolkit “Sensorium”, a way to trigger creativity through sensorial input.

The season 23/24 I was rehearsal director/Coordinator of ICK Amsterdam.