Larysa Bauge
Research
Performance Art
Pedagogy
About:
Larysa Bauge is a performance artist, educator, and former orchestra conductor based in the Netherlands. Her work is rooted in feminist performance and explores the intersections of identity, gender, labor, violence and the body —approaching it as a battleground for resistance, transformation, and subversion.
As an educator, she designs and facilitates workshops on topics such as identity and politics, performance and activism, the body as political material, the performativity of conflict, and ethics of care in performance. Her current research focuses on trained violence and the potential of performance as a mode of resistance.
Drawing on her unique combination of experience as an orchestra conductor and visual artist, Larysa Bauge teaches courses for musicians that explore the visual dimensions of musical performance—spatial composition, materiality of performance, politics of the body and stage presence, often overlooked in traditional interpretation.
Larysa Bauge’s practice seeks to contribute to a vision of society that is imaginative, critically engaged, and unafraid to challenge the status quo. Her work stands as a firm resistance to all forms of systemic oppression or the erasure of dissenting voices. Through a deliberate merging of poetic, non-narrative expression with sharp political insight, Bauge navigates the space between the personal and the structural. Her performances and educational work interrogate concepts of belonging, care, and community, while courageously confronting the norms and preconceptions that shape our social realities.
