Larysa Bauge

​About:​

Larysa Bauge is a performance artist, educator, and former orchestra conductor based in the Netherlands. Her work emerges from feminist performance practice and investigates the intersections of identity, gender, labour, violence, and the body—treating embodiment as a site of resistance, transformation, and critical intervention.

 

She teaches courses that examine the embodied dimensions of identity and power, the relationship between performance and political action, the dramaturgies of conflict, and ethically grounded practices of care within creative work.

Her current research investigates the somatic and cognitive processes through which bodies learn and internalise violence, exploring how performance can serve as a critical site for interrogating, unsettling, and undoing trained dispositions.

 

Drawing on her combined experience as an orchestra conductor and visual artist, Bauge also develops courses for musicians that address the visual and spatial dimensions of performance—focusing on staging, materiality, embodied presence, and the often-overlooked politics of musical interpretation.

 

Her artistic practice contributes to a vision of society that is imaginative, critically engaged, and resistant to systems of oppression and the erasure of dissenting voices. Through a deliberate merging of poetic, non-narrative forms with incisive political analysis, her work navigates the space between the personal and the structural. Her performances and pedagogical practices interrogate belonging, care, and community while challenging the norms and preconceptions that shape social and institutional realities.

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