Vaisseau / Léa Drouet

Léa Drouet is a director and artistic coordinator at Atelier 210 in Brussels.

Her work explores how political and social issues can be translated into sensory, auditory and physical expressions.

Her early plays took collective and immersive forms: 0& (Festival XS – Théâtre National, Palais de Tokyo, Kunstenfestivaldesarts) and Mais au lieu du péril croit aussi ce qui sauve (Kunstenfestivaldesarts, 2016). In 2018, she created Boundary Games (Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Actoral), which questions the formation and breakdown of groups when faced with borders. She then presented Les Hostilités (2019, Actoral/SACD), a transdisciplinary collaboration with Adeline Rosenstein.

In 2020, she created Violences (Festival Actoral, Nanterre-Amandiers, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Charleroi danse), a play in which intimate memory and grand history meet. Her latest creation, J’ai une épée (2023, Théâtre de la Bastille, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Théâtre de Liège, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, le Maillon, Next arts festival, etc.), continues this research by questioning representations of childhood and the institutions that frame them.

Since 2016, Léa has been collaborating with philosopher and playwright Camille Louis, with whom she develops projects at the crossroads of art and research, including the École Expérimentale, a programme that transforms invisible knowledge into collective teaching and seeks to highlight the links between social, bodily and terrestrial inflammations.

She is currently preparing RODEO (2026), a vast installation-performance that weaves together four narrative investigations across territories and eras to map the causes of inflammation and question our ways of resisting and composing the common.