Anaïs De Caster

The Belgian dancer Anaïs De Caster graduated from the Royal Ballet School in Antwerp in 2017. From the 2017-2018 season she has been a member of the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen company. She has danced in Pina Bausch's Le Sacre du printemps, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Noetic, Exhibition and Memento Mori, Sharon Eyal’s Half Life and the world premiering creations The Heart of August by Édouard Lock and Palmos by Andonis Foniadakis, among others. In 2023 she can be seen in productions such as Creature by Akram Khan, One Flat Thing, reproduced by William Forsythe and New Ballet mécanique by Richard Siegal.

Repertoire at OBV

• Doornroosje (Marcia Haydée after Marius Petipa)
• Spartacus (Yuri Grigorovich)
• Pond Way (Merce Cunningham)
• L’Oiseau de feu (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
• The Heart of August (Édouard Lock)*
• Als niemand me ziet (Jonas Vlerick)*
• Exhibition (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
• Faust (Jean-Christophe Maillot): Esprit de Marguerite
• Les Noces (Edward Clug)
• L’Après-midi d’un Faune (Vaslav Nijinsky): Nimf
• Memento Mori (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
• Workwithinwork (William Forsythe)
• Giselle (Akram Khan)
• Twelve Ton Rose (Trisha Brown)
• Fall (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
• Chronicle (Martha Graham)
• JOY (Alexander Ekman)
• Bach Studies (Benjamin Millepied)*
• Cantus Firmus (Jeanne Brabants)
• RASA [after La Bayadère] (Daniel Proietto)*
• Noetic (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
• Giselle (Akram Khan)
• Tempus Fugit (Johan Inger)
• Le Sacre du printemps (Pina Bausch)
• Palmos (Andonis Foniadakis)*
• Half Life (Sharon Eyal)
• Creature (Akram Khan)
• Vier muren - Chamber movement, perspectives on Bach (Nicola Wills)*
• One Flat Thing, reproduced (William Forsythe)
• Adagio [there is no rose without a thorn] - Choreolab (Claudio Cangialosi)*
• New Ballet mécanique (Richard Siegal)*

*originated the role

Update: October 2023