Aurélien Dony

- Belgium -

Born in Dinant in 1993, Aurélien Dony was trained at the Theatre and Arts of Speech Brussels Royal Conservatory in 2015. In parallel with his studies, he wrote and published several works, mainly poetry. He represented French-speaking Belgium in 2013 at the Festival de Trois-Rivières in Québec, in 2018 at the cross-border Printemps poétique, and in March 2020 in Québec during a poetic dialogue between Namur and Québec. He was also an invitee at the poetry festivals in Acadia (October 2022) and in Benin (April 2023). In 2019 he co-founded the Absolu Théâtre with Charly Simon. With this company he created several shows, A-vide (2020), L’Oeil du cerf (2023) and La Plaine (2024).

 

Since 2019 he teaches playwriting and collective creation at the Brussels Royal Conservatory.

 

More than ever Aurélien is now radically committed to poetry writing and its expansion in different fields of live shows (performance, readings, creations, actions in public spaces…).


As a poet, stage director, interpret, educator at the Brussels Royal Academy and trainer in writing workshops, Aurélien Dony seeks to explore the resources of language. He multiplies poetic experiences with the sole aim of delving into the poem potentials.

 

On stage with the Absolu Théâtre he is co-directing with Charles Simon, he blends poetry texts with live dance and music (with A-vide, for which he is nominated for the “Maeterlinck de la Critique” Prize in 2022, with La Plaine also, a collective multidisciplinary show in which he interprets unpublished texts by Lisette Lombé, Laurence Vielle, Jean d’Amérique, Mel Moya, Jérémie Tholomé, by the sides of two dancers and two musicians…). In his writings, the relationships with the body, the multiple loves, the intensity of being in the world are examined in various forms.

 

He is a participant in many national and international festivals (Voix Vives de Méditerranée en Méditeranée, Sète; Benin Poetry festival; festival Poema, Nancy; festival de Trois-Rivières, Québec; slam and poetry festival of Acadia…) and is awarded several literature prizes in Belgium. 

 

In 2013 his first poetry collection Puisque l’aube est défaite (MEO) is published and awarded the Georges Lockem Prize the same year. Up until now he authored several collections among which are, to name but the latest ones, Grammaire du vide (L’Arbre à Paroles, Spring 2023), A-vide followed by J’aimerais mourir sous un orme Les Oiseaux de nuit, 2021), Amour Noir (Maelström, April 2021), Du feu dans les brindilles (Bleu d’encre, 2019).