Tijen Lawton is a Turkish / English international dance artist and physical theatre performer based in Belgium. For over three decades, her practice has moved through performing, choreographing, transmitting, mentoring, researching, and co-creating—woven together as one continuous field of inquiry.

Her work unfolds in collaboration with artists and companies such as Jan Lauwers / Needcompany, Lisaboa Houbrechts, Andrew Graham, laGeste, and Ultima Vez, within spaces where challenge is sustained, questions remain open, and experience is carried through the body rather than resolved by form. The performer’s presence—listening, porous, and fully engaged—stands at the core of her artistic process.

Transmission is not separate from performance, but an extension of it. Tijen rigorously investigates the body as a living archive—a site of memory in motion, where personal, collective, and ancestral traces migrate through time. This living dramaturgy remains fully in action, continually reshaping itself, nourishing a body that is at once creative, receptive, and enduring.

She trained at Arts Educational School London, The Place – London Contemporary Dance School, and The Juilliard School in New York City, forming a practice grounded in precision, curiosity, and an ongoing commitment to embodied research.