Marc Bogaerts is a Belgian choreographer and artistic director living in Berlin.
Bogaerts studied Latin, Greek and philosophy with the Jesuits for seven years, which influenced his later work by integrated understanding of all sports, the unity of body and soul, as it was formulated by the ancient Greeks.
From 1982 to 1993 he resided in New York City, where he danced as an honorary guest performer with Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown and Laura Dean, taught at the Actors Studio in New York and initiated numerous artistic social projects raising awareness about abortion, drugs and genocide.
He created a lot of social-cultural works worldwide with major involvement of youth.
At the moment creating a synthesis of sport and stage art is in the centre of his artistic work.