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Rasa Alksnyte is a teacher, dancer-choreographer, photographer, food artist and an artistic adviser-mentor based in Belgium, member of international network FoAM ( www.fo.am ). In 1995 she graduated from Marijampole pedagogical College, as a Primary school teacher. The following years she studied in Vilnius conservatory, the dance and choreography department and Contemporary dance school P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. As a performer she worked with many different choreographers, theater directors and video artists such as A. Nagineviciute, P. Frenac, T. Roggof, R. Rastauskas, G.Valenti, G. Seputis... In 1998 she joined the butoh dance company ARIADONE in France led by K. Ikeda and K. Murobushi for the creation and touring of dance piece “Haru No Saiten” Since 2000 she is a core team member of the cultural organization FoAM. Together with FoAM she created many food related performances such as “Blancmange” , “Open sauces” , “Dream team dinners”, “Smoke & Vapor”, “Deep sweet” and a number of multidisciplinary projects such as “Borrowed scenery”, “Inner garden”, “Hotel resilients”, “Doing Nothing” etc... From 2010 in a close collaboration with the performing artist Eisa Jocson she co-created a number of dance interventions in urban spaces in Brussels and Sint-Niklaas and gave artistic guidance and direction for the full length dance pieces “Death of the pole dancer”, “Macho dancer”, “Host” and “Princess” and “Your majesty”.