Lisbeth Gruwez (1977) is a Belgian dancer and choreographer, and one half of Voetvolk’s artistic team. Lisbeth studied at the Royal Ballet School of Antwerp and from 1997 to 1998 at P.A.R.T.S in Brussels. She started her professional career with Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus in the Pasolini project Of Heaven and Hell, and Far from Sleeping Dogs with Iztok Kovač.

Since 1999, Lisbeth has worked with Jan Fabre, performing in As long as the world needs a warrior’s soul (2000), followed by Je suis sang (2001) made for la Cour d'honneur du Festival d'Avignon. She was one of Fabre's guerriers de la beauté (“warriors of beauty”), also playing role in Pierre Coulibeuf’s film of the same name (2001). Some years later, Jan Fabre created the iconic solo Quando l’uomo principale è una donna for Lisbeth Gruwez. In 2002 she worked with Needcompany/Jan Lauwers performing in Images of Affection, going on to work with Grace Ellen Barkey in Few Things and Cry Me a River by Riina Saastamoinen. In 2003 she danced in the Polydans production See-Sick, and the highly acclaimed piece Foi, a production by Les Ballets C. de la B./Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. She also participated in the installation DON’T, with Peter Verhelst. Lisbeth played a leading role in Lost Persons Area and The Silent Treatment by Caroline Strubbe, a director from the new generation of Flemish filmmakers whose work features in the film programme of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA).

Lisbeth leads workshops and is a movement coach, a choreographic assistant, and an advisor to Maxim Storms, Pieter Ampe, FC Bergman, Charles Pas, Michael De Cock, and Kasper Vandenberghe, to name but a few.

Maarten and Lisbeth are part ‘KVS faces’—an open ensemble of artists, who, each season, help shape and embody KVS's artistic vision.

Maarten Van Cauwenberghe (1976) is a Belgian musician and composer, and one half of Voetvolk’s artistic team. He started playing guitar at age 12, and after graduating from secondary school, he went on to study commercial engineering at the Catholic University of Leuven and then to the Jazzstudio in Antwerp. In 2000, he started to work with Jan Fabre, composing the music for As long as the world needs a warrior’s soul and Je suis sang (2001), made for la Cour d'honneur du Festival d'Avignon. In 2004 he wrote the music for the iconic Quando l’uomo principale è una donna, a dance solo for Lisbeth Gruwez, also marking the beginning of an artistic partnership. In 2006 Maarten Van Cauwenberghe and the dancer and choreographer Lisbeth Gruwez founded Voetvolk.

Van Cauwenberghe collaborated with Tristero, Transquinquennal collectif de théâtre, and Manah Depauw, and composed the music for the renowned piece One Song, Histoire(s) du Théâtre IV by Miet Warlop. He also created the sound for FC Bergman’s Guernica Guernica, which premiered at Ruhrtriennale 2025.

Maarten composed for Yell for Cadel, his own documentary on Cadel Evans, and for Le Part Sauvage, Guérin Van de Vorst’s first feature film. Van Cauwenberghe directed videoclips for A Brand

(“Hammerhead”), Millionaire (“Ballad of Pure Thought”), and Vive la Fête. In 2025, he composed his first soundtrack for television, the tragic comedy Kassa Kassa, created by Paul Baeten, Tom Lenaerts, and Jeroen Mertens, produced by Panenka.

Lisbeth and Maarten are part of the ‘KVS faces’ – an open ensemble of artists, who, each season, help shape and embody KVS's artistic vision.

Alongside Frederik Heuvinck, Elko Blijweert, and Bjorn Eriksson. Maarten is a member of the psychedelic electropunk band Dendermonde, and the guitar trio Hikes with Dag Taeldeman and Rodrigo Fuentealba Palavicino. Between 2002 and 2004, Van Cauwenberghe was a founding member of the band Babyjohn with whom he released two records on the Lowlands label. In 2022 he released his first solo album Little Sleep Big Dream. His entire body of musical work has been released on the independent record label Rotkat Records.

As a commercial engineer by training, Maarten Van Cauwenberghe enjoys engaging in the business matters of cultural activities. In 2016, he won the Prize for Cultural Entrepreneurship, awarded by the Flemish Community.