Photo: Siska Vandecasteele
Belgian musician, composer and co-founder of Voetvolk Maarten Van Cauwenberghe graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven and the Jazzstudio in Antwerp. In 2000 he started working with Jan Fabre, creating music for As long as the world needs a warrior’s soul (2000), Je suis sang (2001) and Quando l’uomo principale è una donna (2004), and establishing a partnership with dancer Lisbeth Gruwez. Van Cauwenberghe has collaborated with a number of acclaimed artists and composed music for Guérin Van de Vorst’s feature film Le Part Sauvage, and for his own documentary Yell for Cadel on Cadel Evans. He also performs as a DJ and member of the psychedelic electropunk band Dendermonde. In 2016 he was awarded the Flemish Community Prize for Cultural Entrepreneurship.
