Bio

Curious Orange is a director, designer, poet and performer with 25 years of experience in the performing arts. They are a NYC resident since 2011, originally from Amsterdam. As a designer, they have created costumes for companies like The Trisha Brown Dance Company/Judith Sanchéz-Ruiz, Antonio Ramos and Kathy Westwater. They create fashion performances that include dance, live music, and spoken word. They have collaborated on such performances in NYC with The Illustrious Blacks, Penny Arcade and Yoshiko Chuma, and in Brussels at Tic Tac Art Centre with David Zambrano, Clelia Patrono/Jenn Hutt and dance students from all over the world. 

They are formerly known as Claire Fleury

Artist statement

Curious Orange believes in the power of collaboration across disciplines, to create multidimensional performance art that is speaking to different senses. In these collaborations there is ample room for the influence of movement on costumes, music on movement and lyrics on music; creating a vibrant and living cycle of expression and content, even if associative and abstract in form.

Their poetry is personal, sometimes dark but always accessible and with a sense of self relativation and humor. Often borrowing or spinning off of song lyrics, movie quotes and other pop culture sources, their words are layered collages not unlike their clothing designs.

Their vibrant costumes are designed to evoke joy and fun, while also highlighting CURIOUS’s deep respect for the power of the body in motion. 

Their designs are often created from surprising materials; often found, often existing shapes like socks, tote bags or ice cube trays.

They are constantly looking for new and playful, sustainable ways to approach clothing design, ultimately creating a lifelong homage to the sheer act of dressing up. 

In these collaborative performances, which are CO's alternative to fashion shows, they aim to show clothing and dressing as part of life, not as an unattainable luxury.