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Curious Orange aka Claire Fleury 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, in Brussels at Tic Tac Art Centre with David Zambrano, Clelia Patrono/Jenn Hutt and dance students from all over the world, and in Bilbao Spain with local performers.

In these collaborative performances, which are CO's alternative to fashion shows, they aim to show clothing and dressing as an act of resistance and protest as well as a personal manifesto on how one perceives the world.

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, 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.