Library officer & scientific staff member in the Resounding Library cluster
Sigrid T’Hooft joined the ‘Resounding Libraries’ as a research collaborator in 2022 and has been a guest teacher at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles since 2022. After her studies in musicology at KU Leuven, she was associated for nearly twenty years with the Flemish radio (VRT), first as a collaborator in the digitisation of the sound archive and music library, and later as an editor of classical music programmes (Radio 3/Klara).
During her studies she began intensive research into early dance, resulting in a Master’s thesis on French Renaissance dance music. She founded the dance ensembles ‘Passo Ostinato’, ‘Fontainebleau’ and ‘Corpo Barocco’, with which she has developed numerous programmes over the years. Since the 1990s she has increasingly made a name for herself as an opera director, with an emphasis on historically informed performance practice. Her staging of Handel‘s opera Radamisto in 2009 brought her to international attention and led to a freelance career as a choreographer and opera and theatre director. Over the past fifteen years she has built a distinguished career across Europe, staging more than thirty-five operas and plays, and numerous mise-en-geste concerts.
Sigrid T’Hooft has taught baroque movement to singers in the early music departments of the conservatories of Leipzig, The Hague and Basel (Schola Cantorum), as well as early dance at numerous conservatories in Belgium and abroad. She is widely invited welcomed as a guest professor of historical dance and period drama.
