About
Andrée Chapatte is a performance artist and fascia-therapist based in Brussels. He works from the stage, the page and the treatment table, on one set of questions.
The current work is about masculinities and touch. More precisely: what a body does when it stops performing dominance, and what becomes possible once it has. The most recent piece is The Image Salesman, imagined in 2024 and developed with Baxter Halter since early 2025.
The hands-on work is called Perceptive Pedagogy, a fascia-based practice that treats attention as something you can train. He studied it at the Body Mind Academy with Anja Rottgerkamp between 2022 and 2025.
Andrée's scattering of interests is his method. The body is the constant, and the discipline is whatever the question needs that day.
How he got here
Photo: Domi Savatier
Andrée started out telling stories and drawing images with pencils. As a child he drew cartoon characters while recording his voice into a cheap cassette recorder, and the obsession with comic books carried him from illustration school in Geneva to Amsterdam to study publishing. He flunked a semester for being too stubborn, and then the building he was living in caught fire and burned his illustration tools, library and archives to ash. He stayed, switched from graphic design to the Audio-Visual Department, and kept working.
Amsterdam is also where the real questions started. His favourite nightclub was the queer-punk Frankrijk, where he spent Wednesday nights watching drag shows and drinking cheap beer. Noticing that no one in his cishet circle of musicians and artists had any interest in questioning their own gender, he began researching masculinities, a thread that has run through everything since.
Dissatisfied with how sedentary and digitised illustration had become, he relocated to Brussels and enrolled at the Institut Supérieur d'Art et Chorégraphie (ISAC), having not taken a dance class since he was ten. Trading ink on paper for the body turned out to be less of a departure than it looked. The fascination stayed the same: generating complex emotion with simple tools, and letting the physical do what carefully chosen symbols cannot. In the summer of 2019 he joined the ImPulsTanz festival's DanceWEB programme in Vienna, where the intensity of the international scene convinced him to take men's work seriously and to help build the community around it in Brussels.
In the years since, that men's work has grown in two directions at once: outward into facilitation, with Liminal Brussels, and inward into the body, through the fascia and touch practice he now calls Perceptive Pedagogy.
For treatments, workshops and facilitation, see Liminal Brussels or get in touch.