Apr.
2026
Carmen & Carmen
Moved by the Motion & ntgent
Updated Feb. 2026
Wu Tsang / Moved by the Motion
Wu Tsang is an award-winning visual artist and theatre maker who lives and works in London and Zurich. Together with the collective Moved by the Motion, Tsang is creating the performance “Carmen & Carmen” (working title) at NTGent during the 25-26 season.
Moved by the Motion is a multidisciplinary collective of artists who play with language, movement, image and sound. The group was founded in 2013 in LA and is internationally renowned. Its members are sought after for projects all over the world. After a six-year residency at Schauspielhaus Zürich (where they first explored the character of Carmen), the ensemble returns to the roots of its working methods for “Carmen & Carmen”: collective creation, iterative composition and the collision of genres.
Carmen & Carmen is directed by Wu Tsang, co-founder of Moved by The Motion. Tsang is an American performer, director and award-winning filmmaker whose work has been shown in the most prestigious museums (MoMA New York, Tate Modern London, etc.). In 2018, she won the MacArthur Genius Grant and since early 2025, she has been a lecturer at Harvard University. Tsang is known for dismantling and breaking through racial and gender-related stereotypes and narratives.
According to the renowned art magazine Art Review, Wu Tsang is one of the hundred most influential people in the contemporary art world. In 2025, performances of Moved by the Motion were shown at the Festival d'Automne in Paris and at Tate Modern in London, where Tsang curated the important exhibition Theatre Picasso in the same year.