about | Bloom Project

✾ about

BLOOM Project is a Brussels-based office specialized in accompanying artistic creations in the performing arts field.

BLOOM Project – Live Arts production office – is founded on the idea of long-term support for companies and their works.
Rooted in a commitment to sustainable growth in the long run,
nurturing artistic biodiversity, the blooming of aesthetics, and the
emergence of new narratives.

Designed as a tool at the service of artists, BLOOM Project offers
tailored support at every stage of theatrical and/or choreographic
projects: development support, strategic thinking, creative production, administrative structuring, executive production, touring logistics, communication, and distribution.

✾ team

Stéphanie Barboteau - General & artistic coordination

In her previous life, Stéphanie Barboteau lived in France (Bordeaux, Paris) and taught literature in secondary schools.

In 2011, she moved to Brussels and began a Master's degree in Cultural Management at ULB. She then went on to work for a number of different organizations, including the Festival International des Brigittines in Brussels, for two years running, first as a producer and then as communications manager. She discovered dance, and forged relationships with a number of companies.

She was then hired by the Audience production office, which also manages the Manufacture/collectif contemporain in Avignon, where she worked from 2013 to 2015.

In 2016, she became director of the office, and reshaped the project. She then created BLOOM Project, conceived as an office for the development of live shows, based on the idea of sustainable support for companies in the long term, whatever the form of their projects... Many new collaborations are born.

Today, BLOOM Project is made up of 4 people, and accompanies and represents 8 companies in the fields of theater, dance and young audiences, as well as in their multiple variations: participative projects, in situ projects, workshops...

Ilona Gatard - Production / Tours

After studying Performing Arts in France (Toulouse, Reims), Ilona decided to move to Brussels in 2021 for the quality of its cultural scene.

She began working with BLOOM Project as a production assistant and is now in charge of productions.

Yseult Gay - Communication / Promotion

After studying at the École de Recherche Graphique and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Yseult worked as an assistant in a contemporary art gallery in Antwerp, as well as a studio manager for an artist duo. Deeply inspired and moved by performing arts, she joined the BLOOM team in 2022 in charge of communication and promotion.

Céline Zwick - Production intern

After completing higher education in audiovisual production techniques at ESRA Paris with a specialization in cinematography, Céline worked as a camera assistant in France on a variety of projects.

Currently undergoing a career change, she has resumed her studies in a work-study program at EFP in Event Management and is doing a tour production internship with the BLOOM Project team.