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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 Sin Patron and local performers.

In these collaborative performances, which are Curious's alternative to fashion shows, they aim to show clothing and dressing up as an act of resistance as well as a medium of expression.
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 contact lense containers.
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.

Curious’s ready to wear designs have been sold at Patricia Field, Pop Souk and other curated pop up events. Her costume designs for dance were positively written about in The NY Times, Village Voice, Dance Enthusiast and other publications. 
She was one of four costume designers honored at the Bessie Awards in 2018
She was in two residencies in Brussels at Tic Tac Art Centre, at Bates Dance Festival in Maine and currently on Governors Island NYC through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Centre (LMCC) 
Curious’s Theatre productions have been supported by the Dutch Fund for Performing Arts(NFPK), the Dutch Consulate in NYC, the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts(AFK), the Lira fund for writing, VSB Bank and the Prins Bernhard Culture fund of the Netherlands. 
Curious has been teaching garment construction at Kentucky College of Art and Design, upcycling workshop for teens at the Dorril Initiative, fashion and performance at Movement Research NYC and Tic Tac Art Centre in Brussels.