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Claire Fleury / Curious Orange
Amsterdam/New York

Claire Fleury / Curious Orange is a costume designer, performing artist, and director, working in the performing arts professionally for more than 25 years. 

Drawing from their background in theatre and dance, C continues to work on creating alternative sustainable fashion shows in the form of dance, music and spoken word performances. They have created such performances in NYC at Dixon Place and Judson Church for Movement Research, in Brussels at Tic Tac Art Centre and at La Encartada Moda in Bilbao, Spain.

She has created dance costumes for the Trisha Brown Dance Company, david zambrano, yoshiko chuma, kathy westwater and many others. 

Her vibrant costumes are designed to evoke joy while highlighting her deep respect for the power of the body in motion. 

C is always looking for new, playful, fun and sustainable ways to help express, empower and provoke.

Manipulating fabrics, incorporating existing shapes, deconstructing classic garment structures and rebuilding them into something new is part of that game.

C’s garments have no gender assignment and are custom made for all sizes, seasons and occasions.

C is currently teaching workshops focused on fashion as performance. She teaches these workshops in New York at Movement Research, in Brussels at Tic Tac Art Centre and P.A.R.T.S., and in Berlin at B12 and Tanzfabrik.

C has been teaching garment construction at Kentucky College of Art and Design, upcycling workshops for teens at the Dorril Initiative and at demolicion, brooklyn.

They were a 2025 artist in residence at LMCC on Governors Island, New York City.