Mathilde Cominotto (she/they), artistname Thilde, is a Brussels-based performer and poledancer.

In 2023 she co-founded the first Dutch-based poledance studio and collective in Brussels; Jezebel Studio, where she teaches.

Fascinated by fluidity and contrast, Thilde continuously explores how to move the body along and around a pole in one fluid movement, combining it with strength. She researches the possible contrasts the body can express around the pole and using this to seduce, grab attention or to tell a story.

Although Thilde previously had a negative association with anything to do with sport and exercise, pole dancing changed that. She started pole dancing in 2019 (in Brussels Art&Pole) with "the physical strength of a bag of potatoes" - as they put it themselves - and chronic back pain. But it very quickly grew into one of the most important aspects of their life and advocates that truly anyone can pole dance. Because if she can do it, anyone can!Pole dancing awakened her sensuality and connection with her own body.