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About my background in performing and making

I began performing and making work in my early twenties. Before entering the contemporary field, I started as a competitive Latin American dancer. Within that circuit, an experimental freestyle category — part of the year 2000 Dutch championships — became the site of my first choreography, which won the national title. That early experience of creativity and freedom within form left a lasting imprint and set me on the path as a dancer and maker. Alongside contemporary and modern dance, I worked in physical theatre, mime, performance installations, and street theatre. I have performed in works by many other makers in theatres, museums, public space, and major festivals across the Netherlands. These different contexts shaped a broad understanding of what it means to make performance: how movement communicates, how an audience encounters a work, and how meaning emerges through form, space, and presence. This diversity is visible in the works I made. As you will see, some lean towards dance theatre, others towards contemporary dance, installations or physical theatre. There are fixed choreographies as well as works that rely strongly on improvisation; there are pieces designed for the stage and pieces that are more location-based. What connects them is an ongoing curiosity about what movement can communicate on a universal human level — and what emerges when form meets the present moment through an intelligent, embodied connection.

A selection of performances I made

Happy Once More (2015)

Silhouette (2017)

un | wind (2013)

Strengel (2009)

Het Zal Wel Weer Hoi Wezen (2012)

Ai Jij Ei (2006 - 2008)

Jump (2011)

Slagboomt (2009)

Swijp (2014)

Photos of performing 

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