Teaching method, vision and resume

I have been teaching since 1996 and I still do so with great pleasure.  Since there are so many different kinds of people it’s always a challenge to find the best approach and the correct information to transfer. What works for one does not work for the other.

It’s an honour to learn from each student. they enable me to deepen my knowledge and they challenge me to keep on evolving. Not one class or workshop is the same, it’s a continuous study and search to find the most optimal ways of teaching.

As a teacher I carry out an individual approach,handing out information that helps the students get further in their process. I constantly search for a way to find an entry that is suitable for the people I work with.

I often use everyday life examples to explain the technical elements out of wich dance is build. I combine the dance vocabulary with these ‘normal’ situations,this creates an immediate understanding of the matter at hand, so we don’t get lost in just technical or conceptual talking.

I am a ‘do-er’. This means I encourage my students not to give up: to keep on trying and practicing. If you stop then you don’t evolve. Work on your level, find your borders and then work on the edge of your borders. I find that if you train in a motivated and healthy way you will learn the things you first thought impossible.

I am a regular teacher in various modern dance techniques,I teach professional and non professional dance classes: floorwork/fly high classes,improvisation classes ,workshops/dance-education/ masterclasses/custumized improvisation based workshops/intensives. if you are interested in a class or a workshop dont hesitate to contact me.

Employers:

Codarts Rotterdam                                             (floor/fly high  and  floor/fly high improv)

Marameo Berlin / open pro classes                 (floor/fly high)

DOX  : theatre group Utrecht                           (dance for actos/physical theatre. improvisation

                                                                               and research weeks on partnering and improvisation)

Station Zuid/ open pro classes                         (floor/fly high  and floor/fly high improv)

Fontys academy for arts Tilburg                      (floor/fly high  and improvisation)

Dance festival warschau: open pro                  (floor/fly high   and   improvisation  +  floor/fly high improv)

Royal academy for dance Antwerp                  (floor/fly high)

Rijnijssel Academy for dance.                           (floor/fly high)

Rijnijssel Arnhem: Academy for actors          (improvisation and costume made improvisation workshops)

Pre prof. dance education Enschede              (modern class)

Buitenkunst (customized workshops) (improvisation) (research weeks) (art weeks for toddlers)

Hunnerberg Nijmegen (juvenile prison)       (customized workshops/choreography)

Various dance schools for amateurs