Mouna Laroussi
As a dancer and choreographer Mouna Laroussi embodies her bi-cultural Moroccan - Dutch roots in renewing crossover dance styles.
As a dancer and choreographer Mouna Laroussi embodies her bi-cultural Moroccan - Dutch roots in renewing crossover dance styles.
Michael O’Connor is choreographer, performer and teacher, who lives and works in Vienna. He has a background in Modern Dance (Utah, 2005), experimental choreography and is a graduate of DAS choreography Amsterdam (formerly AMCh) in 2015.
Junadry Leocaria is dancer, maker and teacher who performed with dance company ISH and Don’t Hit Mama. In 2009 she founded, together with six other female dancers from the urban scene, Femme Lethal. Junadry is initiator in the Sharing Practice.
Carolien Dokter (NL, 1957)has been trained as a dancer and studied for a year studied mime in Paris. At the present she is a dance teacher and coach at the HKU and active as photographer.
Anne Suurendonk (May 6th 1988, Amsterdam) graduated from the Jazz Musical Dance department, at the Amsterdam School of Performing Arts in 2010.
Nina Wijnmaalen (NL, 1980) received her BA of Fine Arts at the art academy in Groningen in 2007 (photography and video). After her study she joined several exhibitions.
Clara Amaral was born in Fundão, Portugal. She studied dance in Lisbon for 5 years and after that she came to the Netherlands.
Jochen Stechmann studied mathematics and physics in Hamburg and contemporary dance in Tilburg.
Sara Wiktorowicz is a choreographer, teacher, and performer. She works together with Francesca Foscarini and Dinanda Luttikhedde.
Kathrin Gramelsberger (1979 München) came, at the age of seventeen, to Amsterdam to study Jazztheater and Showmusical.
Guilherme Miotto made one of the choreographies for The New Factory, a coproduction of Dansgroep Amsterdam Dansmakers.
Michael Schumacher made one of the choreographies for The New Factory, a coproduction of Dansgroep Amsterdam Dansmakers.
Jagoda Bobrowska was born in Pozna, Poland in 1988. In 2011 she graduated from the Choreography Department at the Rotterdam Dance Academy.
Dance Company Project Sally makes dance performances for young people and anyone young at heart.
Matteo Graziano (Torino, 1984) is a choreographer and artistic assistant with academic background, with a strong interest in the energetic states of the performing body.
Gabriella Maiorino (1971, Italy) gratuaded at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. She gained in-depth knowledge about the many approaches of modern and contemporary dance.
The Argentine choreographer, dancer and teacher Ezequiel Sanucci graduated with the highest qualifications of term at the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.
Ola Maciejewska (1984, Poland) graduated from dance academies in both Poland and The Netherlands.
Emilie Gallier is choreographer, researcher, director of the PØST Cie. Her work probes ways to expand boundaries by using scores, senses, audience participation and collaboration.
Tamar Shahinian is Armenian Palestinian, she lived in Kuwait for 10 years. In The Netherlands she attended the Fontys dansacademie in Tilburg.
Hillary Blake Firestone (1974 / USA) received her BFA (cum laude) in Dance Performance and Composition from SUNY-Purchase in New York in 1998.
China's most upcoming modern dance company. Dansmakers Amsterdam is co-producer of TAO Dance Theater.
Marie-Rose Mayele (1974) grew up in Brussels. Since 1997 she has been dancing, singing and acting in pieces for youngsters and kids in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Christiane da Cunha initially studied communication and design in Brazil and Fine Arts and Photography in Italy. After a postgraduate study at Dasarts in Amsterdam...
Johnny Schoofs (Belgium) is a Rotterdam based dancer, choreographer and movement teacher. He graduated from the performing arts department at the Rotterdam Dance Academy.
Tommie got his initital dance training at Fontys Dansacademie Tilburg. Afterwards he trained at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie, De Theaterschool Amsterdam..
Joaquín Sánchez Guerrero, spanish, is a dancer and choreographer who lives in Barcelona. He graduated in Codarts, Rotterdam.
Pascal ‘Apache’ Busch started b-boying (break dancing) in the early eighties. In the nineties he founded the group ‘Turn it Loose’ and became a professional.
Khouloud Yassine is a choreographer, a dancer and an actress. She graduated in Dramatic Arts at the Lebanese University and Performing Art and Choreography at University of Saint-Denis, Paris VIII (BA).
Dorit Weintal is an Italian-Israeli director, choreographer and dancer.
Robin Berkelmans (1976) followed the dance teacher department at the Dance Academy in Tilburg. He left this unfinished and chose after two years to follow his own path.
Isabella Steenbergen is writer and theater journalist for NRC Handelsblad and NRC NEXT. Before her writing career, she danced for several choreographers
Giulia Mureddu (IT/NL) studied 'Modern Theater Dance' in Amsterdam
Rafael Zielinski (1977) was born in Poland. In 1986, at the age of nine, he immigrated to Germany.
As performer, choreographer and teacher Vincent has worked for different choreographers, directors and festivals, theatres, dance events, schools and commercial employers.
Michael Jahoda is a teacher, dancer and choreographer from New York. As a young dancer Jahoda received a full scholarship to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center in New York City.
Sheyda has a passion for choreography, theatre and the so-called 'urban culture'. She is an autodidact 'urban' dancer.
Sirah Foighel Brutmann (Israel/ Denmark) graduated from P.A.R.T.S in 2008.
Choreographers Yuri Bongers and Anja Reinhardt work together under Vloeistof. This company strives for surprising and innovative choreographies.
Raúl Saldarriaga is a dancer and choreographer. He has won several choreographic prizes in Bogotá, Colombia.
Keren Levi (Israël, 1972) was trained in and danced four years for the school of Kibbutz Dance Company conducted by Yehudit Arnon.
Tap dancing to Marije Nie is a symbiosis of movement and sound, in which the rhythm dictates the movement and the movement creates the sound.
In 2009 he graduated from the renowned School for New Dance Development (SNDO), Amsterdam.
Georgia Vardarou (Greece) graduated from the State School of Dance in Athens in 2004 and from P.A.R.T.S. in 2008.
Christian D. Guerematchi was born in Maribor/Slovenia where he finished his ballet education and afterwards became a member of the national ballet.
Muhanad Rasheed is the artistic director of the company Iraqis Bodies.
Ederson Rodriques Xavier hails from Brazil to Holland, after he danced with Quasar Dance Company from 1988 till 1993.
Shaymaa Shoukry is from Egypt, born in 1984. She studied Visual Arts and Theatre in the American University in Cairo, and Modern Dance in the Cairo Opera House School.
Daniel Hayward initially studied for a Masters degree in Social Anthropology. Once completed, he decided to switch to dance.
Sacha Steenks (1971, Netherlands) received her dance training at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
Bas Dorlandt has completed the Dance Academy in Tilburg in 2000. As a modern dancer he was involved in different productions and companies.
Anani Dodji Sanouvi, has been hailed for his ability to assimilate different traditions into his own dynamic dance style. Born in Togo, brought up in Gabon and having lived in Senegal.
Inari Salmivaara (Finland, '78), studied dance at the Conservatory in Turku, the Finnish National Balletschool and graduated at School for New Dance Development.
Kalpana Raghuraman (1975, the Netherlands) has been initiated in the tradition of Bharatanatyam by her mother and teacher Sharadha Raghuraman.
Various choreographers working at Dansmakers Amsterdam before 2009
Gianni Grot (NL, 1988) began his international career as a dancer at Avant Garde Dance Company. a London based company pushing the boundaries of hip-hop and contemporary dance. After his impressive role in So You Think You Can Dance in 2011, he focuses more and more on the making of. With his own company Gianni Cave & Company, he searches for new collaborations between musicians and other artists.
Spitfire Company is an artistic company that includes works of physical and dance theatre. It is currently one of the most progressive ensembles of author theatre in the Czech Republic, under the artistic direction of Petr Boháč (CZ). During the Makers Intensive, there will be a new collaboration with the Czech choreographer and dancer Pavel Mašek (CZ).
Samuel Feldhandler is a french dancer/choreographer who graduated with a Bachelor of contemporary dance from Amsterdam (Modern Theatre Dance - de Theaterschool) in June 2015. Being from a family of musicians, his works as a maker often share a musical foundation.
Niels Weijer (1988) is an Amsterdam based choreographer who has been creating work since 2012 autonomous, as well as in collaboration with other choreographers and visual artists. After he created his solo ’Ein Tag‘ (2012) with which he performed in the festival Uneven, his journey as a choreographer started.
