Dear all, we have some plans for this summer!! It is showtime!It’s a plan of Laili and me after doing a few choreography courses, to really engage the students in promoting their passion and their hobby and with it our dance studio. We want THEM to show what partnerdance is! We focus mainly on zouk and bachata. Most people know … Read More
BLOCK YOUR AGENDA’s! The first true DA Dance Festival is coming up! DA participated in a number of festivals organising the zouk room, but this is the first festival where we show what DA Dance Studio is and what it stands for: The values of DA and the bridge that we see between all dances: solo and partner dances as … Read More
1 Feb – 8 Feb 2020, we have lessons and also the winter escape in Fuerteventura 24 Feb – 1 March 2020 NO LESSONS, bootcamps parties and embodying weekends might be planned during these dates 24 April – 2 May 2020 NO LESSONS, bootcamps parties and embodying weekends might be planned during these dates 27 June – 4 July 2020 … Read More
Universal partner dance is my Magnum Opus, my big passion. I firmly believe that before spoken or written language, we used a language that consisted of sound and a language of the body. Dance is the combination of these languages. Those basal or underlying layers of communications were probably the reason why we were able to develop culture and subsequently … Read More
The bodywash-method The Embodying Weekends (EW) are really intensive. The whole idea is to really get everything you learn into your body. It’s like a brainwash method but then with your body: a bodywash-method. So it’s not about learning with your brain, but learning with your body. You are locked in here for 10 hours a day and you can … Read More
But now you are very rich! Very rich! Unfortunately not in money. The school is of course very stable and doing quite well. The company is a success. The richness comes more from the people I live with, i work with and I teach to. That is very satisfying. On top of that there are the trips to foreign countries … Read More
DANCEGASM A dancegasm, what is that!? A dancegasm is what most people would describe as a dance where you loose track of time and space and after three or six dances (you loose count) you suddenly wake up and you think: ‘Wow what just happened??’ It’s a dance where you can let go of everything and where you feel totally … Read More
Willem, you recently made an interesting post on Facebook. It was about genderneutrality. What do you mean by genderneutrality? It doesn’t mean everybody should be without gender, but it means that all the roles,etiquettes and behaviours that normally are ascribed or attached to a gender, we could also let go. In short it means that we stop seeing each other … Read More
