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
List of dates there are NO LESSONS –6,7,8, 26 February– –29,31 March– -28,29 April– –5,24, 28 May(no bess lessons, yes, Laili lessons)– –10, 28,30 June– — 1 July — — 1,4,5,7,8,11 August — These are instead of the the holidays in previous years. In most cases you will still have 4 weeks of lessons in those months, in the cases … 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
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 where I teach and visit. But … 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
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 as a woman,or a man, or a gay or straight person, a sexual or a transsexual person, but as … Read More
