About me

As a child and adolescent I took frequent, intensive classes in classical ballet until it became clear that my body didn’t meet the conditions needed to become a classical dancer. I then chose for something far away from dancing: I trained as a speech and language therapist and for many years worked with great pleasure as such.

Meanwhile there was this itch for dance. I love early music and that brought me in contact with Renaissance and Baroque dance, in which I found my destiny: a combination of research and dancing, as a teacher as well as a performer and choreographer.

Other dance styles kept their fascination for me though, and when in December 2014 I happened to read an article about Dance for Health, something sparked again.

I successfully finished my training as a Dance for Health teacher with that organisation and Andrew Greenwood, and started my own organisation inBeweging in Groningen in February 2016. inBeweging offers dance and movement classes for people suffering from Parkinson’s, rheumatic disorders and all kinds of motor impairments.

The interest in Renaissance and Baroque dance has been decreasing over the past years and inBeweging suffers from the fact that in the Netherlands dancing with people for whom this is, physically speaking, not obvious, is still very much a marginal thing. Yet neuropsychologists all over the world stress ever more how important dance is, for the brain ánd the body. I’d like to add: as well as for the heart and soul!

Time for something different, and meanwhile I’ve found a lot of other things to do: see this website. For me these feel like a third career which is far from being the least of the three.