I started dancing when I was 4 years old, and decided that I wanted to make my profession out of it by the age of 10. I joined the preschool academy of dance at the age of 12, and studied at the Amsterdams Academy of Performing Arts. I left school in my first year of the college, because I got offered a job in a musical. And from there on enrolled in to three more musicals, before starting my own group with other dancer friends.

Meanwhile I started to teach next to my work as a performer in 2003, at the same academy where I followed my own education. It turned out I had a natural talent in teaching, and it’s a big joy-bringer for me.  In 2017 I officially got my teachers ‘bevoegdheid.

Because I dropped out of school by the end of my first year, I never got to finish my anatomy class, one of my favourite classes at school. I had a very passionate teacher, who with his imagery and vivid stories, made the complexibility of anatomy, logical and understandable for us dancers.
In 2010  I started a study in sports massage, to learn anatomy and physiology, and become a better teacher in dance. It turned out I was a good sport massage therapist by the end of it and started my own (new) business as a masseur next to the teaching. The balance of these two works really well for me.

I’m my own brand. My business is me and what I bring to my clients; I work with the human body: physicality, movement, muscles, flexibility.

In my sports massage therapy, by physically holding on to the anatomy and manipulating it into it’s efficiency. I work with bodies via dance in teaching and performing. I work with bodies via theatre, being what the body language brings, and shares, within interaction and performance.

I want to expand my business into individual, bespoke, all round health therapisy, specialising in the connection between the body and mind and health.

Bodies don’t lie.

tips

Dance film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UK9QXGIcbQ&list=PL8ska1q6IBa558ILGYN211V7uXEdlMU3e

contact

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dian-knigge-ijkhout-55b946b1/

Website: https://www.dianijkhout.com/

Website: https://maakwerkplaats.nl/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXtem8w9JO6MySKHl2PLfhw?view_as=subscriber

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