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Arno Schuitemaker

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After Arno Schuitemaker (Amsterdam, 1976) completed the Aerospace Engineering programme at the TU Delft, he embarked on a new path. He started a contemporary dance programme at the Fontys Dansacademie and took his degree in choreography in 2007. Schuitemaker has since earned a place for himself as one of the most remarkable makers of the new generation. His work was featured in more than twenty countries. He was awarded the award for most impressive dance production by the Dutch Association of Theatre and Concert Hall Directorates VSCD in October 2019 for The Way You Sound Tonight. From the jury report: ‘The Way You Sound Tonight from Arno Schuitemaker is one of those theatre experiences you wish would go on forever. (..) Schuitemaker is able to make all the different elements fit together.’ The piece premiered at the Holland Festival a year earlier.

Both the German magazine tanz and the English magazine Dance Europe called him ‘one of the leading contemporary dance makers in the Netherlands.’ In 2022, Schuitemaker worked with Pierre Audi and Jean Kalman on the opera Orphée et Eurydice (from Gluck) in Florence.

Training

Technische Universiteit Delft

Fontys Dansacademie in Tilburg

 

Major work

2012 The Fifteen Project | DUET

2014 I is an Other

2015 Together_till the end

2015 WHILE WE STRIVE 

2016 I will wait for you

2017 If You Could See Me Now

2019 The Way You Sound Tonight (Holland Festival)

2021 O S C A R

 

Awards

2019 Most impressive dance production - VSCD dance prizes for The Way You Sound Tonight

2016 2nd jury prize [re]connaissance for WHILE WE STRIVE

Past events

  1. 2022

    dance |Westergas - Transformatorhuis
  2. 2018

    dance |Nationale Opera & Ballet