Discover the speakers of the Inspiration Day 2024

On the Inspiration Day we zoom in upon four inspiring case studies from different perspectives from the dance field. Discover the speakers here!

1. Danaé Bosman (BE)

   Danaé Bosman is a belgian choreographer and dancer. She has worked as a dancer in various projects by Randi De Vlieghe/hetpaleis, fABULEUS, Andros Zins-Browne, Theater De Spiegel, Sylvie Huysman, Tuning People and Filip Van Huffel/Retina Dance Company. In 2016, Danaé co-founded, together with choreographer Dafne Maes, LAP: a contemporary dance company with a passion for education.

   Since 2020, Danaé explores her own fascination about (im)perfect bodies. This resulted in the visual performance ON- . Inclusion and education play an important role in the creation process of Danaé's artistic work for a young audience.

2. Gezelschap 155 (NL)

   155 (Onefivefive) is a collective of creative friends brought together by a shared passion for dance, movement forms, music, film, comedy, and art.

   The artists all started their love and career for dance with breakdancing. Hip-hop offers them of all the ‘already existing’ dance styles, the most freedom. That’s why in one form or another, this style will always find a way back into their work.

3. Cath James (Little Big Dance, UK)

   Cath James is artistic director of South East Dance, lead partner on Little Big Dance, which is launched in 2019 by South East Dance, in partnership with DanceEast, Take Art and Yorkshire Dance. Little Big Dance empowers dance artists to develop the specialist skills and experience needed to make captivating and diverse dance work for and with under five-year-old children and their families.

   In her forty-year career in dance, she performed in many different companies. After she retired from fulltime performing, she was active as company and tour manager for Siobhan Davies Company (which she co-founded) and director of dance for Take Art, before she joined South East Dance. James is also active as curator for Dance festivals and writes for international dance magazines. In 1994, she co-created the UK’s first dance information and directory website danceservice.co.uk.

4. Mijke Harmsen

   More information soon.