Biography
When I was 5 years old my sister started line dancing, followed one year later by my mother and stepfather.
I used to go with them, but was always rather bored and tried to find an easy chair to sleep in.
Sometimes I was so bored that I tried to join in the line dance movements.
At long last I joined the club of line dancers. I didn’t like it much but it was better than doing nothing which I usually did.
Contrary to everybody’s expectations I started to like it very much. I was 6 years old
when I danced with Corina Beelen. When I was 7 I was ready for my first competition, although I wasn’t a real dancer. I was only in it for the fun.
There were more small competitions in which I took part, usually with disappointing results.
The turning-point came when I was 8 years old: suddenly the feeling of wanting more than being just another competitor came over me.
My dancing improved and improved, and I started to win now and again. That’s how I grew into it and stretched my limits continually.
When I was 13 I started to dance with Wally en Ria van ‘t Hul, who in a very short time prepared me for the World Championship in Veldhoven, The Netherlands in 2002 when I was 14 years old. I won the silver medal overall !
From that moment on dancing became serious business for me, and I also took up Latin dancing for one year which helped me on my way enormously.
Together with Suzanne Halfers I entered two competitions Latin dancing. When I was 16 I went to Budel to get a taste of classical dancing at Carla de Groot´s.This appeared to be a great challenge to me and I opened another door on my dancing career.
It was a huge change for me. Ballet has helped me tremendously in all my dancing and has changed my outlook on dancing and also on the world outside dancing.At 17 I auditioned for the Fontys Dance Academy and MBO Dancing in Sittard.
I was accepted in Sittard and ,unfortunately, had to leave Carla de Groot’s school.
After six months I found out that I wanted to be a DANCER and that the school was not the right one for me,
so I decided to quit and try again for the Fontys Dance Academy in Tilburg. At last I was successful.
I gained a lot of experience there e.g. at the Fontys dance Festival, and I was fortunate to be able to dance in the opera La Traviate in Zürich, Switzerland.It didn’t turn out to be the right choice either, so I went back to the MBO Dancing, this time in Haarlem. I also moved house to Haarlem. I am still at the MBO.In 2008 I also started taking part in Hip Hop Freestyle competitions, and so far this pans out very well.
The World Championship Line Dance was my last line dance competition: I decided that line dancing is not my future.
I used to go with them, but was always rather bored and tried to find an easy chair to sleep in.
Sometimes I was so bored that I tried to join in the line dance movements.
At long last I joined the club of line dancers. I didn’t like it much but it was better than doing nothing which I usually did.
Contrary to everybody’s expectations I started to like it very much. I was 6 years old
when I danced with Corina Beelen. When I was 7 I was ready for my first competition, although I wasn’t a real dancer. I was only in it for the fun.
There were more small competitions in which I took part, usually with disappointing results.
The turning-point came when I was 8 years old: suddenly the feeling of wanting more than being just another competitor came over me.
My dancing improved and improved, and I started to win now and again. That’s how I grew into it and stretched my limits continually.
When I was 13 I started to dance with Wally en Ria van ‘t Hul, who in a very short time prepared me for the World Championship in Veldhoven, The Netherlands in 2002 when I was 14 years old. I won the silver medal overall !
From that moment on dancing became serious business for me, and I also took up Latin dancing for one year which helped me on my way enormously.
Together with Suzanne Halfers I entered two competitions Latin dancing. When I was 16 I went to Budel to get a taste of classical dancing at Carla de Groot´s.This appeared to be a great challenge to me and I opened another door on my dancing career.
It was a huge change for me. Ballet has helped me tremendously in all my dancing and has changed my outlook on dancing and also on the world outside dancing.At 17 I auditioned for the Fontys Dance Academy and MBO Dancing in Sittard.
I was accepted in Sittard and ,unfortunately, had to leave Carla de Groot’s school.
After six months I found out that I wanted to be a DANCER and that the school was not the right one for me,
so I decided to quit and try again for the Fontys Dance Academy in Tilburg. At last I was successful.
I gained a lot of experience there e.g. at the Fontys dance Festival, and I was fortunate to be able to dance in the opera La Traviate in Zürich, Switzerland.It didn’t turn out to be the right choice either, so I went back to the MBO Dancing, this time in Haarlem. I also moved house to Haarlem. I am still at the MBO.In 2008 I also started taking part in Hip Hop Freestyle competitions, and so far this pans out very well.
The World Championship Line Dance was my last line dance competition: I decided that line dancing is not my future.
Live for dancing and dancing will live for you.