Awards & Publications

AWARDS

  • 1982 Artist Prize from the Municipality of Utrecht
  • 2006 Award of Merit from the Dansersfonds ’79
  • 2012 Honorary Member Gesellschaft für Zeitgenössischen Tanz, NRW
  • 2015 Honorary pin Stichting Circuscultuur Nederland
 
PUBLICATIONS
  • 1978 – 1985: Dance critic Utrechts Nieuwsblad
  • 1981 – 1985: Founder and editor-in-chief of the Danskrant, a monthly dance and dance-theater magazine
  • Employee at the monthly Music and Dance magazine
  • Editor-in-chief of the dance year books 1983 – 1984 and 1984 – 1985, published by Gottmer Uitgeverij, Haarlem
  • Co-editor of the Dansnota (memorandum) of the Province of North Holland, 1983
  • Co-editor of the memorandum Towards a balanced dance policy of the Federation of Artists’ Associations, 1984
  • Editor-in-chief and translator of the book Ballet Class by the Royal Academy of Dancing
  • 1985 –1987: First Editor of NOTES, a new monthly dance magazine published by the Netherlands Institute for Dance
  • Literary editor and advisor for the Dutch edition of the book Dance Workshop published by Becht, Amsterdam 1987
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the monthly German-English magazine Ballett International, Cologne, 1991-1992
  • Editor-in-chief of the book Hans van Manen published by Meulenhoff Uitgeverij on the occasion of the “Hans van Manen – Central Choreographer” program of the Holland Festival 1992
  • Co-editor of the catalog at the Exhibition of Herman Sorgeloos, “ROSAS ALBUM” on the work of the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, 1993 Theater Instituut Nederland, Amsterdam
  • Laudatio Deutscher Tanzpreis 1995 for Pina Bausch, Essen, February 1995
  • Position paper Tanzhaus Berlin, a profile on the future of dance for the Senat für Wissenschaft, 
  •   Forschung und Kultur, Berlin, February 1997
  • Laudatio for the presentation of Kunstpreis des Landschaftsverbandes Osnabrücker Land 2004 to the choreographer and artistic director Gregor Zöllig, 24 June 2004
  • Keynote Speaker on the occasion of the foundation of the Ständigen Konferenz Tanz on March 12, 2006 at the Max Liebermann Haus in Berlin
  • Laudation for Henrietta Horn on the occasion of the Künstlerinnenpreis 2008 of Nordrhein-Westfalen on 28 August 2008 at the Capitol Theater in Düsseldorf during the International Tanzmesse