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Inge graduated from Codarts; the Rotterdam Dance Academy (University of the Arts in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands) in 1997, where she specialized in contemporary dance, jazz dance, African dance and education. After her studies, she got granted with a scholarship to specialize in African dance in West-Africa. This allowed her to train with ‘The National Dance Company of Ghana’, ‘Ballet National Djoliba’ in Guinea, the University of Arts in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast (l’Insaac), as well as with local dance groups, such as Yelemba d’Abidjan (Ivory Coast) and ‘Ballet Basikolo’ in Conakry (Guinea). She undertook more study trips to expand her knowledge and skills in African dance and ‘Dunham’, in Ghana (August ’99), New York (September ‘01), Guinea (July’02) and in the “Method Acogny" by Germaine Acogny, in Amsterdam (September ’04) Before graduating, Inge started teaching at the Rotterdam Dance Academy which she continued to do until she moved to Perth in 2008. Since then, she has been a versatile, freelance performer, and choreographer in multiple contemporary- and non-western dance groups and projects. In addition, she expanded her dance vocabulary by learning salsa and mambo. For more than ten years she has performed, both in the Netherlands and internationally with contemporary, African, and Latin dance companies. She has been a member of ‘Theatergroep Stout’ (Youth dance company) for 3 years, and a freelance performer at: ‘Footworks’ (fusion between mambo and African dance performed at European stages); ‘Global Village’ (multi-disciplinary; live music, dance and painting of the various continents, NL); ‘Tic d'Luna’ (oriental- and African dance with live music and vj, NL); various Latin groups ('Havana 5', 'Salseros Dance Company', and 'Los Intocables', representing The Netherlands at the Puerto Rico Salsa Congress); and at many international festivals, congresses and events. Inge has also choreographed several works in which she used her broad dance training and her extensive experience in working with musicians, amonst others in: ‘Earthwise’ (live music- and dance composition with 40 dancers of the Rotterdam Dance Academy); ‘Mi Afo’ (performance project with live music and dance for Surinam youngsters about the history of slavery in Surinam and The Netherlands); and ‘Global Village’. She loves working with live music, and in her work she uses her extensive knowledge of both Western and non-Western dance forms to educate, encourage and inspire her students. |