Highlights of 2020

We would like to look back with you on a particularly eventful year.

For NDT, 2020 was all about new beginnings. Due to the corona crisis, the company was forced to look for new ways to continue to perform its beloved art form: performances in the theater for up to 30 visitors and digital live streams offered a successful alternative! Many thousands of viewers from more than 65 countries have been watching our live streams since September. Furthermore, 2020 marked the start of a new artistic artistic leadership and a new direction for the organization. This was not the season we planned for, but we have decided to embrace it as the season that will define us in unique ways.

On this page we highlight these and other special events from the year 2020.

Our dancers have won prizes the past year: Boston Gallacher won the Piket KunstPrijs for dance, Lydia Bustinduy will receive the 2020 Prize of Merit from the Dansersfonds ’79 Foundation and Chloé Albaret has been nominated for a prestigious Swan.

Read the various news items about all three awards below. Congratulations on your achievements, Boston, Lydia and Chloé!

Unfortunately, not all talent development projects that NDT organizes could take place this year. We are very pleased that, in collaboration with the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, we were able to organize the annual Young Talent Project for the students of the Dance Department.

The annual dance performance Here we live and now, in collaboration with Korzo, has also taken place. In this performance, upcoming choreographers are invited to create a short performance and present it on the Korzo stage. This year the creators were our NDT 1 dancer Lea Ved, former NDT dancer Spencer Dickhaus, and Zahira Suliman.

The Talent Development & Education department is dedicated to organizing events and activities that focus on the experience of dance in every possible way. Also during this strange year, the department has brought all NDtTfans great things.

Teacher Lenna Schouten tells more about the project Uitblinkers!, a project in which participants, young dance talents between 7 and 12 years old, get the opportunity to discover and develop their own unique talent.

At the beginning of 2020, NDT launched the second successful dance app Dreamplay for primary school students in grades 5 and 6. The application, just like the first dance app Parade for pupils from grades 3 and 4, has been developed especially for use on the digibord (digital blackboard) in the classroom.

The engagement and support of our audience is heartwarming. In this unprecedented year, NDT has welcomed many new friends and Fonds NDT participants. This year the company also received a wonderful legacy from Mrs. Edmée Muysken, after her friendship of more than twenty years, she has included NDT in her will to stimulate talent development and innovation for a new generation. Her legacy benefits Open Space. A new project, which NDT is developing for research and free creative development of the dancers and other artists involved. The first edition of Open Space will take place in 2021.