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Biography
Saraja de Jonge
Dance Theater Maker & Performer
Contemporary dance
Saraja de Jonge
Dance Theater Maker & Performer
Contemporary dance
Saraja de Jonge
"Saraja gives movement a meaning. Visual, abstract and as a metaphor of an event and an emotion.”
Saraja studied contemporary dance at the Center for New Dance Development (EDDC/CNDO) HKA in Arnhem and also studied Japanese Butoh Dance and mime in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. She developed as a versatile artist.
She makes dance work for specific locations or occasions.
Most recent work is the intense dance performance "Reflection",
danced in the Gymnastics Hall in Ellecom based on the charged history of this place, created on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the Municipality of Rheden. (2023)
Since 2020, Saraja has been back at various locations with her new one
dance performances. She is currently working on a playful, humorous dance solo: DRIP DROP combination of dance, mime and even a bit of clowning. (suitable for all ages for various festivals)
Self-employed in the cultural sector since 2002; own theater company Muzimo Theater Productions. www.muzimo.nlSaraja plays and creates theater performances for young children in Arnhem for, among other things, the National Reading Days, full of humor, songs and clowning and to promote language development in young children.
Dance/theatre maker and performer
"I create dance performances in an intuitive way. With this I try to touch the essence of life. Instead of portraying the chaos of the world, I look for inner strength and my own motivations."
Reviews:
Dance performance; Landscape
"...an extremely fascinating piece of solo dance art" (Gelders dagblad 1995)"
"...intense, beautiful and powerful, tranquil and present"
(Association for visual artists in Zutphen 1995)
"You are working with the unknown" (1993 Docent Fast Forward muziek en dans)
Dance performance: Water ReflectionsMOI DONE, VORAL THE END (girl 8 years / 2021)
"Very meaningful and intense dance. Beautiful! 'Really good!' (Reflection 2024)
Dansimprovisatie & body awareness
"As a mature dancer I do not have the speed, physical strength and flexibility of a young dancer, but time gives more and more awareness and deeper experience in every fiber in my body."
(Saraja)
Saraja was taught by dance teachers from the US
from a Postmodern dance background, in the subjects: Body awareness, dance improvisation & contact improvisation, music/sound, dance making, release technique, BMC (Body Mind Centering) Teachers: Deborah Hay, Eva Karczag, Nancy Stark Smith, among others
Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Simone Forti, Fast Forward, Mary Fulkerson.
She also took lessons in Japanese Butoh dance with Kazuo Ohno and Natsu Nakaima
Her dance/theater life started in Amsterdam in 1987
where she took dance, theater, art, mime and pantomime lessons, among others
at the Rob van Reijn pantomime theater and the School for New Dance Development. She also played in mime performances by Ellen Jane Dijkstra.
CV
2020 Founded: Dance no Dance / Dance maker and performer
www.dance-no-dance.nl / Dance-performance art Performances: RET 2020/ Waterspiegelingen 2021/ Standing Woman 2022
2002 to present: Own company: MUZIMO - Theater productions www.muzimo.nl - Theater maker / Clown & puppeteer - Dance teacher of cultural education at primary schools - Teacher of art and language development for young children www.muzimo.nlw.muzimo.n
1991 Performer at Trajekt / Movement Theater / on location; various festivals in the Netherlands
Diplomas HBO Dance HKA, Arnhem (diploma 1993) Propaedeutic Medicine GU Amsterdam (diploma 1985) VWO Goese Lyceum, Goes (diploma 1984)
Trainings: Cultural education teacher at primary schools