Patricia van Deutekom

Conny Janssen invites choreographer Patricia van Deutekom to co-create the new big stage production INSTINCT.

Patricia van Deutekom graduated as a dancer from ArtEZ in Arnhem in 2005. She became a permanent dancer with the company Jens van Daele | Burning Bridges, where she also acted as co-choreographer and rehearsal director. In April 2021, she founded her own company, VANDEUTEKOM Collective (formerly LAVA Collective), to continue independently creating professional (theatre) dance performances and developing her unique style and artistic signature as a creator with her inspiring vision and drive. For her role as a dancer in her own performance ‘La Despedia’ (2023, VANDEUTEKOM Collective), she was nominated for a Swan for most impressive dance performance. Patricia van Deutekom’s performances are labelled as ‘dance concerts’ and are daring, unpolished, physical, explosive and at the same time vulnerable, honest, poetic and fragile. Her language is powerful and robust, but also meticulous and formative. A contrast between these extremes is equal to the contrast between the hard, powerful elements and the sensitivity in her work and the performers of her collective. Van Deutekom delves into the behavior of people and how they relate to each other.

Patricia van Deutekom was previously a guest at Conny Janssen Danst as artist in residence at HUIS Conny Janssen Danst. The duet études des hommes was the result of this. For DANSLOKAAL 11 (2023) she created the choreography UNMAN in collaboration with four dancers from Conny Janssen Danst. In 2024, these works were shown as a double-bill in Dutch theaters.