‘Art is not some tasty porridge, a sweet candy where you just have to open your mouth for and swallow. Most of all it’s a matter of concentration, attention and focused energy’.

(Hugo Claus)

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Working harder than anybody else in the room is at least as important as being talented!  That’s why Sigrid doesn’t let her students get away with doing only half ‘the job’.  Marking choreography  is only allowed when it is mastered fully. Sigrid challenges her students to not only reproduce the material that is given to them but to really investigate the possibilities of making every step meaningful. In her musical theatre classes the emphasis will be on creating a truthful character and telling the story behind the steps. She will help students find out how to make interesting choices that will enable them to distinguish themselves from other performers. Her classroom is a safe  environment where they feel free to learn through trial and error. Sigrid strongly believes that making mistakes is essential to the process of becoming a creative and authentic artist. This way, bit by bit, young artists will get more confident about their own choices and what it is they want to share with the audience. Because of these high expectations, her students will evolve into technically skilled and well trained dancers, but also into interesting performers  who are passionate about their art.

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Sigrid loves to express herself through dancing (her first love!), singing and acting. She studied Ballet and Jazz at the University of Performing Arts in Amsterdam (AHK). Her love for musical theater already started during her formal education because it gave her the opportunity to combine her three passions. She herself was a true Triple Threat performer, who played in a large variety of musicals. In many of those she was asked to be Dance Captain of the company. So teaching never really left her, not even during her stage career.

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Her extensive stage experience in the musical theatre industry, has made it possible for her to work with a lot of different renowned choreographers and directors. This made her a specialist in a variety of musical theatre dance styles.  Further collaboration with Broadway performers like Sergio Trujillo, Jerry Mitchell, Valarie Pettiford, Charlotte D’Amboise, Chryssie Whitehead, Mary Ann Lamb and Elizabeth Parkinson gave her firsthand information from and about choreographers like Bob Fosse, Rob Marshall, Twyla Tharp and Jerome Robbins. All these experiences enable her to really go in-depth in her musical theatre classes.

 

The following are examples of some of the repertoire Sigrid has worked with over the years:

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Bob Fosse​

• All that Jazz (Chicago)

•  Cell Block Tango (Chicago)

•  Hot Honey Rag (Chicago)

• We both reached for the gun (Chicago)

• Mein Herr (Cabaret)

• The Rich Man’s Frug (Sweet Charity)

• Big Spender (Sweet Charity)

• Steamheat (The Pajama Game)

• Dancin’man (Dancin’)

• Crunchy Granola Suite (Dancin’)

• Sing Sing Sing finale (Dancin’)

• Trumpet solo (Dancin’)

• I Gotcha (Liza with a Z)

• Bye Bye Blackbird (Liza with a Z)

• Dancing in the Dark (Fosse)

• Cool Hand Luke (Fosse)

• From this moment on (Kiss Me Kate)

 

Rob Marshall​

• Cell Block Tango (Chicago (the movie))

 

Jerome Robbins​​​

• Prologue (West Side Story)

• Jet Song (West Side Story)

• Dance at the Gym:  Blues & Mambo (West Side Story)

• America (West Side Story)

•  Cool (West Side Story)

• I Feel Pretty (West Side Story)

• Dream ballet: Scherzo & sextet on ‘Somewhere’ (West Side Story)

• New York, New York (On the Town)​

• Charleston (Billion Dollar Baby)​

• The Mistake Walz (The Concert)

 

Michael Bennet​

• I Hope I get it (A Chorus Line)

• The Music and the Mirror (A Chorus Line)

• One (A Chorus Line)

 

Gillian Lynne​

• Prologue: Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats (Cats)

• Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer (Cats)

• The Jellicle Ball (Cats)

 

Sergio Trujillo​

• When you’re an Adams (The Addams Family)

 

Kathleen Marshall​

• Sweet and Lowdown (Nice work if you can get it)

 

Twyla Tharp

• Movin’ Out

 

All these choreographies can be customized to intermediate, advanced or professional level. For beginners Sigrid has special classes for students who want to get acquainted with a lot of different musical styles on their own level. It is also possible to hire Sigrid to make a musical theatre choreography for a special event or performance in or outside your school.

Sigrid’s core business is teaching musical theatre classes but she also teaches classical ballet, audition training and dance history. Besides that she organizes special musical theatre workshops and masterclasses including song interpretation and acting.