website birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name occupation
-lsb- http://www.anoukvandijk.nl/over-ons/het-gezelschap/anoukvandijk-dc anoukvandijk dc -rsb- velp , gelderland , netherlands dutch 20 february 1965 anouk van dijk
 anouk van dijk dancer , choreographer
anouk van dijk

anouk adriana van dijk -lrb- born 20 february 1965 in velp , gelderland -rrb- is a dutch choreographer and dancer .
van dijk graduated from the rotterdam dance academy in 1985 .
for almost a decade she was a lead soloist with amongst others the rotterdam dance group and amanda miller 's pretty ugly dance company .
in 1996 anouk van dijk dedicated herself exclusively to the creation and performance of her own work .
she has been running her own dance company since 1998 .
van dijk gained an international breakthrough in 1999 with her work ` nothing hurts ' , a collaboration with falk richter .
` nothing hurts ' .
was selected for the berliner theatertreffen and toured europe afterwards .
during the dutch dance days in 2000 , van dijk was awarded the lucas hoving prize for her production ` microman ' .
she developed during her career her own movement system , called the countertechnique .
the countertechnique discards the dominant opinion in the dance world that all movement relates to one center in the body .
instead , in the countertechnique dancers always keep their alignment and balance by continually giving counterdirections to each movement .
van dijk has been appointed artistic director of chunky move , succeeding gideon obarzanek , who founded the company in 1995 .
in 2006 , she was named one of `` 25 to watch '' by `` dance magazine '' .
