Samantha van Wissen


Samantha van Wissen is a Dutch dancer who is mostly known for her work with the Brussels-based choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas and Thomas Hauert / ZOO.

Early life and education

Samantha van Wissen was born in 1970 in Roermond, The Netherlands.
She studied at the Hogeschool voor Muziek en Theater Rotterdam, in Rotterdam.

Career

Afterwards she moved to Brussels and joined Rosas, the dance company of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and afterwards ZOO, the dance company of Thomas Hauert.

Collaboration with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Rosas

The first Rosas productions in which Van Wissen danced are Erts and Mozart / Concert Arias. Un moto di gioia.. Afterwards, a wide range of other new Rosas productions followed. The most recent productions are Work / Travail / Labor and Così fan tutte. She also participated in the restaging of the Rosas productions Rosas danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, Bartók / Mikrokosmos, Achterland, Drumming and Rain. The Rosas productions tour worldwide. She can also be seen in a number of movies and videos made about or based on Rosas productions.

Collaboration with Thomas Hauert / ZOO

In 1997, Van Wissen also joined ZOO, the dance company of Brussels-based Swiss choreographer Thomas Hauert, to collaborate as a dancer on Cows in Space. After that another ten ZOO productions followed.

Collaboration with others

She also worked together with Fabián Barba, an Ecuadorian dancer and choreographer who studied at the dance school P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels and also collaborated with Thomas Hauert. She also danced in some productions that director Inne Goris made for children, and in a production by video artist / musician Walter Verdin.
Since 2021, Van Wissen works with François Gremaud and stars in his critically acclaimed Giselle...'','' based on the eponymous romantic ballet.

Teaching

For several years, Van Wissen was a teacher at P.A.R.T.S., the dance school in Brussels founded by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Since 2008, she has been teaching the repertoire of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker annually at ImPulsTanz - Vienna International Dance Festival Together with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Van Wissen also participated in the project, an art-based YouTube project of fABULEUS, inviting everyone to remix the chair scene from the choreography of Rosas dans Rosas. In three instructional films they explain together step by step the different movements and the structure of the choreography.
Van Wissen has also been teaching dance for fifteen years at the cultural center Westrand in Dilbeek, a Belgian municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant. She was also a contemporary dance, improvisation and movement theater coach for Danspunt.

Productions

With Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas

Source:Erts Mozart / Concert Arias. Un moto di gioia. Kinok Amor constante, más allá de la muerte Erwartung / Verklärte Nacht Woud, three movements to the music of Berg, Schönberg & Wagner Duke Bluebeard's castle Repertory Evening Verklärte Nacht Work/Travail/Arbeid Così fan tutte
Van Wissen also collaborated on the restagings of the Rosas productions Rosas danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, Bartók / Mikrokosmos, Achterland, Drumming and Rain.

With Thomas Hauert / ZOO

Source:Cows in space Pop-Up Songbook Jetzt Verosimile 5 More or less sad songs Walking Oscar Puzzled Accords You've Changed
  • ''MONO''

With Inne Goris

Drie zusters
  • ''Droesem''

With Fabián Barba

A personal yet collective history
  • ''slugs’ garden/cultivo de babosas''

With Walter Verdin

  • ''Storm''

With François Gremaud / 2b company

  • ''Giselle...''

Filmography

Mozartmateriaal
  • ''Rosas danst Rosas''