Bregje van Balen
Biography
Bregje van Balen has been a prominent dancer for 18 years with the Netherlands Dance Theatre (NDT) I and II. Always interested in costume design, she created her first costumes for the annual NDT Workshop and small dance projects. After retiring as a dancer she trained as a designer at Baruch Mode Academie. She has worked with several companies including Netherlands Dance Theatre I and II, The Royal Ballet London, the Norwegian National Ballet, Gothenburg Ballet, Malmö Stadsteater, Skånes Dansteater, Hamburg Ballet, Introdans, Royal Swedish Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Icelandic Dancetheatre, Pushkin Theatre Moscow, Bolshoi Ballet, Staatstheater Mainz, Gärtnerplatztheater, Aalto Theater, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal and Stuttgarter Ballett. She has worked with choreographers including Alexander Ekman, Johan Inger, Jorma Elo, Medhi Walerski, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Lukas Timulak, Bryan Arias, Ina Christel Johannessen, Hege Haagenrud, Jo Strømgren, Andreas Heise, Patrick Delcroix, Tom Weinberger, Felix Landerer and Cathy Marston