Cynthia Loemij
Cynthia Loemij was born in Brielle in the Netherlands in 1969. She took a teacher-training course at the Rotterdam dance academy, where she obtained her diploma in 1991. Since then she has been a member of the full-time core of Rosas. She was involved in the creation of ERTS, Mozart/Concert Arias, un moto di gioia, Amor constante más allá de la muerte, Verklärte Nacht, Woud, Just Before, Drumming, Quartett (a duet with Frank Vercruyssen), In Real Time, Rain and Small hands (a duet with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker), April me, Repertory Evening, Bitches Brew / Tacoma Narrows, Kassandra, the revival of Mozart / Concert Arias, Raga for the Rainy season / A Love Supreme, D'un soir un jour, Bartók / Beethoven / Schönberg Repertory Evening, Steve Reich Evening, Zeitung and En Atendant. She danced in the revivals and film versions of Achterland, Rosas danst Rosas and Mikrokosmos and in the opera Bluebeard's Castle. In 2006 she took part in Nusch, a play by tg Stan. In 2009 she danced the duet Prélude à la mer with Mark Lorimer in the film of the same title by Thierry De Mey. She appeared in Kris Verdonck's End and collaborated with Manon de Boer on the installations Dissonant and Mirror Modulation. With David Zambrano she created a duet for a piece called Holes. Cynthia Loemij regularly teaches at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), the Panetta Movement Centre and Movement Research (New York) and Dance Works (Rotterdam).