Archive for year: 2024

Fantastic news! We are thrilled to share that Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK) has granted the Henny Jurriëns Studio the four-year subsidy for 2025-2028!

With the support of AFK, we are able to continue our mission of providing affordable training and opportunities to our local dance community as well as visiting dance artists from all over the world.

We are thankful to the AFK committee for recognizing the vitality of a place where dance artists can maintain their physiques, improve their technique and learn new skills and for acknowledging the important position of HJS in the dance ecosystem of Amsterdam and beyond.

While we are excited to have received the support of AFK, we are sorry to hear about those who did not receive funding.

See below a quote from the AFK committee on our positive advice:

“HJS describes an artistic vision with a program focussed on combining technical and artistic skills, as well as career development and coaching, so that dancers can ‘continue to prepare for the high demands placed on them in the work field’. The committee recognizes this vision in HJS’s approach and with this, HJS has, according to the committee, a distinctive artistic signature. The committee considers the offerings of HJS for dance professionals to be an important link in the Amsterdam dance scene, and thus of artistic significance for the city.”

A big shoutout to everyone involved in the funding application process: Neeltje Holland van Laarhoven, Evan Schwarz, Wouter Vertogen, Gary Feingold, Ineke Drabbe, Angelina van Niele, Esther Boateng and the board members of HJS.

To our dear HJS Community, this win is yours as much as it is ours today. You keep growing, expanding, creating, collaborating, showing up and developing. There is no Henny Jurriëns Studio without you. Thank you for your support and see you in our studios soon ❤️