Nanine Linning quits Scapino

Five years ago you were the youngest chief choreographer of any company in the Netherlands. Why do you quit your engagement with Scapino next March?       After finishing school I started immediately working for Scapino Ballet: an opportunity to create work for big scale venues, with a large ensemble of highly skilled dancers and many possibilities to work with live music, commissioning composers to write music and to collaborate with visual artists, DJs, poets, light-, costume- and set-designers ...

The best conditions for somebody starting out in their career?                              ... or in other words, it was working in paradise for me. Being 20 at the time, I made my first works for them. But now after 5 years and 12 productions I feel it is time to change. I want to create an environment which is my own, which comes out of my creative needs, and not dealing with a given system, structure or planning. I want to work independently. Nevertheless, I have the ambition to freelance for other companies; I like working with large groups of dancers.

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