Allies Swinnen (1964) has been active in many fields within the dance world for more than twenty years. For over fifteen years she was a dance teacher and dance consultant for primary and secondary schools as well as independently. From 1995 through to 2008 she worked as a dance consultant at the Centrum voor Amateurkunst Noord-Brabant where she initiated and supervised countless projects in the amateur dance field. The Amateur DansWerkplaatsen Brabant and the series of books called ‘Dans-Idee-Pakketten, snel aan de slag met podium-danseducatie’, date from this period.
She also worked for the Fontys Dance Academy in different guises, including her work as coordinating artistic and business supervisor for ‘In Between’, the academy’s dance company, and as supervisor for the student career councelling team at the department of dance. The Tilburg Municipality’s Bureau Cultuurmakelaar had Allies working for them. For a year (2008) she and Mike Philips were responsible for the programme Cultuurmanifestatie.She is currently working as an innovator for product- and audience development within dance, which she does for Danshuis Station Zuid and others.

As far as her administrative experience is concerned, she was a member of the Advisory Committee for the Professional Arts for the Province of Noord-Brabant for more than eight years. And since late 2003 she has been involved in the Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie (the former Fonds voor Amateurkunst en Podiumkunsten), at first as a member, and since 2006 as chair of the committee for theatre, dance, and literature.

In addition, she was a member of the committee for the Zuidelijke Dansvoorziening led by Rinus Haks, which by commission from the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science issued the report that helped set up Danshuis Station Zuid. Allies combines her work for our Dance House with an independent practice for coaching and training. In addition she has been with the Roy Martina Experience for many years, as a top trainer and a Mind Body Coach.

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