Subsidised dance companies

Five companies get financing from the basic infrastructure 2021-2024 (BIS). They perform top level ballet and modern dance and represent the Netherlands abroad.

The National Ballet has the task to show the classical ballet repertory and to develop contemporary dance as well. This company employs around 80 dancers.

Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) (Netherlands Dance Theatre) is operating internationally and focusses on modern dance. They are from The Hague and divided its approximately 44 dancers into two companies: NDT 1 and NDT 2.

Introdans was founded to serve the east of the country. Introdans makes modern ballet and often gets foreign choreographers in to create new work. It has a youth company and is very active in the educational field.

Scapino Ballet Rotterdam is a modern dance company that works a lot with and for the youth. Scapino organises many productions, projects and festivals each year in the Netherlands and abroad.

Club Guy and Roni forms a club of choreographers, dancers and musicians who work together to innovate the performing arts and do not shy away from new dance forms. They give talented young makers and dancers a place to grow in the Poetic Disasters Club.

In the period 2021-2024 29 medium and small sized dance companies receive a multi-activity grant from the FPK. On the FPK website you can find the amounts granted:

1. Bird Productions presents work by choreographer Dunja Jocic. She worked as a dancer with Club Guy & Roni and Ballet du Nord (France). The contemporary, modern dance of the choreographer is multidisciplinary.
2. Corpo Máquina is directed by choreographer Guilherme Miotto. In his performances, breakdance and hip-hop idioms are deconstructed by applying principles from modern dance. Performed by amateur and professional dancers.
3. Dadodans is a company under the artistic direction of Gaia Gonnelli. The company develops associative modern dance performances for children from two years old.
4. IRC performs work by choreographer Shailesh Bahoran. He combines Shailesh Bahoran breakdance with elements from the Hindustani culture, such as the Indian classical dance Bharatanatyam and music.
5. Kalpanarts publishes work by dancer and choreographer Kalpana Raghuraman. She combines contemporary dance with Indian classical dance styles such as Bharatanatyam. Social themes are often the starting point. There is often live music.
6. Kostić is a dance company based on the work of Jelena Kostíć. She creates theatrical modern dance performances in which socio-political themes play a prominent role. This often results in multiple productions in different formats.
7. OFF Projects is a company with choreographer and musician Amos Ben-Tal and Milena Twiehaus, Yvan Dubreuil, Aurélie Cayla and Genevieve Osborne. They make multi-disciplinary performances, in which music, text and images also play a role.
8. LIBI presents work by choreographer Ryan Djojokarso. Contemporary, modern dance is combined with urban dance forms, singing, live music, mime and play. There are abstract and narrative elements. A personal story is often the starting point.
9. SHIFFT publishes work by choreographer Jasper van Luijk. In his performances, modern dance idiom and an abstract visual language are used.
10. The Ruggeds is a break dance collective. The collective has been active in the international battle scene for years and has been active in the theater circuit since 2017. The artistic direction is in the hands of Niek Traa.
11. The 100Hands is a contemporary dance company led by dancers and choreographers Mojra Vogelnik-Škerlj and Jasper Džuki Jelen. Audience participation plays an important role in the interactive performances they develop.
12. This is not a show features work by choreographer Katja Heitmann. In her work, Katja Heitmann combines conceptual dance with visual art. The intrinsic research design of her work often takes shape in interventions and installations.
13. 155 is a collective with a passion for movement forms, music, film, humor and art. The brothers Thomas and Erik Bos are the linchpin. The members have all started b-boying and this is the common thread in the work.
14. Another Kind of Blue is under the artistic direction of choreographer David Middendorp. The company creates performances in which modern dance and technology merge.
15. Dansateliers is a production house for the development of contemporary dance. They offer (emerging) dance makers trajectories in which they develop their own signature as a choreographer through research, experiment and production.
16. De Dansers is under the artistic direction of choreographer/dancer Josephine van Rheenen and composer/musician Guy Corneille. They create performances for children, families and young adults, in which dance and live music come together.
17. Duda Paiva Company presents work by Brazilian-Dutch dancer and puppeteer Duda Paiva and creates visual theater in a combination of dance, physical theater and puppetry. The performances are sometimes for children, sometimes for adults.
18. LeineRoebana is a contemporary dance company led by Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana. They want to realize dance as a contemporary critical art form that reflects on questions of our time.
19. Nicole Beutler Projects presents work by choreographer and theatre maker Nicole Beutler. Nicole Beutler's work is characterized by a minimalist and interdisciplinary approach. Historical connotations are intertwined with current events.
20. Panama Pictures is under the artistic direction of choreographer Pia Meuthen. The company creates work at the interface of dance, music and circus, and often collaborates with composers Strijbos & Van Rijswijk.
21. Plan d- is a youth dance company under the artistic direction of choreographer and dancer Andreas Denk. The absurd and humorous performances are based on themes that play a role in society.
22. Schweigman& is the theatre group of Boukje Schweigman. The body in space is the starting point. They developed their own theatre language; rituals are combined with elements from mime, dance, performance, visual arts and music theatre.
23. SHARP is under the artistic direction of choreographer Arno Schuitemaker. The work is characterized by a strongly transdisciplinary character, in which the kinesthetic experience of the audience is central.
24. Ulrike Quade Company makes visual puppet theater for adults. The performances consist of a mix of play, dance, music, scenography and literature, and vary from intimate lunch performances to large-scale operas.
25. WArd/waRD is under the artistic direction of choreographer Ann Van den Broek. Human existence is the starting point. Boundaries between art disciplines are crossed and they want a critical, direct and intense dialogue with the public.
26. Conny Janssen Danst is under the artistic direction of choreographer Conny Janssen. Modern dance is combined with music, film and architecture. Metropolitan themes are discussed. There is room for the development of dance talents.
27. ICK is a platform for contemporary dance. Founded by artistic directors Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten. Besides for ICK they were also artistically responsible for Ballet National de Marseille.
28. ISH is under the artistic direction of Marco Gerris. It is a breeding ground for upcoming performers from the urban scene. In addition to their own productions, they produce with various artists who operate collectively under their direction.
29. Jakop Ahlbom Company is the company of Jakop Ahlbom. It creates physical visual theatre that depicts a magical universe, with a mix of mime, slap stick, dance, music, illusionism and special effects.

Provinces and city councils grant structural subsidy as well. A few well known companies receive structural subsidy from a (big) city council. In Amsterdam the Amsterdamse Kunstraad advises on the Kunstenplan. In Rotterdam the Rotterdamse Raad voor Kunst en Cultuur advises on subsidies in their Cultuurplan.