PERSONAL INFORMATION
Linde Hanna Rongen
nationality: Dutch, The Netherlands
Residency: Iceland
e-mail: [email protected]
04.04.1998
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PART OF
Artistic Director / Choreographer Project HOFIE (founded in 2020)
Co-founder Improv for Dance Enthusiasts (founded in 2021)
GUEST TEACHER
Iceland University of the Arts (currently)
Improv for Dance Enthusiasts (currently)
PROJECTS
2026
Music Video Morjane Ténére 'How can it be' (official music video) click here
Music Video Morjane Ténére ´Sweet fruits´ (Official music video) click here
Music Video Diana Burkot (To be released 2026)
Choreographer Movement Director Musical ‘Gósi’ (Borgarnes, Iceland)
Choreographer Movement Director Musical ´Matthildur´(Borgarnes, Iceland)
Choreographer Final performance Óskandi Dance School (Reykjavík, Iceland)
Performance/Choreographer CATSWEAT by Catwalk collective Fashion Show - Designer: Diana Burkot x Pussy Riot as part of DesignMarch (Reykjavík, Iceland) click here
Performance ´How can we break this circle?´ Project HOFIE at Reykjavík Arts Festival (Reykjavík, Iceland) click here
Performance ´First day of summer´Youth performance by Projcet HOFIE as part of Ungi Festival (Reykjavík, Iceland)
Facilitator Improv for Dance Enthusiasts January - February course (Reykjavík, Iceland)
Facilitator Contemporary Technique (Borganes, Iceland)
Facilitator Contemporary Technique Stig 7 (Óskandi, Reykjavík)
Facilitator 4-months course in improvisation, Improv for Dance Enthusiasts (Reykjavík, Iceland)
Facilitator 2-week course Contemporary Technique + Creative Process, 1st year students Iceland University of the Arts, BA Program Contemporary Dance Practices (Reykjavík, Iceland)
Residency Supporting works/projects for young audiences. Project HOFIE 'BRATZ' at Dansverkstaedid (Reykjavík, Iceland)
Curator Performance evening at Gerðarsafn museum, team of curators: Improv for Dance Enthusiasts (Reykjavík, Iceland)
Festival organiser Mad march, month festival with focus on Improvisation run by Improv for Dance Enthusiasts with a focus on workshops, jams and an open stage (Reykjavík, Iceland)
2025
Residency Pavillon K - Project HOFIE (Vordingborg, Denmark)
Residency Partnering Repertoire - Project HOFIE (Leuven, Belgium)
Residency Improv for Dance Enthusiasts (Zagreb, Croatia)
Facilitator Partnering Course, 1st year BA students (Iceland University of the Arts)
Facilitator Contemporary Technique, 1st year BA students (Iceland University of the Arts
Facilitator Contemporary Technique (JSB, Reykjavík)
Facilitator Improv for Dance Enthusiasts (Dansverkstaedid, Reykjavík)
Facilitator Morning classes professional dancers, Partnering (Dansverkstaedid, Reykjavík)
Facilitator Company class (Iceland Dance Company)
Choreographer Choreographers Meeting Point organised by Fíld, Union for professional dancers (Dansverkstaedid, Reykjavík)
Choreographer LEAF (Learning through Ecological Art Forms) Improv for Dance Enthusiasts. Performed at Dansdagar Festival 2025 + Hamraborg Festival 2025
Choreographer REFLECT - Community performance by Improv for Dance Enthusiasts. Performed at the City library Reykjavík
Performance 'Where Light Lingers' Pavillon K - Project HOFIE (January, Vordingborg, Denmark)
Performance How can we break this circle, A! Performance Festival (Akureyri, Iceland)
Performance Unsure Materials for a variety of numbers - Project HOFIE (Ásmundarsafn and Dansverkstaedid)
Performance Audiowalk for seashores - Improv for Dance Enthusiasts (Hamraborg Festival, Kopavogur)
Performance collaboration Dans.Haus and Endurtakk (Kólaportid, Iceland)
Performance How to build a stage - Improv for Dance Enthusiasts (Zagreb, Croatia)
Performance North Atlantic Islands Dance Network (Nuuk, Greenland)
Music Video Possimiste 'Monster' click here
Network Meeting 'Bridges' North Atlantic Islands Network - Nuuk, Greenland
Workshop Injury prevention workshop led by Pontus Linder (April, Dansverkstaedid, Reykjavík)
*April - August, recovering from ankle surgery
2024
Project Manager full-time position at Dansverkstaeðið, workspace for choreographers and freelance dancers in Reykjavík (6-month)
Residency Bratz (Dansverkstaeðið, Reykjavík)
Residency Project HOFIE (De Ruimte, Leuven, Belgium)
Residency Research Period Project HOFIE (Leifshús, Akureyri)
Summer Residency Creative Summer Job (supported by Gardabaer)
Summer Residency Project HOFIE (Dansverkstaedid, Reykjavík )
Choreographer 'To be swallowed accidentally' Project HOFIE - Rökkvan Festival
Choreographer 'This is a weird place' Improv for Dance Enthusiasts - City library Reykjavík
Facilitator Contemporary Technique, 2nd year BA students (Iceland University of the Arts)
Facilitator Contemporary Technique (Kramhúsid, Reykjavík)
Facilitator Ballet advanced + Beginners (Óskandi, Reykjavík)
Facilitator Contact Improvisation and Partnering (FORWARD Youth Company, Reykjavík)
Facilitator Choreographers Meeting Point (Dansverkstaedid, Reykjavík)
Performance Hildur Yeoman Fashion Brand (Design March Reykjavík)
Performance Hljódheimur Fossvogs RE-USE: Visual Art Creation/Sustainable behaviour
Performance How can we make this circle straight? (Jónsmessugledi Gardabaer, Hamraborg Festival, Gardabaer town)
Workshop Continuous Dramaturgy led by Maja Hriešik - Supported by Erasmus+ ( Bratislava Slovakia)
Network meeting / Performance Nordic Baltic Islands 'A Chance to Dance' (Faroese Islands)
Partner Meeting REFLECT Community Project 2024 in Dance improvisation by Improv for Dance Enthusiasts - Supported by Erasmus+ (Iceland, Poland)
Partner Meeting LEAF Learning through Ecological Art Forms in Queer Site-Specific Performances run by Improv for Dance Enthusiasts in Iceland and Nurt Foundation in Poland - Supported by Erasmus + (Iceland, Poland)
2023
Performance Bad Boogie Ballin - Solo (Dansdagar Festival)
Performance How can we break this circle (Dansdagar Festival, Gardabaer)
Performance We are earth / We are water - Lilja Björk Haraldsdóttir (Meningarnott 2023)
Performance Assitej Next Generation - Creative Platform - Jill Crovisier (Liechtenstein)
Performance Anxious Threads by Sarah Finkle (Rymd Gallery)
Performance Hljódheimur Fossvogs RE-USE: Visual Art Creation in Context of Sustainable behaviour
Facilitator Contemporary Technique + Creative Process (Iceland University of the Arts)
Facilitator Contemporary Technique (Fontys Dance Academy, The Netherlands)
Facilitator Course Ballet Advanced (Óskandi, Reykjavík)
Choreographer HOVIE V - Reykjavík Art Museum (Safnarnótt 2023)
Choreographer / Facilitator Community Project - Dance Enthusiasts 'This is a good place'
Winning Installation Hackathon Contest Prague - RE-USE: Visual Art Creation in Context of Sustainable Behaviour
Sculpture Hljódheimur Fossvogs - Realisation of RE:USE Project Hackathon Prague in collaboration with Gerdarsafn Museum (Kopavogur, Iceland)
Workshop intensive David Zambrano - Improvisation on Stage funded by Erasmus+ (Brussels, Belgium)
Workshop The Art of Teaching Dance led by Meeri Mäkinen
Workshop Take Your Space led by Karen Toftegaard
2022
Performance How can we make this circle straight? (Airwaves Festival, Jónsmessugledi, Gardabaer Town)
Performance A study of Choices - Linda & Gustav (Reykjavík Fringe Festival)
Performance Woven Into (Nordic House Reykjavík)
Album release HOFIE III: ORBIT (Toma Rymid)
Booklet Improv for Dance Enthusiast in collaboration with Gerdarsafn Museum
Guest Choreographer FORWARD Youth Company - HOFIE V
Facilitator Iceland University of the Arts - contemporary technique
Facilitator Movement Practice (Climathon, Reykjavík)
Facilitator Improv for Dance Enthusiasts (Lunga Festival)
Workshop Intensive in acrobatics led by Tom Weksler
2021
Artist in Residence 'The making of Dido Aneas Us & All' - Samir Calixto (Dansverkstæðið)
Artist in Residence at Dansverkstaedid, Reykjavík
Film Band (2022) Post Performance Blues Band
Performance How can we make this circle straight (Reykjavík Dance Festival)
Performance Bratz - Júlía Kolbrún Sigurdardottir
Performance HOFIE III: ORBIT
2020
Internship Iceland Dance Company
Film When We Are Born A Film by Ólafur Arnalds and Vincent Moon
Music Video - Okei - Song by Kvikind
Short film screening HOFIE I - Tilburg (the Netherlands)
2019
Performance Sexual Assault - David Zambrano (Deltebre, Spain)
Performance Vortex - Helder Seabra (Gate 8 Festival, Chiavari Italy)
2018
Performance Bloedbanden - Dutch Dance Days (Maastricht, the Netherlands)
Workshop intensive Ricardo Ambrozio (2018)
Workshop Intensive Dance Acrobatics Winston Reynolds (2018)
Workshop Intensive - Luke Jessop (2018)
2016/2017
Performance BAM - Joost Vrouenraets
Touring: Holland Dance Festival The Hague: Spui theater, Deventer, Parcours Festival Maastricht, Budascoop Kortrijk
EDUCATION
Iceland University of the Arts
Reykjavík (2019) - Contemporary Dance Practices
International Exchange
Fontys Dance Academy
Tilburg (2016 - 2020) - Dance Art in Context
specialisation: Contemporary Dance
graduation: 2020
Opleiding Dans Maastricht
Maastricht (2013-2016)
Pre Dance Academy Codarts
Bernardinuscollege
Heerlen (2010-2016)
pre-university education
specialisation: Nature and Science & Nature and Health
INTERNSHIP
Iceland Dance Company (2020)
Production: "Romeo + Julia" - Erna Ómarsdóttir, Halla Ólafsdóttir.
"When we are born" - album film Ólafur Arnalds
Fremdkörper (Edition 2020) - 24H performance event, Royal Palace, Tilburg, the Netherlands
EXPERIENCE AS BACHELOR STUDENT
Bachelor of the Arts
Fontys Dance Academy, Tilburg / Listháskolí Íslands (Iceland University of the Arts)
ballet - graham - cunningham - limon - contemporary techniques - improvisation - butoh instinctive performance - yoga - pilates - partnering - floorwork - dance history - music theory - critical thinking
Final Performance Tour, The Netherlands (2019)
B(e)side - Roberto Olivan
Finding Will - Sara Wiktorowicz
Projects
The One and Only - Kolaportid Reykjavík
Be-longing - Noam Carmeli, Emma Rozgoni, collaboration Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.
BITCHCRAFT - Halla Ólafsdóttir, Eliisa Erävalo
Games of Sympathy - Marc van Loon, Eddy Becquart, Ree Esterhuizen
Making Space Project 2018 - the100hands, vloeistof, Piet van Dycke, Maria Sartzetaki, Josse Vessies
Collaborations
Run Rabbit Run - Tony Vezich
Unbound - Jelena Kostic
Pixel SoloBis - Lucas Devroe
Day one- Lucie Petrusova
Hominis Sensate - Marc van Loon
SCHOLARSHIPS / PRIZES
Winning Installation RE:USE, Hackathon Prague (2023)
Erasmus Traineeship (Iceland Dance Company) 2020, Iceland
Erasmus Exchange Scholarship (Iceland University of the Arts) 2019, Iceland
Festival Deltebre Dansa Scholarship 2018, Spain
Gate 8 Festival, 2019 Italy
London Contemporary Dance School Summer Intensive Richard Alston Dance Company (2015), the UK
Summer Intensive Gotra Ballet (2014), the Netherlands
EXTRA ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
Online Course Certificate (2020): Mountains, Geology - University of Alberta, Canada
Enrolled (2021): BA Earth Science - Stockholm University, Sweden
Enrolled full-time (2024/2025): Mountain Guiding - Fjallamennskunám FAS, Höfn í Hornafirdi, Iceland
MINOR STUDY
Course Certificate: Media and Performance Design (2019)
Course Certificate: Entrepreneurship (2019)
at Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts
GRADUATION RESEARCH
The Disentanglement of Art, Art ontology - Inspired by Robert Kraut (2020)