Nanine Linning

After graduating in choreography from the Rotterdam Dance Academy, Nanine Linning (1977) received an encouragement grant from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds to make her first professional production: Tribeca. After that, as a freelancer, she quickly created a series of dance performances for the smaller theaters at home and abroad with her foundation Pipsters.

In addition to her own freelance productions, she was appointed as resident choreographer at Scapino Ballet Rotterdam with effect from the 2001-2002 season. Here she created her overwhelming debut for the big stage, The Neon Lounge followed by the rough piece SCUM (2002). Other major pieces for Scapino were Lighthouse (2002), Bubble Gum Wrapper (2003), Suites of Lux (2004), Karpp XL (2004) and her farewell piece Endless Song of Silence. Her work has also been featured in Twools: Indecision Ensign in 1999, the already existing Mono/Stereo in 2001, No Artificial Sweetener with poet Mustafa Stitou in 2002, Double Helix (2003) and Christal Delight (2004). For the Museum Night 2004, Linning created various dance performances at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) in Rotterdam.

Linning was nominated for the NPS Cultuurprijs 2000. In 2002 she received the 'Wim Bary Perspektief prize' for her oeuvre, an incentive prize for young creative artists within the music and theater genre. She also received the Art Prize 2004 for her entire oeuvre. ‘Bacon’ was selected for the Nederlandse Dansdagen and also won the Zwaan (VSCD dance prize) for the best dance production 2004-2005.