Thomas Körtvélyessy / Reàl Dance Company

About Thomas Körtvélyessy / Reàl Dance Company

Reàl Dance Company is the one-man enterprise of dancer, choreographer, teacher, cultural thinker and reformer Thomas Körtvélyessy. Its function is to realize his artistic vision of dance as a fully emancipated, integrated, sensorial, empowering, connecting, challenging, exciting, healing, engaging activity for the 21st century. Over the course of year, he has created a body of work that examines fundamental conditions and questions of dance making, drawing from the past, and dancing in the here & now towards the future. The company has a number of activities: • creating and producing new artistic works by Thomas Körtvélyessy in his practical examination of conditions for making dance in the 21st century, based on his own personal vision • disseminatig and re-creating repertory works • research new fields of dance, especially in the areas of alternative globalisation, intermedia and interdisciplinary exchange • develop an integrated, sustainable dance training that can successfully lead to the understanding of as many other forms of dance as possible • publicate texts about choreographic concerns and practical research The central method is expressed in the X (also as in X for unknown, crossing, or multiplication) Grants have been given by the Rotterdam Arts Council, the Kinetic Awareness® Center (New York), the European Cultural Foundation, Fleur Groenendijk Foundation (Rotterdam), and Akasha Foundation (Arnhem)

Keywords

• Bodywork
• Choreography
• Community Art
• Cross-Cultural Awareness
• Dance In Public Space
• Improvisation
• Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• Intermedia
• New Media
• Socio-Cultural Emancipation
• Sustainability

Address

• Headquarters

  Nieuwe Binnenweg 288-CRotterdamZuid-Holland, Netherlands

Team by function

Based on 3 public job profiles as of 4 September 2026.

• Other / Unclassifiable2
• Education / Training1