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Triomphe & Enchantement

The early dance company Triomphe & Enchantement brings the Western European party dances from the past back to life. Visually attractive scenes, splendid costumes, lively acting and of course lots of dances, from solemn to exuberant, take today's audience back to the distant or not so distant past: Triomphe & Enchantement offers a humorous take on the splendour of court life, charming pastoral scenes or alehouse revelries.

Artistic direction Frank Perenboom, the artistic director of Triomphe & Enchantement, is well-known internationally as a specialist in the field of early dance. He works with ensembles in London, Berlin, Vienna and Geneva both as a dancer and as a choreographer. He has danced in many operas and music theatre productions with companies such as Fiori Musicali, the Freiburger BarockConsort, the Harp Consort, the Wiener Akademie, the New London Consort, La Stagione Frankfurt and Capilla Flamenca, touring the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, Austria, France, the Baltic States and Japan. He is a regular guest teacher at conservatories and international festivals. In the Netherlands he has been involved in productions of the Nederlands Historisch Danstheater, Sarabande and the Stichting Oude Muziek en Theater.

Costumes Ceciel van Aalst has been addicted to dance from the age of six. Since taking a degree in Dutch, she has been professionally active in early dance. She is an actress as well as a dancer, director, puppeteer and mother. She developed her dressmaking skills by studying the literature as well as paintings and dresses in museums and by experimenting with producing period dresses, from Greek and Roman costumes to the dresses of the Roaring Twenties, from underwear to headdress. Being a dancer herself, she knows what a costume needs to be historically sound without unnecessarily hampering the dancer's movements.

photography: An Stalpers