Nathalie Schmidt
PerformerNathalie was born and raised in the Netherlands. She started at the age of sixteen at the MBO Show Allround course at Rijn IJssel in Arnhem and continued her studies at Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Contemporary Urban Program, where she graduated in 2022. From a young age, Nathalie has expressed herself primarily in the physical form rather than verbally, regardless if it was in her daily life communication or in her choice for various sports activities. In a natural way, she had a strong unconscious connection to that personal bodily expression. Today, Nathalie always brings this nonverbal communication back into her dance. She strives to have a nonverbal dialogue with the audience, in order to make them feel and experience what she herself is experiencing in that moment.
Nathalie is one of the four dancers in the performance ‘Out of the Box’, which is currently on tour.
‘Working with The100Hands means, among other things, to erase the boundary between ‘we are the dancers and you are the audience’. We are collectively one unit of the performance.’