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ConCuerpos
INCLUSIVE DANCE COMPANY – THE NETHERLANDS
Our Work
ABOUT
ConCuerpos is a pioneering dance company creating artistic, educational, and research-based projects with dancers with and without disabilities. Founded in Colombia in 2009, the company expanded to the Netherlands in 2023, extending its innovative work on accessibility internationally.
Driven by a strong political and ethical commitment, ConCuerpos challenges conventional ideas of dance while dismantling barriers to participation. Through poetic and thought-provoking performances, the company celebrates difference and artistic agency.
At the heart of its practice is artistic research into Universal Accessibility, integrating Sign Language, audio description, and creative subtitles into the dramaturgy of its works as expressive artistic languages. ConCuerpos connects diverse audiences and communities, redefining accessibility as a vital artistic force.
FOCARIS our collaboration with the Colombian dancers in 2025
News
Conversations with ConCuerpos #1
Online ConversationWhat does disability mean to you as a performer, maker, teacher, or organizer?ConCuerpos NL invites you to join our online dialogue exploring perspectives across t ...
DECIPHERING THE MYSTERY OF BEING ALIVE
Memoir of ConCuerpos Inclusive Dance Company's European Tour 2026By David Bernal and Laisvie Ochoa, with voices from all the company’s artistsProject supported by:Stichting De ZaierPrivate supporters ...
In Motion (2026)
Company: ConCuerpos the NetherlandsName of the work: What you left meChoreographer: In MotionDancers: Dennis Massar, Anneloes van Schuppen Laisvie Andrea Ochoa and Kamee Frieling. ...
FOCARIS Netherlands & Scotland 2026
We are thrilled to share some incredibly exciting news: our artists from Colombia are crossing the Atlantic this fall to join forces with the Dutch cast, and perform in Scotland and the Netherlands ...
FOCARIS (2025-2026)
Company: ConCuerpos the NetherlandsName of the work: FOCARISChoreographer: Laisvie Andrea Ochoa and Diana León.Dancers: Kamee Frieling, Dennis Massar, Anneloes van Schuppen, Laisvie Ochoa.Music compos ...
Team
Laisvie Andrea Ochoa
Director - Choreographer- Dancer - Teacher
Colombian-Lithuanian choreographer, inclusive dance expert, and video artist. She is the leader of ConCuerpos an international dance company where mixable dancers come together to develop artistic, educational, and research projects.
She studied Psychology and a Specialization in Multimedia Creation in Colombia. In the Netherlands, she studied the Master in Choreography COMMA (CODARTS / Fontys) and the Embodied Life Art Program (ELAP), a somatic-based trajectory of 2 years. She trained in dance mainly at Danza Comun Academy in Bogota and has been a dancer in the Netherlands for the companies Tinaninani, Plan D, and Misiconi, and for the Colombian companies La Arenera (Dir: Margarita Roa), Tercero Excluido (Dir: Natalia Orozco), Korpe (Dir: Edwin Vargas), La Gata Cirko (Dir: Felipe Ortiz and Luisa Montoya). Laisvie is a member of the performing arts magazine El cuerpoeSpin and she has co-written 2 books in the field of Inclusive Dance. Laisvie has worked as a choreographer and/or video artist in Colombia, Argentina, and The Netherlands.
Her creative exploration is based on working from subjectivity, developing bodily intelligence from a state of listening and finding creative freedom from the abundance of imagination. Laisvie addresses political and human issues in her works, creating multimedia performances that often involve live video projection. Currently, Laisvie is developing an artistic research on accessibility in dance, seeking to create a stage language that allows the autonomous participation of people with visual and hearing impairments as an audience. This means integrating elements such as subtitles, audio description, and Sign Language within the dramaturgy of the work with the interest to use these tools as means of expression. At the moment she moves between Colombia and the Netherlands, continuing her work with ConCuerpos, being a dancer, teacher, and maker.
Anneloes van Schuppen
Dancer - Teacher - Maker
Anneloes van Schuppen is a versatile dancer, choreographer, community artist, teacher and coach from the Netherlands. After studying Liberal Arts & Sciences, she graduated Cum Laude from Codarts Rotterdam in Dance in Education. Anneloes is driven to seek connections everywhere and promote creative collaborations. As a choreographer, she creates a wide range of performances with people of all ages, both with and without dance experience. She firmly believes that dance is a language everyone speaks, bringing people closer to themselves and each other. Her work includes creating performances in (special) education, working with dancers with and without disabilities, with elderly people in care homes, (advanced) amateur dancers, and students in preparatory dance programs. In addition to her work as a creator, Anneloes performs in various projects and for diverse companies both in the Netherlands and abroad (e.g. Sweden, United States, Greece, Japan). As a teacher and researcher in didactics and (critical) pedagogy, she currently works for two dance universities in the Netherlands (Codarts Rotterdam and Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de kunsten). Besides this, she teaches contemporary, improvisation and instant composition in multiple dance schools. She also offers dance workshops in the corporate sector to encourage people to be less in their heads and more in their bodies and provides one-on-one dance coaching for those looking to develop creatively and personally. Anneloes has been involved in Con Cuerpos the Netherlands from the beginning as a creative dancer and teacher.
Kamee Frieling
Dancer - Teacher - Maker
Kamee Frieling (16 August 1997, Dutch) is a graduated as a
contemporary dancer. Her main qualities are floorwork,
acrobatics, improvisation and partnering and is known as an
unique and authentic performer. She has performed with Niku
Shaudhari, Schweigman&, Eilit Marom (KORZO), Plan-d, Mime
Wave, BOOST productions and Company TiNaNiNaNi amongst
others. She danced in ‘Nomad’ (2019) from Sidi Larbi at the
Dutch Dance Days.
She was nominated for the Jacque de Leeuwprijs 2021, a price
for exceptional and promising talent in the arts.
Next to dancing Kamee also creates her own movement practice
and performances at Company TiNaNiNaNi. In 2020 she created
SORROW. In 2022 she created and dances TRAP NAAR DE HEMEL
(6+), in 2024 VEILIGE HAVEN and in 2025 DE GRENS.
Next to performing, she is active as a passionate teacher in
contemporary dance and yoga (vinyasa flow, aerial yoga and yin
yoga) and reformer Pilates.
Dennis Massar
Dancer - Teacher - Maker
Dancer, dance teacher, maker and advocate. He is born and raised in Rijswijk ZH, the Netherlands and currently based in Arnhem, The Netherlands. He is also deaf and has two CI’s (cochlear implants).
Dennis is trained in contemporary dance (ArtEZ Artist Educator in Dance) and is also training in housedance.
As a dancer and maker everything he does is somehow connected to communication. For example, he uses sign language as an inspiration, tool and way of moving in his dance. He not only uses it for making movements, he also adds it into the pieces. By doing this he combines the two worlds, dance and deaf together.
Recently he also made a piece about online miscommunication. Which was performed on a secondary school.
Dennis is currently active as a dancer/performer in different projects. Also he joins projects for different companies and participates in LAB’s. In these projects (national and international) Dennis brings in his background as a deaf person.
Dennis is active in the dance inclusion field. He believes dance is for everyone and everyone has the ability to move, so to dance. Every body is different and they all bring something new to this world. That is the beauty of dance inclusion, the variety of people.
In the future, Dennis will be focussing on working with people with hearing impairments.
Origins in Colombia
2007 – 2009
ConCuerpos was established following Colombia’s first integrated dance workshop in 2007 with UK choreographers Charlotte Darbyshire and Welly O’Brien (supported by the British Council).
Formalized as a non-profit in 2009 by Laisvie Andrea Ochoa, Paulina Avellaneda, and Carolina Caballero, the company pioneered inclusive contemporary dance as an artistic, educational, and research-based practice.
Artistic Research & Global Tour Repertory
2010 – 2020
Across five distinct casts, ConCuerpos developed an extensive international tour history, collaborating with guest choreographers like Sarah Storer, Victoria Marks, Natalia Orozco and Valerie Green, creating groundbreaking works presented in Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, Peru, and Scotland.
In 2019, under the co-direction of Laisvie Andrea Ochoa and Diana León, the company launched its core artistic research into the Aesthetic of Access.
Aesthetic of Access & First Dutch Tour
2021 – 2022
ConCuerpos premiered IRA (2021) at Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo, introducing a triptych format centered on Universal Accessibility.
After showcasing at the Gathered Together Festival 2022 in Glasgow, the company performed for the first time in the Netherlands and later in Uruguay, setting the stage for its European base.
Expansion to the Netherlands
2023-2024
ConCuerpos expanded its activities to the Netherlands in 2023 establishing a first group of artist: Dennis Massar, Anneloes van Schuppen and Kamee Frieling, under the leadership of General Director Laisvie Andrea Ochoa. They started with an artistic laboratory called Trees & Balloons (2023) and the short piece What you Left Me (2024).
International collaboration & Dutch Creations
2025 – Present
With a dual presence in Colombia and the Netherlands, ConCuerpos develops works where accessibility is built directly into performance dramaturgy:
In 2025 the company did a Major international co-production between Colombian and Dutch artists resulting in the work FOCARIS.
After its acclaimed premier in Bogota, the international enamel meet agin in 2026 to tour the work in Scotland (Gathered Together Festival) and the Netherlands (Korzo theatre)
At the moment the Dutch cast is in creation process, to set the dutch version of FOCARIS