Marc Jonkers has been working sucessfully in the field of dancing for more than 25 years now. He received his dance education in Utrecht, The Hague (both Netherlands) and at the Martha Graham School in New York (USA) before launching a distiguished career in dancing, choreography and dance education. He taught modern dance at the Pedagogic Academy Tilbury, the State University Utrecht, the Amsterdam University and the Dance Academy of the Theatre High School in Amsterdam (all located in the Netherlands).  

He has a vast experience in organizing and managing
national and international dance projects and workshops.
Marc Jonkers founded and organized from 1978 to 1985 the Dancecentre Utrecht. From 1978 to 1985 he was the artistic director and cofounder of the international dance festival "Springdance" in Utrecht (Netherlands). From 1985 until 1994 he was the artistic director of danceprograms at the "Holland Festival" - the biggest and notably most internationally recognized festival in the Netherlands.

In 1987 he founded the "Holland Dance Festival" that he also organzized until 1995. On these occasions he closely collaborated with Jirí Kylián and the "Nederlands Dans Theater".

In 1994 he was appointed director of the "Tanztheater der Komischen Oper" in Berlin (Germany), a position he held until 1999. In 1997 Marc Jonkers was elected president of the World Dance Alliance Europe.

In 1998 he initiated the foundation of the "Bundesdeutsche Ballett- and Tanztheaterdirektorenkonferenz", BBTK, a alliance for dancetheater and ballet directors in Germany. He has served as their speaker since then.

Since 1997 he is the artistic director of the International Dance Festival NRW. After the successful edition of 1998 and 2000, he turned down the offer to direct the ITF again in 2002.

From January 2001 until August 2002 Marc was the Artistic Director of Companhia Nacional de Bailado (The National Ballet of Portugal), Lisbon/Portugal.

From the 1st of July 2003 he became the General Manager of the Limburg Foundation for the Promotion Dance in the Netherlands.

Marc Jonkers is a highly respected jury member in international choreography and dance competitions. As artistic director he has collaboratd with many of todays leading choreographers and companies as:
Hans van Manen and Jirí Kylián (Nederlands Dans Theater), William Forsythe (Ballett Frankfurt), Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker (Rosas), Pina Bausch (Tanztheater Wuppertal), Ohad Naharin (Batsheva Dance Company), Mats Ek (Cullberg Ballet), Michael Baryshnikov (White Oak Dance Company), Juan Carlos Garcia (Lanonima-Imperial-Barcelona), Amanda Miller (Pretty Ugly Dance Company), Michael Clark, Itzik Galili und Paul Selwyn Norton (Het Nationale Ballett, Amsterdam), Stephen Petronio and Dancers, Philippe Découflé (D.C.A., Paris), Martino Müller, Ted Brandsen and Krzysztof Pastor (Donauballett '95), the New York City Ballet under Peter Martins, the School of American Ballet (New York) and the "Akademie Vaganova" (St. Petersburg) and many others.

Contact Marc Jonkers:
Mobile Netherlands: +31-652347843