Background
Adriaan Luteijn was born "s Heer Arendskerke, a village in the southwest of the Netherlands, in 1964.
Adriaan Luteijn was born "s Heer Arendskerke, a village in the southwest of the Netherlands, in 1964.
He trained as a dancer at Fontys Dance Academy in Tilburg. In 1989 he joined the Introdans Ensemble for Youth when it was created, taking a leading position due to his unusual visual appearance and his expressive dance techniques. He retired from dancing in 1998 at the age of 35 and began working as choreographer and teacher.
He has worked with children, people with disabilities and the elderly.
He has traveled widely. He has worked with many dancers and ensembles in the Netherlands and other countries.
He still appears as a guest dancer with Introdans. Adriaan Luteijn is the artistic manager of Introdans Education, which runs a program called "Introdans Interactive".
This involves interactive workshops that teach young people to participate creatively in dance, classes and performances of integrated and disability dance, and youth performances.
In 2008 he was guest speaker at the Ukukhua Komdanso Youth Dance Festival in Durban, South Africa, and this led to a relationship with the Flatfoot Dance Company in which Introdans and Flatfoot visited each other, shared classes and workshops and put on a joint performance in Arnhem in 2010.