Connor Schumacher
Connor Schumacher is founder and artistic leader of Stichting ARK.
Connor has developed as a dance artist under the wings of Dansateliers. Here he made The Fool (2015), Asset, Liability and Equity (2016), Exhibition (2017), OK Future (2017), THREESOME (2019) and Funny Soft Happy & The Opposite (2019). Connor's social choreographic practice developed through his participation in several European research projects, including Performing Gender, Dancing Museums and Empowering Dance. in which he searched for new ways of interaction with an audience and the soft skills people can develop through dance. In 2019 he won the Prize of the Nederlandse Dansdagen.
It is his deep belief that society would be better if we danced everyday.
Dansateliers
Dansateliers receives structural subsidy from the Performing Arts Fund from 2021 - 2024. With this support, the ARK/Connor Schumacher and Dansateliers will continue to work together on equal footing in a mutual relationship towards a world in which there is room for every body.
Dansateliers in Rotterdam is an independent house for the development of dance and a home for dance artists in development. The organization supports emerging choreographers in finding their artistic signature and works with four associate dance artists, including Connor Schumacher.
ARK Team
Connor Schumacher
Artistic leader
photo's: Aqueene Wilson
Delta Lowe
Producer
Karina van Bezooijen
Business manager
Creative producer
“With his work, Connor Schumacher connects and engages the public more and more. His performances are exciting, seek interaction and show the human dimension, in which a deep connection is leading. This maker is unique in making the audience see dance from a different lens and let the audience feel what dance can mean.”
Jury report Prijs van de
Nederlandse Dansdagen 2019
Nederlandse Dansdagen 2019
“Schumacher playfully and wittyly stretches our mental stamina, so that we can withstand the maddening mill of life that spins faster and faster. His energetic piece makes you think playfully about which skills are needed to be a well-equipped human today. How do we train them?”
★★★★ Volkskrant, 2019 about
Funny Soft Happy & The Opposite
Funny Soft Happy & The Opposite
“Can you roll up together in an hour and a half, something which is normally allowed to go on all night? (...) Schumacher succeeds because he cleverly builds up his work from a receptive attitude, conducts his audience in an inviting manner, and uses the right music at the right time – and okay, and also because such a night of dancing in a weird way seems to fold time.”
Wendy Lubberding,
Theaterkrant (2020) about Pilot PC
Theaterkrant (2020) about Pilot PC
“When it comes to stylized aesthetics and witty energy, Connor Schumacher never disappoints. Funny Soft Happy & The Opposite is somewhere between a live tutorial and a TV show, a colorful trip, a talent show, a self-help ad and a worship service with hidden rules.”
Lucia Santoro Fernandez
Movement Exposed (2019) about Funny Soft Happy & The Opposite
Movement Exposed (2019) about Funny Soft Happy & The Opposite