The Honorable 2026 Jury 

Artistic Director Henny Jurriëns Studio Evan, the artistic director of the Henny Jurriëns Studio in Amsterdam is a native of Los Angeles, California, Evan received his education from The Juilliard School, in New York City. He has worked with various companies including Thang Dao Dance Company (USA), Tanzcompagnie Konzert Theater Bern (CH), National Dance Company Wales (UK), Grand Théâtre de Genève (CH) and Cie Opinion Public (BE) to name a few. Evan has performed works by Pina Bausch, Ohad Naharin, Marcos Morau, Roy Assaf, Twyla Tharp, and Martha Graham, amongst others. He has danced across the United States, Europe, Asia, as well as the Middle East. Some of his achievements include the Martha Hill Prize and the YoungArts Scholarship, presented by the National Foundation of Advancements in the Arts.

Teacher at the Royal Conservatoire, Den Haag Marjolein studied at the Nationale Ballet Academy Amsterdam. Continued her career in Israel. She danced with the Israel Ballet in Tel Aviv, Manhattan Ballet in New York. She danced in several projects in the Netherlands and had her own studio in The Hague. She was head of the dance department at Katzir Highschool, and a regular guest teacher at Kamea Dance Company and the Maslool-Professional Dance Program TLV.She is currently Ballet and Progressing Ballet Technique teacher at Royal Conservatoire Dance.

Movement Coach at ArtEZ Dance Artist & Coordinator of the Mosa Ballet School Contemporary Program Ime Essien-Hassel is the Contemporary Program Coordinator at Mosa Balllet School in Belgium and a regular teacher/coach at ArtEZ Dance Artist program. She was trained as a stage dancer and dance teacher at the École Française de Ballet (Bonn) and the New City Dance School (Stuttgart). She worked as a dancer and singer in various musicals, rock operas and in modern musical theater in Germany. After her internship with the contemporary dance company Conny Janssen Danst in Rotterdam (NL) in 1992, Ime worked for Charleroi Danse/ Plan K in Belgium and with the Tanzcompagnie Gießen in Germany. There she worked first as a dancer, then as a rehearsal director and choreographic assistant in. This was followed by a 7-year engagement as artistic rehearsal director (RD) with NorrDans in Härnösand (SE), and subsequently as guest RD with the Staatstheater Bielefeld (D), the Theater St. Gallen, as RD & ensemble coach with Skånes Dansteater in Malmö (SE) and assisting Jasper van Luijk (NL) in creation for the ArtEZ Bachelor of Dance in Arnhem (NL). Since 2000 and 2007 Ime Essien-Hassel has been studying and working with the essential-communication approach Process Inquiry®, the movement inquiry through Dansergia®, and as a Change Catalyst®. This work and more forms the methodological basis for I.M.E. InnerMovementEvolution, the holistic approach for personal authentic performance quality and physicality that she teaches. Since 2004 Ime Essien-Hassel taught and worked as a dance teacher and movement coach in contemporary dance companies, colleges of dance and open dance studios internationally – in Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland & Tanzania, and was part of the former Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet (US) Germany tour 2010. I.M.E. InnerMovementEvolution is embedded in the curriculum of the ArtEZ Bachelor of Dance in Arnhem/The Netherlands since 2005, with the main courses “Process Inquiry® in Dance”, Essence Work, Physical Musicality and Inner Architecture. Besides, it develops further to support personal development and healing through energy-movement understanding also for non-professional dancers and every-body. Ime Essien-Hassel is a certified ContaKids Teacher.

Iqbal was born in England, but is currently based in Amsterdam with his family. He studied in England and danced, amongst others, for the Israel Ballet, Hannover Staatsoper and retired as a dancer from Het National Ballet after nine years at the age of 37. Iqbal can still be found occasionally gracing the stage whilst performing as a character artist for the National Ballet. After quitting as a professional dancer, he embarked upon a teaching career and has worked as a classical ballet teacher/mentor/tutor/repetitor at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Codarts, Artez, HJS, Dansateliers, Dansetages, De Stilte and Scapino.