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Boy & ballet dancerStudent at Lunds Dans- och Musikalgymnasium in Sweden

… his name is ’Mathijs’ .

Location: cellar at Radio Royaal in Eindhoven | Area Strijp S

A Dancer's Prayer

Dear angel, ever at my sideBe there today, my feet to guide

Help me dance high, and light, and free …So everyone will be proud of me

May the judges be fair and the stages be spaciousIn winning and losing let me be gracious

So that every dance I'll remember with prideAnd angel, please keep my shoelaces tied

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© All rights reserved | Photographer Yvon van Rijswijk

Location: cellar at Radio Royaal in Eindhoven | Area Strijp S

Just to dance ... just to let the music take you

in a way that seems to make you

feel suspended everytime you leave the floor... Just to soar ... in a moment free and aerial

to rise magically ethereal, like an angel in a gossamery swirl...

Just to whirl ...

and to nimbly pirouette

into a twirling silhouette,high on pointe

with muscles taut down to your toes...

Location: City park in Eindhoven | Area Stratum

Location: City park in Eindhoven | Area Stratum

Just to pose … with body sculpted, statuesque

to excute an arabesque

and with fragile artful grace, sustain your stance

Just to prance... to step in flawless syncopation

with the corps in tight formation

marking time with every heartbeat, every turn...

Just to yearn ...

to be poetry in motion

Location: Outside Radio Royaal in Eindhoven | Area Strijp S

and, with disciplined devotion

to create a thing of beauty and romance...

Just to dance …

Poem by Linda Staten

Strife, talent, joy,Determination and beauty

I am a dancer

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Location: City heart of Eindhoven | the building is called ”The Blob”

M a t h i j s v a n D o o r m a l e n , d a n c e r

Location: City heart of Eindhoven | Piazza

© All rights reserved | Photographer Yvon van Rijswijk

Location: City heart of Eindhoven, Netherlands

Location: Cityheart of Eindhoven | the building is called ”The Blob”

Location: City heart of Eindhoven | Boschdijktunnel

Location: City heart of Eindhoven | the building is called ”The Blob”

Location: City heart of Eindhoven | Vestdijktunnel

© All rights reserved | Photographer Yvon van Rijswijk

Location: City heart of Eindhoven | Vestdijktunnel

Location: the cellar at Radio Royaal in Eindhoven | Area Strijp S

© All rights reserved | Photographer Yvon van Rijswijk

Location: City heart of Eindhoven | Piazza

Boy & ballet dancer | Mathijs van Doormalen in 2012© all rights reserved | Photo’s by Yvon van Rijswijk

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