ABOUT

Naam :  Valery Bouwknegt

Email: valerybouwknegt@hotmail.nl

Date of birth: January 27th, 2001

Instagram: valerybouwknegt

City: The Netherlands

 

SIZES

Height: 1,65 cm         

Eye: Blue

Hair: Blonde 

Nationality: Dutch

 

But it all started in 2012. Here is her story from the very beginning.

 

Valery Bouwknegt (2001) was born in the Netherlands. When she was five she started with dancing and karate. Her first dance lessons were at Arabesque . Till 2011

Valery took karate lessons at Sportschool Frank v/d/ Nieuwendijk.

She even got three Dutch titles, and the black-belt in 2015

 

In 2012 she took classes at Global Dance Centre Amsterdam. Her first class was from the choreographer Shaker. She also liked the classes from Kenzo Alvares. One of her biggest inspiration.

In that same year Valery auditioned  for the dutch TV-show AVRO Junior Dance. In the final-episode she took the 4th Place.

That was the official start of her dance adventure. 

After Junior Dance Valery danced for CoolCat (clothing-store), Eurovision Songfestival and danced with the rapper Yes-R at Het Gouden Televizier-Ring (it's like Grammy Awards). She also danced in the Music Video L.O.V.E. from the dutch artist Aliyah. A year later she competed at So You Think You Can Dance : The Next Generation. She reached the Top 30.

 

SYTYCD : TNG gave her another boost in her dance adventure. She danced in many Music Video's from dutch artists. (Aliyah, Donovan, Olivier Bangi, Roberto Da Costa, Laura Kaam, Kim Regasa). Valery was an extra in the dutch movie : Heksen Bestaan Niet. 

Even Timor Steffens asked Valery to dance with him for Dance Dance Dance She also performed at The Voice of Holland, Dance4Life,  World of Dance,  HipHop Kingz