Arno Schuitmaker, re-approaching performance art and dance, creates works one has to experience. He is one of the most exciting artists of his generation in The Netherlands with his strong focus on the perception-based relationship between the audience and performers. Through a radical integration of ongoing, perpetual movement with electronic music and light, each of his transdisciplinary performances stretches the way we experience space and time. Feeling like a trance, they are transformative meditations on the depths of our existence. In October 2019, The Way You Sound Tonight, his most recent work, received the award of most impressive dance production by the VSCD. Other acclaimed creations include EXIT (2009), TIDE (2011), The Fifteen Project | DUET (2012), I is an Other (2014), Together_till the end (2015), and the trilogy for three performers WHILE WE STRIVE (2015), I will wait for you (2016) and If You Could See Me Now (2017). The Way You Sound Tonight premiered at the Holland Festival in June 2018.

The performances have been presented at renowned theaters and contemporary performing arts festivals in over 20 countries across Europe, and beyond. Tanz magazine selected him as one of the most promising choreographers in their yearbook 2017 and by Dance Europe he was mentioned as being “one of the leading dance makers in The Netherlands”. He is a winner of the Dioraphte Encouragement Award and of the 2nd jury prize at [re]connaissance 2016.