Marijke Eliasberg is a native of the Netherlands, and Founder and Co-Artistic Director of her dance troupe; The Next Stage Project (TNSP). She has been dancing, teaching and choreographing for the past 26 years in New York City. With TNSP, she travels around the world, teaching, creating, mentoring and making exchange and performance projects possible.
Marijke holds a BFA in physical education with a specialization in dance. She continued her modern dance studies at the Rotterdam Dance Academy (Codarts) in The Netherlands and Dance Space Inc. in NYC. Marijke is teaching and sharing her Tai Chi Chuan learnings from Chinese Great Grandmaster William C. C. Chen, with whom she has been studying intensely for many years. Her form studies include: 60 Movements Short Form, Long Form, Form Refinement, Sword Form and Push hands/Sensing hands. For the past years, she also has been assisting GGM Chen with his online and in-person classes and workshops in New York, Bloomington, Saratoga and Washington.