Kadin Vanden Heuvel is a Chinese Canadian dance artist based in London and has dedicated over 20 years and counting of her life to her passion for dance. She utilizes jazz technique and acrobatics into her movement vocabulary and displays qualities that are animalistic and rooted. Her passion for making art accessible for all and sharing the joy of dance with the next generation is of particular interest to her practice as she understands the vitality art has on a community and to the education of young peoples. Kadin takes inspiration from the stories of her family history and her own struggle of finding her voice and identity as an adoptee from a Pan-Pacific country with no records of ancestry to be found.
Kadin is a graduate of the MA Dance: Performance programme at LCDS, where she was a member of Cohort 02. During the programme she worked with project leaders such as Dickson Mbi Company, Alexander Whitley Dance Company, Theo Clinkard, Steve Kirkham, Holly Blakey, Hannes Langolf, Seke Chimutengwende, Benjamin Jonsson, Rakesh Sukesh and Alleyne Dance under the course leadership of Tom English, Tina Afiyan Breiova and Dr Andrew Sanger, working closely with individual mentor David Kam.
The course really opened my eyes to the possibilities of what a freelance dance career could look like. Each project offered a new challenge and perspective that inspired me to dive deeper into my artistry connecting it to my ‘why’