Martin van Bentem
Martin van Bentem (born March 15, 1980 in Alkmaar , Netherlands ) is a Dutch musical performer and dancer .
biography
Martin van Bentem enjoyed intensive training in Latin American dance. Among other things, he took private lessons at the Marcella van Altena dance club with Louis van Amstel, the former world champion in Latin American dance. He received singing lessons from Mieke Westra . He took part in several national and international dance competitions, became Dutch youth champion in 1996 and came second at the Dutch Championship Professionals Latin American Show Dance in 2001. Martin van Bentem also likes jazzy rhythms, flamenco and tango .
The Dutchman has already stood in front of the camera with Linda de Mol for the TV show Home Run and is also known to the German audience. In the anniversary broadcast of the previous evening series Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten and in the Sat.1 show Who will marry a millionaire? he was seen as a dancer.
Career
The artist gained his first musical experience in 2001 in the Dutch production of Saturday Night Fever as an ensemble dancer and cover for the role of the Latin American dancer "Cesar Rodriguez". Also in the Netherlands and in City Center New York, he played a dancer in Latin Fusion in 2002 and a bolero dancer in the musical Copacabana until May 2003.
In 2003 he had his first engagement in a musical in Germany, he danced in the ensemble in the production of Miami Nights in the Düsseldorf Capitol Theater . Then van Bentem was hired as a dancer for the TV shows Star Duell and the RTL chart show . In the musical Saturday Night Fever he was on tour stations in Munich , Basel and Düsseldorf as the first cast of "Cesar Rodriguez" until January 2006.
From March 2006 he was seen as "Johnny Castle" in Dirty Dancing - The Original Live on Stage at the Neue Flora Theater in Hamburg .
On December 9th, 2007 he played his last show in Hamburg and then switched to Dirty Dancing - het onvergetelijke verhaal nu in het theater to Holland, where he started on March 9th, 2008 (premiere) as "Johnny Castle" in the Beatrix Theater in Utrecht was seen.
Web links
- Official homepage of Martin van Bentem
- Dirty Dancing - the Original Live on Stage (Hamburg)
- Dirty Dancing - het onvergetelijke verhaal nu in het theater (Utrecht)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bentem, Martin van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch dancer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alkmaar , the Netherlands |