Sharon Wesseling
Nominated for the Innovation Award Nederlandse Dansdagen Maastricht 2025
About Sharon
Sharon Wesseling (Heerlen, 1994) is a choreographer, dancer and teacher. Even though a chronic middle ear infection at a young age and fourteen operations on her hearing resulted in permanent hearing damage, she became world champion with her hip-hop team.
In 2019 she graduated as a performing artist from Fontys Academy of the Arts in Tilburg, after which she developed as a choreographer at talent development organization Via Zuid.
In 2022, she founded dance company 20Hertz together with music producer and business manager Floris Mentink. By integrating elements of sign language into dance, emphasizing rhythm and expression and adding low music frequencies, 20Hertz creates unique dance performances that are also accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing: both as dancers and as visitors.
