Mieke van Hoek
Dance choreographer and teacher
The Dutch-born van Hoek taught modern-dance choreography and dance improvisation at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie.
After emigrating to the United States in 1977, van Hoek worked as a teaching assistant at the American Dance Festival in Durham, N.C., and studied at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute in New York.
She founded a center for meditation, healing and the arts in Canones in 2000.
