In his younger years he was dancing hip hop, street dance, electric boogie, Latin dance and ballroom dance. He started line dancing at a local club in Amsterdam, but soon he saw Roy Verdonk dancing on television and joint Roy at his club.
Soon after this, Raymond grew to become a overall performer and joined Roy and Tom Mickers in their theatre show ( The devil went to Georgia). For a couple of years Raymond also was dancing in the Country Dynamics group who travelled around Europe for shows and workshops.
He created his own style by mixing his Latin dancing and street dancing into line dance, he was one of the first who was dancing more than only the feet, he was dancing with the body.
This gave him the nickname: The Latin Man.
Raymond started to write some shows for the Country Dynamics and choreographies with Roy and Darren Bailey.
Some dances they wrote together are: Love is in the air, Missing you, Push up, Love bug, Blame it on the boogie, Billy Jean, Mala Mujer, Radar love and many more.
All this got him up to the highest level in competition dancing the Superstar division.
Raymond is the oldest male Superstar in the world. Raymond is European Champion, Benelux Champion, Norwegian Champion, Swiss Champion, Swedish Champion, Belgium Champion, German Champion, Dutch Champion, France Champion in many different divisions, he is also 18 times World Champion, from those 18 times it is 15 times in the choreography division.
He is the only one who won 3 World titles at 1 World Championship in the category choreography and he did this twice. Raymond was called out in 2004 and in 2006 at the Dutch line dance awards (who is been held only once in the 2 years) as the best Dutch choreographer.
At the World Championship in 2005 in Sweden, Raymond was Chosen as the peoples favourite choreographer.
Raymond is travelling around Europe to teach, judge and show his dances and to share his passion for dancing with other people.
Raymond Sarlemijn has choreographed 347 dances, of which 256 have been co-choreographed. Their first published stepsheet on CopperKnob is La Cumbia from October 2007, with their most recent stepsheet of A-O in December 2024.
Additionally, Raymond Sarlemijn had a CopperKnob no.1 dance in July 2024 with Roots, and has recently had 13 other dances in the top 10.
Chorégraphe Stepsheets
32 Compte 4 Mur Improver Musique: Sweat (A La La La La Long) - Inner Circle
32 Compte 2 Mur Improver Musique: You're the Only One - Keith Urban
32 Compte 4 Mur Intermediate Musique: 3 to Tango - Pitbull
32 Compte 4 Mur Improver Musique: Kiri Külmkapi Peal - Stefan
32 Compte 4 Mur High Improver Musique: Try Everything - Home Free
32 Compte 4 Mur Improver Musique: All Night Long - Tom Dice
32 Compte 4 Mur Novice Musique: All Night Long - Tom Dice
32 Compte 4 Mur Beginner Musique: Agua y fuego - Belle Perez
32 Compte 4 Mur Débutant Musique: Agua y fuego - Belle Perez
32 Compte 4 Mur Improver Musique: Fuego - Alejandro Fuentes : (original version, not english)
32 Compte 4 Mur Novice Musique: Fuego - Alejandro Fuentes
32 Compte 4 Mur Intermediate Musique: Alena - Claydee
64 Compte - Mur Basic Samba Musique: All My People by Dj Rico
32 Compte - Mur Improver Musique: Always - Aysel : (Single)
32 Compte 4 Mur Intermediate Musique: Angie - Sammy Kershaw : (CD: Covers The Hits)
32 Compte 4 Mur Beginner Musique: Arrogante - Irama
32 Compte 2 Mur Intermediate Musique: Back It Up - Caro Emerald
32 Compte 2 Mur Intermediate Musique: Back It Up - Caro Emerald
32 Compte 4 Mur Improver - Funky Musique: Hollywood Tonight - Michael Jackson
112 Compte 1 Mur Phrased Intermediate Musique: Baddest Girl in Town (feat. Mohombi & Wisin) (International Remix) - Pitbull
