Refined Performing Arts
The Refined team together in the studio, in everyday clothes against a blue lit backdrop

About Refined

The people behind the shows

A Dubai based entertainment and creative agency: professional artists, original concepts and complete shows, created from start to finish.

Our founder

It started on the stage

Refined started from Laura’s own background in the entertainment industry. She trained as a dancer for twelve years at different schools and graduated from the Lucia Marthas Institute for Performing Arts in the Netherlands. She worked as a professional dancer, performing in showgirl productions across the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. She knows the industry from the artist’s side first.

After moving to Dubai she started working in the entertainment scene here, and saw room to do things differently. She wanted an agency that did more than supply artists, one involved in the full creative process, from the first idea to what the audience finally sees.

What began with dancers and bookings grew into complete concepts for venues and events: costumes, choreography, shows and visual concepts, developed in house.

Today Laura is the creative engine behind Refined: show creation, costume design, casting, and putting the whole show together.

Laura performing as a showgirl in a pink and white ostrich feather headdress and crystal costume
Laura, founder of Refined Performing Arts, seated on a stool in a navy pinstriped dress against a pale studio background

The team

The people behind Refined

Trusted by

How we work

What makes Refined different

  1. We create from scratch

    A show starts as an idea and a drawing, not a booking. We build the concept, the choreography, the costumes and the overall look around the venue and the event.

  2. We bring costumes to life

    What we draw gets made. Our costumes are designed and produced in our own studio in Dubai. Headpieces, accessories and finishing included.

  3. Never seen before

    Because a piece is built for one concept, it isn’t something the audience has seen at another venue. Nothing is pulled from standard entertainment stock.

Cover of the Refined costume lookbook: a performer in a black feathered headdress and crystal costume

Costume collection

Download our Lookbook 2026

The full 2025/2026 collection, from festival and bohemian pieces to cabaret and statement showpieces. Everything in it can be rented or bought, and we make custom collections from a blank page.

PDF · 38 pages · 8 MB

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Next step

Let’s talk

Tell us the venue, the date and the idea. We take it from there.