DAS Theatre

We are now open for applications! DAS Graduate School's two year Master's Programmes, DAS Theatre and DAS Choreography are open for applications for 2025-2027. Apply by 12 November 2024.

About DAS Choreography
Artists who have established a professional practice, and seek possibilities for further reflection and development can increase their research skills at DAS Choreography. This two-year low-residential master’s programme of the Amsterdam University of the Arts aims to contribute to the field of critical and contemporary dance practice.

About DAS Theatre
DAS Theatre is a full-time, two-year Master of Art programme in performing arts. DAS Theatre welcomes theatre makers, performance artists, curators… of all nationalities who wish to deepen, broaden or shift their existing practices.DAS Theatre is an environment where a temporary community of peers are invited to become sensitive to each other and to the world; a community that uses theatre as a space for reflection, transformation and action.

Find out more at the link in our bio 🔗

**Reserve a spot for our Summer Presentations!!**

At the end of the first year, DAS Theatre students open the doors to their studios and share their artistic research with a wider audience. This year's Summer Presentations take place on Wednesday June 19th and Thursday 20th at DAS Graduate School.

The presentations will take place between 17h and 22h at DAS Graduate School, Overhoeksplein 2, Amsterdam.
You can sign up for each evening, and will be given a trajectory so that you can see all of the works for that day.

The works you can see during the Summer Presentations are first attempts, experiments, sketches and surprises, prepared by the students in a short amount of time. Come and see what’s brewing and bubbling in the studios of this next generation of artists!

Our current 1st year students are Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure, Jana Jacuka, Sam Scheuermann, Zahra Mohseni, Eva Lou and Veronika Abdul-Visocka.

Book your spot on our website! Please note the system will ask you to log in, before offering the option of booking a ticket.

Summer Presentations 2024 At the end of the first year, DAS Theatre students open the doors to their studios and share their artistic research with a wider audience. This year's Summer Presentations take place on Wednesday June 19th and Thursday 20th at DAS Graduate School. Check out our schedule and book your spot now!

This year is the 30th anniversary of DasArts / DAS Theatre.
And we will celebrate it on 30 November 2024!
If you studied or worked at DasArts / DAS Theatre and haven’t received our ’save the date’ email for the reunion, please send a DM with your private email address.

Please also forward this message to anyone you know that should be there to celebrate our anniversary with us!

At the end of the first year, DAS Theatre students open the doors to their studios and share their artistic research with a wider audience. This year's Summer Presentations take place on Wednesday June 19th and Thursday 20th at DAS Graduate School.

The works you can see during the Summer Presentations are first attempts, experiments, sketches and surprises, prepared by the students in a short amount of time. Come and see what’s brewing and bubbling in the studios of this next generation of artists!

The presentations will take place between 18h and 22h at DAS Graduate School, Overhoeksplein 2, Amsterdam. The schedule and reservation list will be available shortly!

Our current 1st year students are Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure, Jana Jacuka, Sam Scheuermann, Zahra Mohseni, Eva Lou and Veronika Abdul-Visocka.

You will be able to see the works of Veronika, Soraya and Sam on Wednesday, and Zahra, Jana and Eva on Thursday. You are invited to join us for the evening and follow a route that will take you through the different presentations.

Snacks and drinks will be provided during breaks.

.bruno We’re happy to present you: “What Can Theatre Do”, edited by Silvia Bottiroli and Miguel A. Melgares

BOOK LAUNCH | 25 May at 14.00
SPRING Performing Arts Festival in Utrecht
Don’t miss it 🐻


Miguel A. Melgares
Silvia Bottiroli
DAS Theatre .theatre
DAS Research .research

Copy editing and proofreading: Rosie Heinrich

With texts by:
Laura Call
Ingrid Vranken
Mala Kline
Venuri Perera
Amanda Piña
Rolando Vazquez
Ainhoa Hernández Escudero
Low Kee Hong
Andrej Nosov
Livia Andrea Piazza
Valeria Graziano
Giulia Palladini
Juan Miranda
Mazlum Nergiz
Piersandra Di Matteo
Pankaj Tiwari
Lotte van den Berg
Elioa Steffen
Carolina Bianchi
Ogutu Muraya
Agat Sharma
Suvani Suri
Annalisa Sacchi
Ilenia Caleo
Tom Oliver Jacobson .hollow
nyamnyam (Ariadna Rodríguez, Iñaki Alvarez)
Samara Hersch
Asa Horvitz
Mariana Senne
Lara Staal

Sîpan Sezgin Tekin (Amed/Kurdistan 1996 - TR/NL) is a performer, theatre maker, and storyteller. As an artist and nomad, Tekin's quest for meaning takes shape through a rich blend of performance, music, language, sound, light, and documentary rooted in an oral tradition of narrative and storytelling. The work offers dynamic reflections of political and existential realities, using mythological and real stories to create experimental narrative performances that blur the lines between fiction and reality. By doing so, Tekin focuses on the political dynamics of language as a power dynamic, exploring multilingualism and the embodiment of language in performance in terms of accessibility and narrative diversity. His work is an ongoing research of embodied communicative and sensory potential of language use in order to create experiential theatrical and performative situations.

In ‘THE CUD’, Tekin investigates whether audiences can connect with narrative in unfamiliar languages, probing performativity of language beyond cognitive boundaries, between metaphor and reality. Tekin shares the story of a wild mountain goat, known as 'IBEX,'bringing together his investigations into multilingualism, the performativity of language, and sonic aspects of language. Wild mountain goats are mythological and sacred animals. However, the intention here goes beyond using them as a metaphor. It aims to question the identity-lessness and independence of both IBEX and the human species, by assuming the reality that the physical, biological, and vital conditions can influence each other on a conceptual and physical level.‘THE CUD’ is presented as an experimental narrative, showing transitions between disrupting conventional language structures and immersing audiences in the sensory experience of unfamiliar linguistic embodiment. ‘THE CUD’ is considered a reaction to among other concepts segregating forces of identity, nationality, nationhood, race, gender and colour and conceptualised linguistically.

We are tremendously proud to share with you the programme for this years DAS Theatre Master Research presentations!

🐙This year we will be presenting earlier than usual, in an attempt to shift our focus even more from production and presentation towards research and development. Offering the students the possibility to take further steps within their research and practice after the audience encounter. SO COME AND SHARE THIS MOMENT WITH US!!

🌈When contemplating what connects these artists, ‘synesthesia’ comes to mind: the phenomenon that the stimulation of one sense leads to a secondary sensory experience. *To touch a sound, to hear a vision* is an invitation to feel, to be touched, to open the senses to each other, to find the moments of fluidity in which one sensation can tumble into another.

🫶What these six artistic proposals have in common, is a reach-out to the audience, a desire for a radical invitation, to touch and to be touched, to create a response to a sense of responsibility. Each of these artists, while grappling with the political demands of our turbulent times, looked for ways to bypass the cognitive and work through the senses, understanding the body of the audience as a site of political agency.

After all, like Octavia E. Butler writes in Parable of the Sower:

“All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The only lasting truth
is Change.”

RESERVE YOUR SPOTS HERE --> https://www.atd.ahk.nl/en/theatre-programmes/das-theatre/master-presentations/

Save the date for DAS Theatre's upcoming Master Presentations!

From 18 - 22 March our second year students Aline Olmos Steler, Chun Shing Au, Maarten Heijnens, Patsy Lassbo, Sipan Sezgin Tekin and Mahsa Koochak will share their work.

More information will follow soon.

📸: Thomas Lenden
Performance by: Chun Shing Au

A look back at the Master Presentations from last May. Shown here is: 'big small otherwise' by Isadora Tomasi.

Concept, dramaturgy and direction: Isadora Tomasi in close collaboration with Konstantinos Chatzikypraios & Rita Bifulco �
Performers: Rita Bifulco & Isadora Tomasi
Choeography: Isadora's childhood hip hop teacher, Rita and Isadora
Choreography support and advise: Maciej Sado
Light & set design: Paulina Prokop�
Tube neon lights creation: Otakar Zwartjes
Costume design: Nell Schwan �
Sound design: Isadora Tomasi & Rita Bifulco;
Advisors: Daniela Bershan & Bruno Listopad
Tutor: Miguel Angel Melgares

Special thanks to Fernando Belfiore, Tiana Hemlock-Yensen, Aster Arribas, Genevieve Murphy, Fariborz Karimi, Rebekka Bangerter, Agat Sharma, Wojciech Grudziński, Piotr Urbaniec, ChatGPT, Lara Staal.
Special thanks also to the dead ones, Raffaella Carrà, Monica Vitti, Rita, Maria Pia, Maurizio, Nonna Betty, Nonna Angela and Nonna Stella

Interested in studying at DAS Theatre? Before the application deadline of 9 November 2023 we will host two online information meetings where you can ask questions about the programme, the selection procedure and the application form:

meeting 1: Thursday 19 October 2-4pm (Amsterdam time)
meeting 2: Thursday 2 November 8-10pm (Amsterdam time)
Please register yourself for one of these sessions by sending an email to [email protected]. Afterwards you will receive a link to be able to join the online meeting.

Find out more about our study programme and read the full open call at our website:
https://www.atd.ahk.nl/en/theatre-programmes/das-theatre/

Image credits:
Photography by Thomas Lenden
Performance 'BOW A STUDY' by Wojciech Grudziński

The department DAS Theatre of the Academy of Theatre and Dance (ATD) of the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK) is looking for a
Tutor (Freelance)

As a tutor you have a crucial role in the artistic trajectory of our students. As a professional in the field of theatre and/or performance you coach and support individual student trajectories. You are one of the core discussion partners for students regarding their artistic development. Tutors work in pairs, overseeing a year group and individually monitoring part of the students. You will start November 13.

Are you interested? Please provide a motivation letter and CV by October 13

Go to our website to find out more and apply:

Vacature - Tutor (Freelance) - Academie voor Theater en Dans As a tutor you have a crucial role in the artistic trajectory of our students. As a professional in the field of theatre and/or performance you coach and support individual...

The department DAS Theatre of the Academy of Theatre and Dance (ATD) of the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK) is looking for a
Tutor (Freelance)

As a tutor you have a crucial role in the artistic trajectory of our students. As a professional in the field of theatre and/or performance you coach and support individual student trajectories. You are one of the core discussion partners for students regarding their artistic development. Tutors work in pairs, overseeing a year group and individually monitoring part of the students. You will start November 13.

Are you interested? Please provide a motivation letter and CV by October 13

Go to the link in our bio to find out more and apply.

Congratulations to our graduates!

A is for Agat 💙
F is for Fariborz 💛
I is for Isadora 💜
P is for Piotr 🧡
R is for Rebekka 💚
W is for Wojciech 🩷

♥️

At the end of the first year, DAS Theatre students are invited to open the doors of their studios and share their artistic research with a wider audience. This year's Summer Presentations take place on June 16th and 17th at DAS Graduate School.

Get your tickets through the link in our bio 🔗

The works you can see during the Summer Presentations are first attempts, experiments, sketches and surprises, prepared by the students in a short amount of time. Come and see what’s brewing and bubbling in the studio’s of this next generation of artists!

Our current 1st year students are:
Patsy Lassbo, Mahsa Koochak, Sipan Sezgin Tekin, Aline Olmos Steler, Chun Shing Au, Maarten Heijnens.

You are very welcome to join us between 17:30 and 22:00 on both days at DAS Graduate School, Overhoeksplein 2, Amsterdam.

On Friday you will be able to visit the proposals of Patsy, Maarten, Mahsa, Sipan, and on Saturday you can join Aline, Chun Shing and Maarten.

The duration of each presentation is approximately 45 minutes

Snacks and drinks will be provided during breaks

It's the last day of Master Presentations at DAS Theatre! Go to the link in our bio to find out more and reserve your ticket.

Fariborz Karimi - Oh, wild gazelle, where are you?
Friday May 26: 18:30 - 19:45
Saturday May 27: 15:30 - 16:45
Saturday May 27: 19:30 - 20:45

‘Oh, wild gazelle, where are you?’’ is a collective creation that creates a shared reality of friendship and care, which offers comfort and resilience. The performance challenges the issues of exotification, censorship, and self-censorship in both public and private spaces across various contexts. By exploring the intersections between overlapping spaces, and realities, and meanings of presence and absence, this performance aims to create a collaborative space that avoids the Western tendency to exoticize non-Western art.

The title of the show is taken from a line in Hafiz's poem, ‘The Wild Gazelle’, which will be sung during the performance. 'Oh, wild gazelle, where are you?’ is an invitation to dream together and find solace from the surveillance of our current reality.

This week: Master Presentations at DAS Theatre! Go to the link in our bio to find out more and reserve your ticket.

Rebekka Bangerter - HORROR VACUI
Friday May 26: 20:15 - 21:45
Saturday May 27: 17:30 - 19:00

How do we write the world?

And what can be found in the void?

A live written performance, that invites you to read between the lines and embrace the void. A slowed-down reflection on the power of language and the politicality of writing.

An exploration of the entanglement of human-text-technology, inspired by (techno-)feminist perspectives. What realities do we experience between deleted and edited thoughts, co-imagined creations and our own bodily presence?

In her time at DAS, Rebekka has been trying to understand the performativity of the written word. How does text perform? And how to perform through text? While she is still thinking, typing and doubting, text-generating language models have evolved tremendously and found their way into our everyday use. Producing text has become fast and posthuman, disembodied. But who is reading all of it? And what happens to our imaginary in a semio-capital space of infinite growth?

Please take a /seat/ break.

This week: Master Presentations at DAS Theatre! Go to the link in our bio to find out more and reserve your ticket.

White Gold - Agat Sharma
Please be aware that this presentation takes place at location “de Brakke Grond” (Nes 45, Amsterdam)
Friday May 26: 16:00 - 17:15
Saturday May 27: 15:30 - 16:45

White Gold is a restaging of a traditional folk performance from the Cotton growing regions of Central India. The performance takes place every year in the month of May just before the sowing season begins with the arrival of rain in June. For five consecutive nights the ancient tale of Ruru, S**a and Larynx is performed by the farming community in their unique theatrical style. In the story, Ruru and S**a are two children who are chosen to undertake an epic journey across the Earth to restore their lands that have been disturbed by the untimely landing of an alien Larynx.

This week: Master Presentations at DAS Theatre! Go to the link in our bio to reserve your ticket.

Tomorrow and Wednesday:
BOW A STUDY - Wojciech Grudziński:
Tuesday May 23: 20:15 – 21:45
Wednesday May 24: 18:00 - 19:30

BOW A STUDY arrives from Wojciech Grudziński’s long-term research on the phenomenon of the bow and its choreographic and social dimensions. With a pinch of melancholy, a specific perspective on the tradition of ballet in Eastern and Central Europe is echoed, which mirrors the post-communist new order dominated by power, bravado and neoliberal economy. With his artistic team, Grudziński investigated a legacy of great bows from the history of dance, pointing to the liminal, suspicious, and undefined moments in performance. Through assembled choreography of curtains, dancers, intentional samples, invented and real memories, and exchanges of gifts, both audience and the site of theater are invited into a playful dialogue on hierarchy, vulnerability and gratitude. It is never fully clear who submits, who bows and who dominates and sets the direction of the game. As today, being in debt is desirable, the aim is never to have debts paid off, but to preserve a state of personal indebtedness.

Reserve your ticket for this week's Master Presentations through our website!
https://www.atd.ahk.nl/en/theatre-programmes/das-theatre/master-presentations/

Martedì 23 e mercoledì 24 maggio, DAS Theatre ad Amsterdam presenta i lavori conclusivi del Master Programme per le performing arts dell'Academie voor Theater en Dans. Sarà l'occasione per la prima restituzione di "BOW. A STUDY", indagine sui temi di accettazione e approvazione a cura di Wojciech Grudzinski: ospiteremo prestissimo a Santarcangelo il coreografo e performer polacco grazie al supporto di European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists - EFFEA, cofinanziato dall'Unione Europea, e alla collaborazione con Kunstenfestivaldesarts di Bruxelles e Dublin Theatre Festival.

Nel frattempo... take a bow, the night is over.