DAS GRADUATE SCHOOL - Key Persons
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- DAS Choreography Staff Member
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- Researcher / Department / DAS Research
Amanda Piña is Mexican-Chilean and Viennese, working in choreography and dance related research. She curates and teaches in the frame of performing and visual arts, writes and edits publications currently on endangered movement practices. Since 2008 she works as artistic direction of the association nadaproductions and of the art space nadaLokal, in Vienna. She lives between Vienna and Mexico City.
Her choreographic work is interested in the political and social power of movement, featuring non-western references and perspectives. She is interested in developing new frameworks for the embodiment of a decolonial aesthesis.
Her current research and artistic project Endangered Human Movements, is dedicated to dances and cultural practices that have already vanished or are threatened with extinction. Four volumes of research have been already realized, including three publications featuring essays on the topics of movement, decoloniality, traditional and contemporary art, shamanism and First Nations forms of relating with animals plants and the earth.
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- Programmer Dance Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
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- Research Group Embodied Knowledge in Theatre and Dance
- Researcher / Department / DAS Research
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- Head Producing Departments and Project Leader
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- Researcher / Department / DAS Research
Carly Everaert has designed costumes for more than 200 stage productions, ranging from huge operas to intimate dialogues, in the Netherlands and Germany. Her costumes are extremely colorful (‘I used to describe myself as painter,'), literally and figuratively multi-layered (many of them are collages of found clothing materials, tailored to fit each actor's body - ‘their bodies are my inspiration') and gender fluid (see interview).
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- Artistic Coordinator Summer School
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- Production & Stage Manager
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- Artist
- Researcher / Department / DAS Research
Beyond her work in IPOP, Elioa is an artist working in the fields of performance, facilitation, and curation. Her work focuses on the intersection of communal narratives, cultural norms, and systemic violence. With over 10 years of experience as a facilitator, Elioa crafts encounters that investigate the relationships between personal needs and communal truths. Heavily influenced by queer art lineages, Elioa's work melds critical theory, camp, and drag in participatory performances that question audiences' relationships to each other, power, and the state.
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- Head IDlab and Information and Communication Technology in Education
Head IDlab and information and communication technology in education: Erik Lint, 020- 527 7809
Esther Arribas is een bewegingskunstenaar en onderzoeker die werkt met dans, somatics, theorie, performance, schrijven en video. Hun werk stelt het queeren van lichaam en bewegingspatronen voor als een manier om kennis te produceren en als een manier om somatisch bewustzijn kritisch te benaderen. Esther werkt met verschillende noties van speelsheid en plezier om anders te leren en als instrumenten voor politieke positionering. Hun praktijk en pedagogische benadering zijn ontwikkeld door het geven van bewegingsonderzoek cursussen, het faciliteren van workshops voor niet-dansers, en het internationaal en gezamenlijk presenteren van werk.
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- Researcher / Department / DAS Research
Esther Snelder (Drempt, 1971) graduated in 1997 in the direction Mime at the Faculty of Theatre of the Amsterdam School of the Arts and in 1998 as teacher in Mime. Since then she has worked as a performer with many dance and theatre makers, such as Kassys, Nicole Beutler, Jerome Bel, Sanne van Rijn, Magne van den Berg, De Gemeenschap and Jetse Batelaan. Esther works as a teacher and adviser at the Amsterdam Mime School, teaches performance and Alexander Technique at the ArtEZ School of the Arts in Arnhem and is acting coach for the musicians of company Oorkaan. Esther followed the three-year teachers training in the Alexander Technique and gives private lessons in this technique since 2017.
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- Artistic Director, Tutor
- Staff
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- Artistic Director
- Artistic Director of DAS Theatre
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- DAS Choreography Staff Member
- Director
- Member of the Board
- Artistic Director / Tutor
- Artistic Leader
He was head of department of the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) from 2000-2002, and has been teaching Dance History and Art and Society among other subjects since 1991 at SNDO.
He is doing his PhD with the University of Utrecht (working title: Micropolitics of Choreographic Address: Closely watching moving bodies).
He has been involved as an advisor in artistic projects of Lina Issa, Mette Ingwartsen, Aitana Cordero, Pere Faura, Keren Levi and Andrea Božić. He is member of the board of BAU, an organization/platform for the independent dance and performance scene of Amsterdam.
Jeroen Fabius, artistic director and tutor of DAS Choreography since 2002, and a such member of the board of DAS Graduate School since 2016.
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- Design & Technology and Technical Production AD
Jerry van der Kooi for Design & Technology and Technical Production AD +31 (0)20-527 7621 jerry.vanderkooi@ahk.nl
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- Programme Coordinator & Financial Coordinator
- Staff
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- Coordinator Projects and Performances
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- Researcher / Department / DAS Research
Joy Brandsma is a Dutch-Rwandese queer visual anthropologist, curator, and filmmaker. She has a bachelor's degree in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and a master's degree in Cultural Anthropology - Visual Track (UvA). The result of this masters is the film ‘Dancing in Captivity'. It shows dancers that use queering to radically question the heteronormative world, which is racially skewed towards straight white men (and white women who keep in line). This film has been screened at the International Queer & Migrant Festival, the Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival, and the Academy of Theater and Dance Amsterdam. Currently, she is working on a documentary project called ‘A Thousand Colors'. This project centres on bridging a gap between a younger and older generation of BIPOC queers and archiving material from the older generation queer people. Within DAS Graduate School she's doing research on the 5 o'clock class and doing research within the Climate Imaginaries programme.
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- Staff
- Student Counsellor & Coach
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- Research Group Embodied Knowledge in Theatre and Dance
- Researcher / Department / DAS Research
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- Advisor
- DAS Choreography Staff Member
- Tutor
Konstantina Georgelou is an Amsterdam-based performing arts theorist, dramaturg and researcher. She teaches in the Department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University where she also received her PhD in 2011, and in DAS Theatre, while she collaborates with a number of theatres, dance production houses and Universities for the Arts in the Netherlands and abroad.
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- Head
- Lecturer
- Head of DAS Graduate School, Lector DAS Research
- Maoilearca - Lector & Head
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- Head Policy / Academy Secretary
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- Researcher / Department / DAS Research
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- Research Group Embodied Knowledge in Theatre and Dance
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- Artistic Director
- Teacher
- Staff
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- Coordinator Bachelor Programme
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- Research Group Embodied Knowledge in Theatre and Dance
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- Research Group Embodied Knowledge in Theatre and Dance
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- Research Group Embodied Knowledge in Theatre and Dance
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- Research Group Embodied Knowledge in Theatre and Dance
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- Senior Advisor Personnel and Organization a.I.
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- Chairman & Facilities Officer
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- Assistant Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Amsterdam ( UVA )
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- Research Group Embodied Knowledge in Theatre and Dance