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DAS Theatre - Master of Theatre is an international laboratory for professionals working in the conte

DAS Theatre is an international laboratory for professional theatre makers, creative producers, curators and programme makers working in the contemporary performing arts. DAS Theatre is the Master of Theatre programme of the Academy of Theatre and Dance/Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK).

10/09/2026

Sign up for one of our information meetings. Before the application deadline of 5 November 2026 we will host two online information meetings where you can ask questions about the programme, the selection procedure and the application form:
meeting 1: Wednesday October 21, 2–4pm (Amsterdam time)
meeting 2: Wednesday October 28, 8–10pm (Amsterdam time)

For more info go to our website at the link in our bio 🔗

DAS Theatre is an international, full-time, two-year Master of Art programme in performing arts. DAS Theatre welcomes a diversity of practices within the realm of theatre and performance. We create a learning environment for artists who wish to deepen, broaden, or shift their existing practices. We cultivate a temporary community of peers who 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.

DAS Theatre focuses on knowledge generation rather than knowledge transmission, while also seeing itself as a learning institute. We acknowledge that we have a long way to go towards diversifying the school, decolonizing, feminizing, and queering it—and this is a primary commitment.

Image: Soraya Reichl, And If I Could K!ll, 2026. Photo: Thomas Lenden.

15/07/2026

VALUE & RISK

Strategies of teaching practical dramaturgy of contemporary performance.
A symposium
Amsterdam | 22–23 January 2027

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The teaching of practical dramaturgy today takes place within cultural, institutional and political conditions in which the values that have long structured public life are actively being renegotiated, questioned and redefined. These processes do not unfold in a neutral space.

Across different contexts, questions of truth, legitimacy, responsibility and artistic relevance are no longer shared frameworks, but contested fields of meaning. The task of teaching dramaturgy is therefore not simply to transmit methods or knowledge, but to engage with the unstable conditions under which such knowledge becomes meaningful at all. Teaching dramaturgy means working with uncertainty—not as an exception, but as a constitutive condition.

This symposium proposes to think of value and risk as interrelated conditions of pedagogical and artistic practice. Value is approached not as a fixed economic measure, but as orientation: what matters, what guides decisions, what is considered worth investing time, attention and commitment in. Risk is not understood simply as danger, but as the condition through which values become visible, tested, and reconfigured in practice.

Send your proposal (200 words max abstract of the presentation and 200 words max bio) to: [email protected] before September 30th 2026.
You will be notified by October 30th 2026.

The symposium is conceived as a working space for collective exchange on how dramaturgy is taught and transmitted under these conditions.

The sessions will consist of short presentations (max. 15 minutes), demonstrations of methods or exercises, and strategy-based contributions that serve as a basis for discussion.

MORE INFO ON OUR WEBSITE SOON!

The symposium is organised by DAS Theatre, ATD Lectoraat (Amsterdam University of the Arts) and the Master International Dramaturgy (University of Amsterdam), in collaboration with Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig, and KALD (The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague).

Image from Mirror Set-up by Sam Scheuermann

ATD Lectorate Miguel Angel Melgares

23/06/2026

Open Call for Applications! Our two year Master's Programmes, DAS Theatre and DAS Choreography are open for applications for 2027-2029. Apply by 5 November 2026.

DAS Theatre is an international, full-time, two-year Master of Art programme in performing arts. DAS Theatre welcomes a diversity of practices within the realm of theatre and performance. We create a learning environment for artists who wish to deepen, broaden, or shift their existing practices. We cultivate a temporary community of peers who 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.

DAS Theatre focuses on knowledge generation rather than knowledge transmission, while also seeing itself as a learning institute. We acknowledge that we have a long way to go towards diversifying the school, decolonizing, feminizing, and queering it—and this is a primary commitment.

For more info go to our website at the link in our bio 🔗

Image: Soraya Reichl, And If I Could K!ll, 2026. Photo: Thomas Lenden.

17/06/2026

Last week, our first-year DAS Theatre students opened the doors of their studios, inviting audiences into their ongoing research.

In the summer presentations, Robin shared their research on duration, anticipation, expectation, and exhaustion; contemplating them as atmospheric states rather than narrative events. Through sound, media systems, live composition, and performance, he explored what happens when a moment is stretched until it becomes a world of its own, and what it means to remain inside something long after the point of exhaustion.

Robin Plenio is a music theatre maker, composer and media artist.

What happens to the time before something arrives, what it means to stretch a moment until it becomes a world, what it is to keep playing past the point of meaning? working with these questions, Robin practices a world building exercise between performers, media systems, and audiences.

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06/06/2026

At the moment Isobel is in her studio researching the body as a site of misperformance and misunderstanding. The body keeps getting it wrong. Or gets it right in ways that cannot be repeated.

A clown and a philosopher are having s*x with the lights on and the curtains open. You are sitting in a café wearing a beret. You are embarrassed that you might run into someone you know, but for some reason you do not take the beret off.

Being human is humiliating. Let’s start here.

Drawing from philosophy, clowning, and performance experiment, Isobel approaches embarrassment as an unstable threshold between humour and violence - an inescapable condition of embodiment: having a body that is visible, interpretable, and never entirely under your control.

During Summer Presentations, Isobel invites audiences to visit an unfolding research process where ordinary acts of having, using, and being a body become playful, troubled, and strange. The body appears not as something we possess, but as something that keeps performing us.

This Monday and Tuesday! See you there!

05/06/2026

Like every year at DAS Theatre, our first-year students open the doors of their studios to share their work-in-progress‌.

As member of cohort 2027, Artūrs Čukurs will share his work on June 8 and 9.

Artūrs is a theatre maker and singer from Latvia.

At the moment Artūrs is in his studio, researching the ability of language to dismantle reality and build it anew. Every time we speak, a world is created. At that very same moment, a different world ceases to exist. Different ways of speaking enable different worlds to persist. And with them – different logics, traps and possibilities.

During Summer Presentations Artūrs invites the audience to be with worlds that emerge while we speak – evolving, declining, arising from the rubble just to fall again – until it is impossible to tell creation and destruction apart.

Portrait by Pēteris Vīksna

We are looking forward to seeing you in the summer presentations, go ahead and book your tickets through the link in our bio!

05/06/2026

Isidora Goncić is a theatre director and performance artist.

Her current research focuses on personal history and familiar narratives of shame, intimacy, memory, vulnerability, and womanhood.

Using autobiographical storytelling and contemporary performance, Isidora shares a work where what begins as an awkward first date slowly turns into an encounter with medicine, fertility, and the expectations attached to a woman. Somewhere between comedy and a panic attack, she keeps asking for a sign that everything is “okay”.

Tickets available on our website!

04/06/2026

Elias Adam (b.1991, Greece) is a theatre director and writer.

Elias works with ruptures in reality, identity, and structures of meaning-making in our hyper-mediated world. He moves through the ongoing horrors and fragmentation of modernity.

Through a personal video archive, Elias reflects on a universe where continuity and coherence constantly fall apart. Rather than looking for orientation or explanation, his work stays with instability, inviting the audience to get lost together inside a reality that cannot be fully grasped. Meaning is continuously deferred, perception destabilized, and authorship itself begins to dissolve. Spectatorship here does not come from understanding, but from the impossibility of deciding what is happening.

Come experience Elias’ presentation at DAS Theatre coming Monday and Tuesday, June 8 and 9. Tickets online!

01/06/2026

The tickets are now online for our Summer Presentations, already happening next week!

Come melt for the charms of our first year students

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Summer Presentations are work-in-progress, experiments and studio showings.

Come, get carried along and be inspired and surprised!
As always we will provide snacks, drinks and good vibes.

Looking forward to see you here!

28/05/2026

WE INVITE YOU FOR WORKSHOPS
AT DAS THEATRE

JUNE 2nd 15.45-21.00

Come and join a workshop hosted and crafted by our DAS Theatre 2nd year students
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During a four-week trajectory our students have playfully transformed their research and practice into a workshop format.

You are warmly invited to experience these workshops and dive into an unexpected universe of writing, clowning, adulting, listening, grieving, and more! As we all know, making theatre does not only lead to evening filling plays. Artists don’t only push the boundaries of what theatre is and can be, they also embrace the possibilities of meeting audiences in alternative formats coming from their broader research.

During two time slots between 16.00-18.00 and 19.00-21.00 you will be able to follow two different workshops. Please follow the link to register. We will provide snacks and drinks in the break, as always.

You can sign up on the DAS website.
See you soon!

Adres

Overhoeksplein 2
Amsterdam
1031KS

Openingstijden

Maandag	09:00 - 18:00
Dinsdag	09:00 - 22:00
Woensdag	09:00 - 22:00
Donderdag	09:00 - 22:00
Vrijdag	09:00 - 22:00
Zaterdag	13:00 - 17:00

Telefoon

+31205277666

Website

http://www.dasgraduateschool.nl/

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