DAS Choreography

10/04/2026

Master Presentations 2026 – 'tongue bitten | tongue bite | bitten tongue'
On 19, 20 and 21 April our second year students Fernanda Libman, Julek Kreutzer, nisha ha and tis aly will share their work.

The title, proposed by the four artists, activates movement, imagery, flesh and sensation. Tongues bitten to hide emotion, tongue-biting as something sensual or erotic, a bitten tongue that causes pain.

More than anything, the title points to the fragility of staying in resonance with one another when violence, exhaustion and overwhelm shape the conditions under which we gather, move and feel.

We look forward to sharing the frequencies of these works which cannot be contained within the days of the presentations alone, but have unfolded across the two years that the artists’ studies together have encompassed.

Program note: The April 20th presentation of nisha ha will be a covid-safe showing. Please self-test before arriving to DAS. Tests and masks will be available on site as well.

Find out more and get your tickets at the link in our bio 🔗

04/03/2026

Tatenda Chabarwa is a Zimbabwean-born performing artist whose work as a dancer, choreographer, and musician transcends geographical boundaries. Rooted in the rich artistic traditions of his homeland, Tatenda has cultivated a dynamic career, collaborating with leading international companies while simultaneously nurturing his own unique artistic vision.

Tatenda Chabarwa explores new choreography based on Zimbabwean traditional rhythms, chants, and melodies. He is driven by a fascination with the power of frequency on the body, nature, and all living beings. The practice explores African identity, culture and spirituality through the lens of dance and live music. Tatenda’s artistic practice delves into the origins and foundations of human behaviour within and beyond performance spaces. He utilises the sonic realm – Zimbabwean traditional rhythms, chants, melodies, and ancient instruments – as a core element, developing gestural languages that emerge from this sonic foundation.

Tatenda: I am writing to express my sincere gratitude for considering my request for financial support. I have been accepted into the master’s programme at the Amsterdam University of Arts [DAS Choreography]. However, I am facing financial constraints that are hindering my ability to pursue this opportunity. I am reaching out to request financial assistance to cover my tuition, which amounts to 7,375 euros, and my living costs, which amount to 12,625 euros.

More information and link for donate in the bio

17/10/2025

Looking bqck qt the studio showings of the second year students in September ✨

NOISE
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Noise is a solo with guests choreographed and performed by Julek Kreutzer, together with Lina Gómez, Laura Ramírez Ashbaugh, Fred Raposo and Jakob Bogatzki. With Noise, the choreographer negotiates the sensations and remnants of disorientation and rage in the body through the body.
Noise is a set-up for working through interruptedness, volume, time and speed. Noise is a situation in which the dancing body attempts to process and slide through all information simultaneously.
With Noise, we look for presence.

choreographed & performed by Julek Kreutzer
together with Lina Gómez, Laura Ramírez Ashbaugh, Fred Raposo & Jakob Bogatzki
sound by Michelangelo Contini
mentoring by Jule Flierl
research with Victor Conto, Thea Rasche & José Manuel Ruiz Balado

15/10/2025

Looking back at the studio showings of the second year students in September ✨

CONSONANTS
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The project Consonants is a choreographic exploration inspired by the hypnagogic state, a perceptual phenomenon that occurs in the transitional phase between wakefulness and sleep, when the frequencies of our brain shift from beta (12.5–30 Hz) to alpha (8–12 Hz). While thoughts transition from the objective into the subjective rhythm of the mind, our sensorial body can at times translate this shift in neurological activity into hallucinatory images, sounds, or bodily sensations. Unlike dreams, in which the subject is fully immersed, hypnagogic visions appear as if observed from a distance, positioning the individual as a spectator of their own perception.

Rather than approaching hypnagogia as a theme, the project seeks to reflect its perceptual qualities in the performative space, crafting a dynamic interplay between sonic, aesthetic, and choreographic elements designed to destabilize and interfere with the spectator’s interpretation. By echoing the ever-changing quality of hypnagogia, the research aims to expand on the complexity of the relational space between two people, piercing through the rigidity of binary interpretations of the world proposed by dominant narratives.

Performer and artistic collaborator
Lights .lina.prokop
Mentor

Photos by Thomas Lenden and Paulina Prokop

11/10/2025

Looking back at the studio showings of the second year students in September ✨

A SICK WOMAN PRESENTATION
By .needs.a.break

The title of this presentation “sick woman” is a direct reference to Johanna Hedva’s Sick Woman Theory. At the beginning of her article, she challenges the classic, liberal way of doing politics, which is, getting your body into the street and protesting. Hedva asks, How about those people who want to but cannot get out on the street? For example, how about people who are imprisoned by a job, or by the threat of losing it if they go out? how about people who are threatened by political and other sorts of violence? how about people who have disability and illness therefore physically cannot get out? How about people who are occupied by their responsibilities of taking care of someone with disability or illness?
Just like Hedva’s article, this research project also seeks a different way of doing politics, of protesting against capitalism and its exploitation of each body and each living reality. The most anti-capitalist protest, in Hedva’s words, is to care.

07/10/2025

We are open for applications! Apply now for our Masters Programmes DAS Choreography and DAS Theatre. Want to find out more? Sign up for one of our information sessions.

DAS Choreography will host an online information session on October 14. Sign up by sending an email to [email protected].

DAS Theatre will host two online information meetings: on Wednesday October 15, 2–4pm and on Wednesday October 29, 8–10pm (Amsterdam time). Please register by sending an email to [email protected].

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 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.

Go to our website to find out more at the link in our bio 🔗

📸 Image: Jordan Demetrius Lloyd - MOONCRY, 2025 | Photo: Thomas Lenden

14/09/2025

On 17 September, 19:00 we welcome Dani d’Emilia (they/them) for a guest lecture on “Co-sensing with Radical Tenderness: Towards Undoing the Spell of Separability”.

Dani d’Emilia is an artist and educator working at the intersections of performance, radical pedagogy, social justice, and eco-relational care. Since 2014, they have developed a substantial body of work around Radical Tenderness, exploring its potential to reconfigure connections between reason, affect, and relationality through political practices of healing that foster metabolic intimacy and visceral response_ability. A member of Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (CA/BR) since 2017 and formerly of La Pocha Nostra (US/MX, 2011–16), Dani teaches and works on various projects internationally, exploring how the arts can nourish cognitive, affective, and relational vitality amid deepening social and ecological crises.

Link in the bio for more information and reservation

14/09/2025

27/08/2025

|| Open studios || 4 & 5 of September ||

After a year of digging into their research the students of DAS Choreography starts their second study year by opening the doors of their studio ✨
We would like to invite you to come on the 4 & 5 of September to the showings of , .needs.a.break y , to their questions and unfinished worlds.
This is the first glimpse of processes that will continue to unfold until their final presentation next April.

Ticket reservation and more about the program at the link in the bio

27/06/2025

Just a few weeks ago we celebrated our 2nd year students, who will soon become alumni of the DAS Choreography program!

Our annual boat trip through the canals of Amsterdam kicked off the recognition of Jordan, Laura, Clarinde, and Juan, who brought their unique voices to our studios with generosity and sensitivity. Exchanging practices with now eight additional peers over the last two years. We celebrate their work, and their many contributions to the program!!

Look at this darling crew! Be sure to tune into recaps of their masters presentations in the coming weeks ✨

Our 2025 Graduates 🥳:

🎉 Laura Ramirez Ashbaugh
🎉 Clarinde Wesselink
🎉 juan felipe amaya gonzalez .co
🎉 Jordan Demetrius Lloyd .d.lloyd

12/04/2025

Our four talented and hardworking 2nd year students begin sharing their masters presentations TOMORROW ✨

Join Clarinde, juan felipe, Laura, and Jordan for CAUGHT, a three-day festival of performance, installation, publication, and celebration!

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sentient, conjoined and mutually intersecting, caught and yet wandering the labyrinth

Being at the edge, pushing against a thing you don’t know the shape of.
The process happens in waves.
It is a labyrinth of multiple attentions.

For more information about each work, and to reserve tickets, please find the link in our bio!