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DAS Choreography is a two-year low-residential master programme of DAS Graduate School at the Amster Often resonating long after the two weeks are over.

Dance artists who have established a professional practice and seek possibilities for further reflection and development, can increase their research skills at DAS Choreography (previous: the Amsterdam Master of Choreography - AMCh). This two-year non-residential programme of Higher Professional Education of the Amsterdam University of the Arts aims to contribute to the field of critical and contemporary dance research and creation in the Netherlands and abroad. The course provides the support structure and organization to facilitate choreographic and interdisciplinary practice-led research, with an emphasis on the processes of praxis, or metapractice. The individual artistic practice is the point of departure of the programme and will be the guiding thread of the course design. The programme will allow to develop an intensive and sustained dialogue and to work in and off a continuing artistic practice. It offers a place in the words of graduates: “to slow down the chaos”,” to allow for being overwhelmed and not know”, “to allow time for insisting on one thing”. A place to create conditions for generating artistic practices. This is realised through a commitment to a sustained dialogue for a period of two years, actually 2.5, right from the selection interviews. From the very beginning each participant is asked to actively take the lead in designing ways to present the research projects and questions to colleagues. The programme invests in maintaining a high quality exchange of questioning artistic practice and research, made possible through the small size, concentrated and intense quality of exchange. A seminar works as a ‘pressure cooker’, by creating shared mind in the room in which understandings about artistic processes can be brought to another level. This resonance will most often come to expression in the written reports and essays that are produced every semester. Through shared reading sessions a high level of critical analysis and broadening of frames of reference is stimulated. This is done both in the seminars as in monthly Skype conference calls. The programme can rely on a high level of entrance of choreographers who have already developed specific views on art and dance, and consequently on strong collegial exchange.

27/08/2026

On 3rd 4th September, we open the studio doors for our students Pina Gambettola, Sara Manubens, Camilla Strandhagen and Charlie Laban Trier to share with you what has been emerging through their choreographic research and residencies during their first year of study.

On both evenings, we welcome you at DAS with a warm soup nibbles. On the thursday, we begin the evening at DAS, for the first showing, with time for drinks and nibbles, followed by a venue change to close the evening with a showing at the ATD building. On friday, both showings take place at DAS.

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

06/08/2026

Take a look back with us at this year's Master Presentations, tongue bitten| tongue bite| bitten tongue! On 19, 20, 21 April our 2nd year students, Fernanda Libman, Julek Kreutzer, nisha ha and tis aly shared their work.

In this post we're sharing some images from tis aly's UM~A:

The work developed by Tis, particularly in the project UM~A, resists the analytical frameworks through which contemporary art is often interpreted, following the linearity imposed by what is considered to be “palatable”. Attempts to read it through transparency, coherence, and linear dramaturgy quickly prove to be insufficient. Instead, the work demands another conceptual lens — one offered by the idea of opacity proposed by Édouard Glissant. Opacity affirms the right of artistic and cultural expressions to remain partially unintelligible, resisting the demand to be fully explained or translated into dominant frameworks of meaning. A necessary and important tool for black and brown people, especially from the Global Majority /Global South.

📸by Thomas Lenden

30/07/2026

Take a look back with us at this year's Master Presentations, tongue bitten| tongue bite| bitten tongue! On 19, 20, 21 April our 2nd year students, Fernanda Libman, Julek Kreutzer, nisha ha and tis aly shared their work.

In this post we're sharing some images from nisha ha's you are sick therefore I am: a sick woman presentation:

"The anticipation of when I would perform, when excitement would finally come, weighed on me. If it’s not happening soon, then it should happen now! Since February, I have started a pop-up performance called “working at DAS”. I put on costumes with a simple light setting, and work on my computer, cook, eat, go to the toilet, talk with people, and dance as what I usually do at school. I’m highlighting the process and infrastructure of art making. When does a performance start? How do I choreograph a day of my life? How can I not stress myself out in the middle of everything?"

📸by Thomas Lenden

23/07/2026

Take a look back with us at this year's Master Presentations, tongue bitten| tongue bite| bitten tongue! On 19, 20, 21 April our 2nd year students, Fernanda Libman, Julek Kreutzer, nisha ha and tis aly shared their work.

In this post we're sharing some images from Julek Kreutzer's NOISE a solo with guests:

The central question of NOISE is how to continue moving. This question started as a personal one, and with time, revealed its political implications.

How to continue moving in the face of a tumultuous, deafening, roaring inner and outer world? NOISE, as presented here, is one version of an attempt at staging a choreographic practice that is continuing to unfold. NOISE lives through insisting on it changing. NOISE responds to and navigates surprise, uncertainty and affect. NOISE exists without resolution.

📸by Thomas Lenden

16/07/2026

Take a look back with us at this year's Master Presentations, tongue bitten| tongue bite| bitten tongue! On 19, 20, 21 April our 2nd year students, Fernanda Libman, Julek Kreutzer, nisha ha and tis aly shared their work.

In this post we're sharing some images from Fernanda's Libman's Consonants:

In Consonants the relational space is infiltrated by the perceptual logic of hypnagogia. Departing from this erosive semantic territory, an ever changing thread linking sound and space and language and body and music and touch and tension and another and rhythm and again and an other. In doing so, the work seeks to expand the semantic field through perception, unsettling binary interpretations and transgressing normative frames imposed by dominant perspectives.

📸by Thomas Lenden

23/06/2026

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

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.

DAS Choreography aims for diverse student and staff bodies. Diversity is understood in terms of both access and inclusivity. We are aware of the need to address and make ongoing investments in intersectional diversity. Within the small community of peers the diversity of orientations strongly affects the collective effort and culture in the programme.

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

Image: Fernanda Libman, Consonants. Performance, Ming Jou Chen, Fernanda Libman, 2026. Photo: Thomas Lenden.

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.

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