Alumni

  • A choreographer and performer in the contemporary independent dance scene. With his research, Alxandre is interested in examining dance and its tremendous diversity and approach to public, with the aim to create a pluricultural landscape of local dance practices.

  • A contemporary performer, choreographer, and ballet researcher based in Berlin. For his artistic research, Andrew seeks to create a compendium of ballet technique, which takes shape in a digitally interactive manual of critical pedagogy.

  • An artist and writer, who studied Fine Arts and Writing at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Artistic Research at the University of Amsterdam, with a practice that is theoretical, textual, and visual. Main interests include radical pedagogies from a process philosophical approach and the act of fabulative writing in the (visual) arts. The practice always has an important collaborative and experimental orientation to it.

  • An artist and filmmaker who creates video installations, feature-length and short (hybrid) documentary and experimental films. Ginan studied fine arts in Halle (Saale), Berlin and Mexico City, she participated in the Professional Media Master Class and the Master Class Lab of Werkleitz e.V. in 2012 and 2016.  Also she is part of the film art collective FILZ.

  • A queer performance artist who works within different contexts of the performing and visual arts, and as author and director of radio plays. Hendrik‘s research-project is dedicated to chronic, invisible diseases and their relationship to humorous representations in contemporary performing arts and society.

  • A filmmaker with a background in literature, philosophy and sociology, working in the field of cinematic sensory ethnography. He experiments with new film formats and languages through practice and teaching, directing creative non-fiction films and teaching audiovisual research methods at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ).

  • A filmmaker, editor and a contemporary artist from Ghana. He is concerned with the exploration of transdisciplinary approach to expand the spectrum of dynamic storytelling as an alternative means of tackling existing challenges socially, culturally and politically through art. He has been invited to prestigious Film programmes and often works with stories in relation to Africa and the world to entertain, educate and promote social change.

  • A poet who grew up among Black women who were activists, artists, writers and scholars. Having had access to their thoughts and libraries at a very young age, Meloe built their mixed-race trans non-binary self with a strong sense of belonging and consciousness. They graduated in Law, Literature and History and worked as a legalist and activist; and it is through a combination of circumstances that Meloe has become an artist. Their art practice explores embodied narratives through poems, moving images and performance.

  • A scenographer and cultural scientist working in various constellations in the context of performance, theatre and installation. Rahel’s research project is a search for the autonomy, self-efficacy, vulnerability and resilience of environments, landscapes and territories.

  • A British actor known for his critically acclaimed performances at the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, in The West End and on Broadway. He is also a prolific screen actor and has appeared in many successful television shows. As his alter ego Rustic Mascara, he attracted over 50 thousand views to his radical attempts to perform Shakespeare inside GTA online and had his films shown at contemporary art and film festivals worldwide. Currently, he is making a BFI funded documentary about this work and has been longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2022.

  • A Teheran and Amsterdam based choreographer, working with dance as a socialising practice and gaze as a choreographic tool. In her current research, Setareh works with Parallax as an ability to see two or more images at once, to provoke a feeling of absence or confusion in what is actually present.

  • A scenographer who has been creating media scenographies and interactive installations for dance, performance and musical theatre productions internationally for over ten years. Her artistic research focuses on the topic of chronic pain, based on an artistic residency in a pain clinic as well as conversations with chronic pain patients.