Tag: Performance

Melted for Love — Locating Lost Voices

Join us for an evening that moves between research, sonic fiction, and the act of listening as resistance. The programme begins with an artist talk with Emiddio Vasquez of Lower Levant Company, and Diana Policarpo, who will introduce the research behind Bugio Radio Station, focusing on echolocation and other techniques for tracing non-human sound. Together, they discuss how listening can reveal the impact of militarisation and colonial infrastructure on surrounding ecosystems.

The night continues with Every Day Things Disappear by Urok Shirhan, a live performance unfolding as a sonic fiction from the occupied land of ‘ABC’, where words, colours, feelings – and eventually futures – are systematically erased. Told through a fragmented first-person narrator, the work slips between satire and sorrow, tracing the quiet violence of censorship. Blending spoken word with archival murmurs and encrypted song fragments, it conjures a world where remembering becomes a subversive act. Every Day Things Disappear is both lament and code, auto-myth and resistance ritual. It asks how we listen when speech dissolves and what songs take shape in silence. 

This programme is part of the Biennial exhibition Melted for Love at W139, where Lower Levant Company’s and Diana Policarpo’s works are on display. 

Programme
Wednesday 25 February
18:00-20:00

Para-siting: phANTASMAL HAIRSALON

phANTASMAL HAIRSALON is a multidisciplinary art exhibition and performance choreographed by Raoni Muzho Saleh in co-creation with Karin Iturralde Nurnberg. W139 will transform into a campy, draggy hair salon where members of the public—the Clients—undergo a fabulous (or fabulously wrong) performative hair transformation by wearing a sculptural hairstyle while the rest of the public watches the performance.

Book an appointment, get crowned with a sculptural hairdo by the Hairstylist—a shady yet passionate character—and then strut it outside. Wearing our avant-garde, fabulous hair-do (or hair-don’t), you turn the streets into a campy moving exhibition and a cheeky drag protest against a sterilized world. phANTASMAL HAIRSALON aims to bring back, albeit momentarily, the old days when uncanny, colorful figures would prance the streets proudly. Be aware that there is no cutting involved—but a revival of look and spirit is guaranteed.

A Hairstylist tries to realize his long live dream of becoming a Super Star who steals ALL the lights on EVERY stage. Together with Clara Saito as The Mentor, every hairdo/hairdon’t, becomes an opportunity to shine on the stage. Sign up for a hairdo or hairdon’t to help make the Hairstylist dream come true! We need you!

Sign up here for an appointment with the hairdresser!

Raoni/Muzho Saleh is a Hazara/Dutch artist using performance, installation and the sound of mourning and moaning to twist and reshape narratives of (cultural) becoming. His work’s focus is to play with the personal, social and political edges. Imbuing his love for art, with body, spirit and politics through movement, voice and textile, he creates temporary immersions into Otherworldly feeling, relations and thought.

Karin Iturralde Nurnberg is an artist working with storytelling in multidisciplinary and sculptural installations. She is born and raised in Ecuador and lives and works in Amsterdam. In her practice she embraces improvisation and the power of spontaneous performative and sculptural interventions, to re-arrange the world around her and shift weighted positions.

Photos by Diego Diez

phANTASMAL HAIRSALON

phANTASMAL HAIRSALON is a multidisciplinary art exhibition and performance choreographed by Raoni Muzho Saleh in co-creation with Karin Iturralde Nurnberg. W139 will transform into a campy, draggy hair salon where members of the public—the Clients—undergo a fabulous (or fabulously wrong) performative hair transformation by wearing a sculptural hairstyle while the rest of the public watches the performance.

Book an appointment, get crowned with a sculptural hairdo by the Hairstylist—a shady yet passionate character—and then strut it outside. Wearing our avant-garde, fabulous hair-do (or hair-don’t), you turn the streets into a campy moving exhibition and a cheeky drag protest against a sterilized world. phANTASMAL HAIRSALON aims to bring back, albeit momentarily, the old days when uncanny, colorful figures would prance the streets proudly. Be aware that there is no cutting involved—but a revival of look and spirit is guaranteed.

A Hairstylist tries to realize his long live dream of becoming a Super Star who steals ALL the lights on EVERY stage. Together with Clara Saito as The Mentor, every hairdo/hairdon’t, becomes an opportunity to shine on the stage. Sign up for a hairdo or hairdon’t to help make the Hairstylist dream come true! We need you!

Sign up here for an appointment with the hairdresser!

Raoni/Muzho Saleh is a Hazara/Dutch artist using performance, installation and the sound of mourning and moaning to twist and reshape narratives of (cultural) becoming. His work’s focus is to play with the personal, social and political edges. Imbuing his love for art, with body, spirit and politics through movement, voice and textile, he creates temporary immersions into Otherworldly feeling, relations and thought.

Karin Iturralde Nurnberg is an artist working with storytelling in multidisciplinary and sculptural installations. She is born and raised in Ecuador and lives and works in Amsterdam. In her practice she embraces improvisation and the power of spontaneous performative and sculptural interventions, to re-arrange the world around her and shift weighted positions.

Photos by Diego Diez

SNDO: D.R.E.D.G.E.

SNDO presents: D.R.E.D.G.E. by Elisa Zuppini and Toni Steffens, in collaboration with musician Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure and SNDO 2 & 3. A program with guest appearances by Pauline de Groot and Thomas Lehmen.

D.R.E.D.G.E. 2025 is a work by Elisa Zuppini and Toni Steffens, created at the invitation of SNDO – School for New Dance Development. Over the course of a two-week workshop, they engaged with second- and third-year students, leading toward public presentations in December.

As part of the 50-year jubilee marking the founding of SNDO, Elisa and Toni entered into dialogue with Pauline de Groot, exploring her extensive choreographic oeuvre and its new life within the online archive (paulinedegroot.nl). During the Performing the Archive: Pauline de Groot Festival in November 2024 at Plein Theater—hosted and curated by Fransien van der Putt—they shared their initial explorations of Pauline’s choreographies. Extending this intergenerational dialogue between choreographers who share lineages and references yet diverge into their own distinct practices, SNDO invited Elisa and Toni to take the next step.

During the 50-year celebration in June 2025, Pauline performed a duet with fellow SNDO alumnus Thomas Lehmen. This meeting evolved into ongoing weekly movement practice sessions at the Academy of Theatre and Dance.

Lines and lineages of vigor and persistence—bodies and dances—will converge in two days of public presentations. The program features a duet by Pauline de Groot and Thomas Lehmen, followed by D.R.E.D.G.E., the choreography by Elisa Zuppini and Toni Steffens, performed together with 16 SNDO students. Costume and styling by Noam Gil Shuster.

Tickets
You can reserve tickets online here

D.R.E.D.G.E. explores possibilities for giving a body to both the friction and coalescence of different time zones interfering with one another. Revolving around the joy of dance, this process is an experiment in testing movement lineages and histories of practices.

SNDO – School for New Dance Development offers a full time four-year professional education course leading to a Bachelor’s degree in Art – Choreography. The school was founded in 1975 as an attempt to find new directions for dance next to the existing forms and styles that dominated the field. After fifty years, the SNDO remains inquisitive, open minded, and in the foreground of progressive developments in the fields of dance and performance. In the curriculum, the school establishes the conditions from which the creativity of the student can emerge. Reflection on the specific qualities of dance and performance as art forms is developed, and awareness of the body and the artistic, social and political implications of working with it take precedence. The SNDO is part of Academy of Theatre and Dance at the Amsterdam University of the Arts.

Para-siting: phANTASMAL HAIRSALON

phANTASMAL HAIRSALON is a multidisciplinary art exhibition and performance choreographed by Raoni Muzho Saleh in co-creation with Karin Iturralde Nurnberg. W139 will transform into a campy, draggy hair salon where members of the public—the Clients—undergo a fabulous (or fabulously wrong) performative hair transformation by wearing a sculptural hairstyle while the rest of the public watches the performance.

Book an appointment, get crowned with a sculptural hairdo by the Hairstylist—a shady yet passionate character—and then strut it outside. Wearing our avant-garde, fabulous hair-do (or hair-don’t), you turn the streets into a campy moving exhibition and a cheeky drag protest against a sterilized world. phANTASMAL HAIRSALON aims to bring back, albeit momentarily, the old days when uncanny, colorful figures would prance the streets proudly. Be aware that there is no cutting involved—but a revival of look and spirit is guaranteed.

phANTASMAL HAIRSALON openingsdagen
— Friday 21 November 18:00-21:00 opening of phANTASMAL HAIRSALON
— Sunday 23 November 14:00-17:00 HAIRSALON open, with Raoni and Taka Taka
— Wednesday 17 December 14:00-17:00 HAIRSALON open, with Raoni and Clara Saito
— Friday 19 December 14:00-17:00 HAIRSALON open, with Raoni and Clara Saito

Sign up here for your appointment with the hairdresser!

Raoni/Muzho Saleh is a Hazara/Dutch artist using performance, installation and the sound of mourning and moaning to twist and reshape narratives of (cultural) becoming. His work’s focus is to play with the personal, social and political edges. Imbuing his love for art, with body, spirit and politics through movement, voice and textile, he creates temporary immersions into Otherworldly feeling, relations and thought.

Karin Iturralde Nurnberg is an artist working with storytelling in multidisciplinary and sculptural installations. She is born and raised in Ecuador and lives and works in Amsterdam. In her practice she embraces improvisation and the power of spontaneous performative and sculptural interventions, to re-arrange the world around her and shift weighted positions.

Ash Above, Show Below — Finissage

Join us for the finissage of Temper Tantrum Bonehouse, a ritual of goodbye with a performative guided tour through the exhibition by Mette Sterre. This is the very last opportunity to still physically visit the Bonehouse, one final time before it slips into memory and lingers only in weary minds. This finissage is both a farewell and a transformation: a memorial where the end becomes a new beginning, where the Bonehouse, like the Ouroboros, sheds its skin to become something else.

Expect murmurs of melancholy, reflections spoken aloud, and resuscitation after the Dutch elections. But mostly: expect a final activation of the Bonehouse—a last gesture by Mette Sterre, bringing the Bonehouse to life once more before it self-dissolves and goes up in smoke forever.

Doors — 17:00
Performative guided tour — 17:30
Drinks — 18:30

Tickets available at the door.
Admission fee: €5

Mette Sterre is a visual artist who investigates the limits and transformative potential of the body. Her work resists categorization, fusing performance, sculpture, body masks, and digital technology into immersive, otherworldly environments that explore the threshold between the organic and the artificial. By entering her work we are cast into the materialisation of her mind processes: a sensorial and embodied experience.

Photo by Pieter Kers

DNK Amsterdam Experimental Music Festival Weekend — Day 2

DNK Amsterdam invites you to a participatory performance on Beursplein. The Social Music Club plays To Cast A Net… by Koen Nutters: a group piece for sine tones in the public space.

To Cast A Net… is a piece that asks performers to gather and create an electronic net, cast over the auditory reality of everyday life, by simply playing one electronic tone of a particular height on each on their phones, and thereby augmenting and highlighting the public space we are occupying. 

The tones will create subtle beatings with each other and with sounds in the environment while performers slowly switch places, and form a moment and place for intensified listening to the world while abiding in the open city for a performative pause, a moment to reflect on the use and function of public space, society as a whole, and our place in it, as people, artists, and sounding entities.

Please sign up in advance if you want to participate. Please send an email to koennutters@gmail.com
Bring an umbrella in case of rain

Start performance — 15:00
Location — Beursplein

The Social Music Club is a loose collective of musicians and non-musicians who regularly come together to listen, make sound, talk about interaction, and try different types of text scores and exercises from the book Search & Reflect: A Music Workshop Handbook, compiled by students of the late percussionist, improviser, and teacher John Stevens.

DNK Agenda

DNK Amsterdam Experimental Music Festival Weekend — Day 1

In the context of the DNK is DONE… residency DNK Amsterdam presents a concert night with two sets of cutting edge and quite classical experimental music by a quartet of young musicians based in The Hague and an ensemble of ragtag experimentalists, professionals and hobbyists alike, from the Amsterdam region aka The Social Music Club.

Programme
Saturday 22 November
Montoriol, Eckhardt, McGuire, & De Gendt — Simultaneous / Synchronous (Song)
The Social Music Club — Stones (Christian Wolff) and The Great Learning – Paragraph 7 (Cornelius Cardew)
Afterwards music by the DNK DJ team

Roc Montoriol, Jacob Eckhardt, Lawrence McGuire, Cis De Gendt are a The Hague-based quartet, sharing an interest in perception and attention in relation to presentation formats, playback media, volumes and space-time. Their work currently utilizes amplification, sound recordings, electro-acoustic devices, objects, and voice. 

For this performance at W139, they reimagine DNK ensemble’s 2017 performance: Simultaneous / Synchronous (Song) with (synthetic) voice and non-pitched sound materials layered across a range of playback devices. They take inspiration from its forming of relations, the structural repetition of re-starting and re-shifting, and the masking that occurs.

Watch a version of the original performance here.

The Social Music Club is a loose collective of musicians and non-musicians who regularly come together to listen, make sound, and talk about interaction. They try different types of text scores and exercises from the book Search & Reflect: A Music Workshop Handbook, compiled by students of the late percussionist, improviser, and teacher John Stevens.

They will perform a simultaneous performance of Christian Wolff’s Stones and Cornelius Cardew’s The Great Learning – Paragraph 7.

DNK Agenda


DNK Amsterdam Monday Night Concert #2

In the context of the Para-siting project DNK is DONE… DNK Amsterdam presents a concert night with two solo sets of cutting edge electronic music by two of the Netherland’s finest performer-composers.

Programme
Anne La Berge — Flute and electronics
Gert-Jan Prins — Electronics and percussion

Doors — 19:30
First set — 20:00

Entrance by donation

Anne La Berge’s passion for the extremes in both composed and improvised music has led her to the fringes of storytelling and sound art as her sources of musical inspiration. She performs as a multimedia soloist and in projects both live and online and is one of the composer/performers in the Amsterdam based ensemble MAZE.

In 1999, together with Steve Heather and Cor Fuhler, she founded Kraakgeluiden, an improvisation series based in Amsterdam, exploring combinations of acoustic and electronic instruments using real-time interactive performance systems. Many of the resulting musical collaborations have taken on a life beyond the Kraakgeluiden series, which ceased in 2006.

La Berge will perform Third Nature, a performance with storytelling, processed flute, synthesized and sampled audio, sirens, improvisations and other stuff. It includes parts of her compositions from 2005 to ones that are currently works-in-progress.

Gert-Jan Prins (b. 1961 in IJmuiden) focuses on the sonic and musical qualities of electronic noise and percussion, and investigates their relationship with the visual. While he started his career as a drummer, his works now include performances, sound installations, compositions, electronic circuits, and numerous collaborations with other musicians, visual artists, composers, and dancers.

DNK Agenda

DNK is DONE… hosts The Social Music Club

The Social Music Club is an initiative by Aimée Theriot and Koen Nutters. In just a few words: it is a musical improvisation session without dogmas, where the emphasis lies on meeting, and getting to know each other, while also discussing, bringing into practice, and stretching the understanding of what exactly music is, and can be. For musicians, non-musicians, amateurs, and professionals alike. 

The Social Music Club concentrates on methods for group improvisation by John Stevens and text scores from various contemporary and historical sources to play music together in a thoughtful and attentive environment.

Bring instruments, objects, words, voices, bodies. With a drink afterwards in a bar nearby.

Doors — 20:00
Start programme — 20:10

Free entrance and full participation

Organized and facilitated by Aimée Theriot and Koen Nutters.

DNK Agenda