Great news from The Hague: dancer/movement and choreographer Melisa Diktaş is the winner of the BNG Dance Award 2025! On Thursday, April 17, this was announced in theater house Korzo, where the jury was deeply impressed by her solo Dat wat ontembaar is. As the winner, Melisa may tour eight Dutch theaters with her performance, […]
A rushed performance about caring “In a hectic, laboriously told performance, dancer Tamayo Okano wants to tell the audience something about caring. Care (Past/Present/Future) claims to be about how different generations of women care for others and, if possible, for themselves. What we get to see revolves mostly around an undigested mother-daughter bond, in which […]
Anna Karenina Lambrechts dances between proximity and boundaries In her solo From Gravity to Grace, Anna Karenina Lambrechts shows that she effortlessly touches audiences with her unique dance idiom: a powerful blend of krump, contemporary dance and both traditional and contemporary Filipino dance forms. “That is the hallmark and peculiarity of this performance: how the […]
In March, MAP moved into residency -together with artists Gökhan Kizilbuga, Farida, Joana Rossi, Saloua Hassani, Louai Hashem & Julia Färber Data- for a month at wpZimmer! After four intense and inspiring weeks, we officially closed the residency last Friday with a show moment. The artists shared their insights, texts, excerpts and images from the […]
In March, MAP will move to wpZimmer for one month. Together with artists from the WIPCOOP-network – Gökhan Kizilbuga, Farida, Joana Rossi, Saloua Hassani, Louai Hashem & Julia Färber Data – we are going there as an organization in residence. To work, brainstorm, commemorate, puzzle … to take a complete break from our routine. Meet […]
In March, MAP will move to wpZimmer for one month. Together with artists from the WIPCOOP-network – Gökhan Kizilbuga, Farida, Joana Rossi, Saloua Hassani, Louai Hashem & Julia Färber Data – we are going there as an organization in residence. To work, brainstorm, commemorate, puzzle … to take a complete break from our routine. Meet […]
Ping Hsiang Wang examines identity and gaze “Ping, in Retina Maneuver, looks at himself in the mirror ánd thus also morphs our gaze. I would almost dare call that the shortest definition of exciting art… So I sincerely hope that more people in our theatre area will still get to see this solo.” – Wouter […]
After three exciting weeks, our 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓱, 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓟𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓼 residence comes to an end. Beautiful photo essay by Karolina Maruszak 🙂 During this period, Colette Goossens stepped into Britney’s shoes for the first time, Rubin Ajlouni wrote and rewrote his text, and Gökhan Kizilbuga refined his installation and video montages. On Friday, Feb. 28, the […]
Half the art of telling a story well is a good story. The other half is not so much empathy, but just distance. Especially when that story, as with David Labi in “Pieces of a Man,” is about your own father. Or is Labi himself the man in pieces from the title? True storytelling lies […]
‘Intellectual terror’ – Aïcha Mouhamou on Kidnapped by Rodrigo Batista and Mariana Senne. “I would like to see this much guts more often,” writes Aïcha Mouhamou in her review of Kidnapped, the performance by playwrights Rodrigo Batista and Mariana Senne. In her piece, titled Intellectual Terror, she praises Batista’s uncompromising and confrontational style: “The white […]
Excerpts from our second partial moment of 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓱, 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓟𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓼 – this time at Monty! Last Friday, Colette Goossens, Gökhan Kizilbuga and Rubin Ajlouni met to share insights and experiences from another week of research. From different locations – c o r s o, Rataplan and Monty – they continued to work on their […]
Glimpse of our first partial session 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓱, 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓟𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓼 – this time in c o r s o! Last week, residents Colette Goossens, Gökhan Kizilbuga & Rubin Ajlouni each explored their research at a different location – c o r s o, Rataplan & Monty. On Friday, they met to exchange insights, reflect on […]
