ANTR’AKT

AN IN BETWEEN Together with fellow students of Toneelacademie Maastricht, I created ANTR’AKT in the summer of 2021. A magazine about theatre, visual arts and music from the hands of students from different art and drama schools in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The magazine includes interviews with creatives, retrospectives on work processes, conversations about current performances, …

Olympe

To die and be largely forgotten is one thing, having to linger on as a faint idea, quite another. With the play Olympe, I set out to explore the value of language in the fight for women’s rights. And no performance or play on that still so pressing theme would be complete without the words …

The megalomaniac

The megalomaniac is a musical storytelling performance about a city with eighty-six lanes. The city in which Oda lives, a young architect who, in a world of numbers, thinks only in words. In an attempt to break free from The Great System, Oda decides to make history by building a tower. A tower that will …

Shipwreck

A lot has been said about heroes and death. Endless stories are dedicated to monsters and battles, shipwrecks and bullets. Though some of those stories did not reach the shore. Some people died at sea, far away from their loved ones, their children, their homes. No matter how heroically they had stood at the helm, …

The Great Noise

Much has been said, much has been listened to and much has been thought in this year’s pandemic. About who we are as humanity, what we create and leave behind. About who I am as a human being, as an artist, as a person. The Great Noise (and how it was found) is my conclusion, …

Kronkelklok II

Kronkelklok II is a small study on the tangibility of one’s identity. The strands of the becoming rather than the DNA that is already there. The work consists of five frames measuring 15.2 x 10.2 cm.

Nightingales

Once upon a time there was a wonderful plan to make a documentary with lots of people and lots of music. And then everything was locked down. This is plan two, formed in times of pandemic, in which I went looking for night thoughts, dreams and fears together with the isolated students of Maastricht. What …