De Dansers (2026-Now)

Howling Road (2027)

On an almost empty stage, four dancers and two musicians return to the basics. To what remains when everything is stripped away: the body, the voice, and each other.

In Howling Road, they search together for a place to land. Duos whirl like a whirlwind within a single square metre, their feet striking out a rhythm that grows into a polyphonic song. Howling Road is a passionate act of resistance and an exercise in connection. A reminder of the richness and resilience that lies within the body itself. Through powerful partnering and choral singing, Howling Road paints a portrait of a group learning to trust themselves and one another.

For Howling Road, De Dansers collaborate with Amsterdam-based songwriter and singer Pitou Nicolaes, whose music is characterised by her enchanting, multi-coloured voice and idiosyncratic compositions.

The result is a hopeful echo for a world in which we may have less, but will need each other all the more.

Choreografy: Josephine van Rheenen  and performers
Music(live): Pitou & Guy Corneille
Performers: Yeli Beurskens, Liam McCall, Irene Rojo, Tijmen Teunissen, Guy Corneille and Pitou Nicolaes
Lichtontwerp: Varja Klosse
Techniek: Chieljan van der Hoek
Dramaturgie: Marc Maris

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Constantin Trommlitz (2025-Now)

Antibodies (2025)

“Antibodies“ transmits the raw honesty and reality of pain. Two dancers share their unfiltered relationship with pain - sometimes isolated in suffering, sometimes finding care and acceptance in each other. Inspired by chronic pain in the dancer's lower back and foot, Constantin Trommlitz transforms the limitation of pain into a motor for self-expression and virtuosity.

The duet merges elements of Breaking and Contemporary dance into an innovative movement language that emphasizes the sensitive relationship between the dancers and their own stories of pain.

Artistic Direction - Constantin Trommlitz
Choreography & Dance in collaboration with - Lara Szymanski Canaro, Constantin Trommlitz
Composition - Tom van Wee 
Light design - Sanne Rosbag
Costume - Evita Rigert 
Dramaturgy - Marc Maris 
Coaching - Miller de Nobili & Niklaus Bein
Marketing - Mitchell van Rooij
Production - Mirjam Zwanenburg Korzo
Pictures - Sjoerd Derine & Günter Krämmer

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Roberta Maimone (2025-Now)

It’s About Time (2026)

A strange humanoid is born into an empty space. In her arms she holds the severed head of a bird, a vulture.  

At first, it cannot survive without her. The humanoid feeds it breath, movement, and attention to keep it alive. But as her care grows, the creature’s eyes begin to look back. Premonitions from the past begin to transform the new world around them, and soon they cannot outrun their fate. 

It’s About Time combines physical theater, puppetry, projection and live sound to offer a glimpse into a near future, where the fundamental binaries of life on Earth have dissolved. Human vs. machine, human vs. animal, and Self vs. Other – everything must be re-created in this world.

This piece is both tender and grotesque, and explores questions of identity, vulnerability, and transformation. 

Team:
Roberta Maimone – artistic direction, concept, choreography, performance

Clara Cozzolino – sound, composition, co-creation, performance

Fe Faber – mask and scenography

Sabine Pendry – writer and final direction

Mirko Lazović – light and projection design

Marc Maris – dramaturgy

Ulrike Quade – puppetry advisor

Ariadna Rubio Lleó – movement advisor

Christina Mastori – Videographer

Supported by:Plein Theater, ICK Amsterdam e Ulrike Quade Company.

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Faizah Grootens (2022-Now)

UNWRITTEN (2027)

In Unwritten, Grootens’ next production at Korzo Theater, The Hague, dancers Justin Brown and Matheus Moreira move through a landscape of often unwritten rules. What plays out invisibly in that one, seemingly simple moment when two bodies meet? What expectations, codes, and tensions simmer beneath the surface?

For this work Grootens will work with a team with whom she has a longstanding relationship, such as the dancers Justin Brown and Matheus Moreira and the composer  Michael Lampe. Dramaturg Marc Maris will be working closely with Grootens and the costume design by Eddy van der Laan, Atelier Clement.

For Unwritten, a residency was carried out in collaboration with SHIFFT, within the framework of iCoDaCo (co-founded by the European Union). This also resulted in an open studio presentation, for which Jesse Bom made this video

AQUÍ NADA MÁS (2025)

Four people in a waiting state. An easy task it seems. But while the time passes, bodies get restless, priorities shift, minds go running and relationships get tense. The only task is to be here. How hard can it be?

Choreography: Faizah Grootens in collaboration with the dancers
Dance: Pedro Henry, Mattia Trematerra, Adi Amit and Noor Argov Dayan
Composer: Michael Lampe
Dramaturgy: Marc Maris
Light design: Remko van Wely
Special Thanks to: Thomas Fauc, Conny Janssen, Erik Spruijt, Jimmy Pierre de Graaf, Korzo and Jasper van Luijk.
Research: Matheus Moreira, Rubia Veth and SHIFFT

Tender Resistance (2024)

Two dancers engage in an intense physical conversation: their bodies seek each other out, graze against one another and sometimes come to outright collision. Through all these movements, a fierce yet fragile duet emerges, one in which you can feel how how complicated it is to remain vulnerable in a world full of conflict and harshness. Faizah drew inspiration for this piece from the sensitivity and temperament of Papiamentu and from the words of American actress Viola Davis.

The duet is performed by Amber Veltman and Evelien Jansen. Evelien was nominated for her role in this duet for the VSCD Dance Prize ‘Zwaan – Most Impressive Dance Performance 2025’.

With fluid movement and raw honesty, the dancers in Tender Resistance show how difficult and how necessary it is to remain open to one another. The performance features text in Papiamentu. A Dutch and English translation is available as a handout.

Production: Korzo
Choreography: Faizah Grootens in collaboration with Evelien Jansen and Amber Veltman
Dance: Evelien Jansen and Amber Veltman
Composer: Michael Lampe
Dramaturgy: Marc Maris
Light design: Lisette van der Linden
Outside eye: Leo Spreksel
Text: Nathania Engelhardt
Spoken word: Elia Isenia
Production: Mirjam Dales
Marketing: Jevina Zhou, Mitchell-lee van Rooij, Shewska Verberne Pantoja
Special thanks to: Aryeh Weiner, Jeroen Heuvel, Scott Rollins

While you’re here - Tanten bo t’aki (2022)

Tanten bo t’aki is Papiamentu for “while you’re here”. With this playful and intimate duet choreographer Faizah Grootens creates a bodily research of the constant moving spine and the relation between synchronicity and individuality. Two people share a personal space, their connection is undeniable. But what exists when they’re together and who are they individually? In a constant motion the two dancers wave through the performance. But in the end they’re not by themselves, you are there as well.

Choreography: Faizah Grootens in collaboration with Evelien Jansen and Justin Brown
Dance: Evelien Jansen and Justin Brown
Composer: Michael Lampe
Dramaturgy: Marc Maris
Light design: Sanne Rosbag
Outside eye: Nicole Geertruida
Production: Mirjam Dales
Marketing: Mitchell-lee van Rooij
Photos: Sjoerd Derine

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still still / Marta & Kim (2021-2024)

Meander (2024)

In Meander five circus and dance artists weave a visual landscape. They slide and climb over and under each other, soar into the heights or intertwine into one body. Like a new river finding its course, or like a flock of birds migrating as one body, this is how Meander was created. In this continuum of movement and rhythm, the performers highlight their mutual trust despite the frictions and fractures between each other.

Meander is an ode to the process, to our constantly changing view of how we experience each other and our surroundings. By breaking free from traditional lines of hierarchy and positions of power, the five performers create a space where every moment can bring a new discovery, a new question, or a new insight.

After numerous crossovers, partner acrobats Knot on Hands, Felix Zech and Marta & Kim join forces in the performance Meander. Together they won the BNG Bank dance and circus award three times, were selected for Aerowaves, CircusNext, were nominated for the Prijs van de Nederlandse Dansdagen and performed their own work more than 350 times at home and abroad. Under the wings of production houses TENT and Dansateliers, they realize their dream of making a production together with Meander.

Concept: Knot on Hands, Marta & Kim, Felix Zech.
Performance: Britt Timmermans, Mario Kunzi, Tijs Bastiaens, Kim-Jomi Alstadsæter, Felix Zech.
Co-creator: Marta Alstadsæter
Dramaturgy: Marc Maris
Music Composition: Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek)
Mastering: Marlon Wolterink
Scenic & light design: Loes Schakenbos
Animation: Kaj Kian Rafael Fischer
Communication: Dansateliers, TENT
Production: Peggy Loch
Producer: Dansateliers Rotterdam, TENT
Co-producer: Cirklabo, Korzo
Supported by: Fonds 21, Gemeente Rotterdam, BNG Fonds, Dioraphte, Volkskracht

Our Arms Grew Together (2021)

Our Arms Grew Together is a live self-portrait of the love relationship between the couple Marta & Kim. In a world that celebrates independence, they choose deliberately for interdependency. 

Marta & Kim are in search of physical metaphors for their relationship. This unfolds in an intimate, honest, almost documentary universe of what normally stays behind closed doors: the sensuality and vulnerability of becoming one body with two people. At the same time, it shows the discomfort of it: literally not being able to walk away from each other and letting go of control and personal agenda. 

If ‘trusting you with my life’ is not only a metaphor, but a physical reality, then everything that is at stake becomes tangible. Do we dare to lose ourselves in a joint identity and depend on each other? 

Concept, Choreography & Performance: Marta Alstadsæter & Kim-Jomi Fischer
Music: Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek)
Mastering: Marlon Wolterink
Light design, video & technique: Loes Schakenbos
Dramaturgy: Marc Maris
Assistant choreography: Heleen van Gigch
Publicity image: Paul Sixta
Trailer: Paul Sixta
Co-produced by: Dansateliers, Festival Circolo
Financially supported by: Gemeente Rotterdam, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Fonds 21, Dioraphte

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Dalton Jansen (2023)

I don’t know (2023)

As part of the Korzo/NDT format Here We Live and Now, Dalton created a trio that was loosely based on the Belgian movie Le Paradis (Zeno Graton) in which two young men explore an intimate relationship in a juvenile reform center, a place governed by the prohibition of physical contact. In this cinematographic dance work three dancers switch between tenderness and rough masculinity as a blue whirlwind.

choreographer: Dalton Jansen
performers: Gregori Dragoni, Jeroen Janssen, Adam Khazhmuradov
dramaturgy: Marc Maris

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Justin de Jager / Threading Theater (2023)

Brothrs (2023)

Brothers is a performance created by Threading Theatre, a dance company formed by Justin de Jager, Sem Deliveyne and Andreas Tegnander. ‘Brothers’ is Inspired by their close bond and experience as younger brothers – an emotional journey of support, competition, intimacy and collaboration. ’Brothers’ focuses deeper on the theme of brotherhood: feelings like entanglement, competition, struggle, intimacy, connection and cooperation are expressed through a collective physicality.  
 
The piece is embodied by the movement concept of threading, which originates from breakdance. In a thread, they create a physical opening by connecting multiple body parts together and continuing with another body part. This way, the brothers string limbs together in all sorts of different ways – flowing in sync, but also struggling. They form a sequence of movement that pulls the audience into a hypnotic trance. 

Performance: Justin de Jager, Sem Deliveyne
Choreography: Justin de Jager & Sem Deliveyne 
Music: Andreas Tegnander 
Light: Wilbert Van De Boogert
Dramaturgy: Marc Maris & Casper Vandeputte 
Partners Korzo Theater, DOX & Stichting Sample Culture

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Bitter Sweet Dance / Liat Waysbort (2023-2024)

My Life in Excel (2023)

Due to a legal dispute over the care of her two children, a mother is forced to keep track of her life in an Excel sheet for two years. A reality in boxes; true, but at the same time far removed from the life she experienced. How does this cold data relate to the emotional, mental and physical memories of that time? Choreographer Liat Waysbort is back on stage again herself, reflecting on this personal period of her life through dance and text. Memories from that time - frustration, disbelief, broken dreams, but also strength, fighting spirit and feelings of absurdity - become tangible. Big data specialist Dana Ganot joins her on stage and professionally dissects the relationship between data and our daily existence.

choreographer & performer: Liat Waysbort
performer & data specialist: Dana Ganot
artistic associate & dramaturge: Annette van Zwoll
dramaturge: Marc Maris
text direction: Grainne Delaney
set design: Edwin Kolpa
costume design: Bernadette Corstens
music: Guido Verwer
technical director: Mathisse Coornaert
publicity: Fien Lute
production: Athina Liakopoulou
with thanks to: Korzo 
My Life in Excel is supported by: Performing Arts Fund NL, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Fonds21, Het Cultuurfonds, Norma Fonds.

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Adrián Castelló (2023)

Vitruvian Human (2023)

Taking the symbolism of the ‘Vitruvius Man’ - as a representation of an ideal form - as its starting point, the dance performance Vitruvian Human disrupts and deconstructs existing notions of from. The production centers on the transformation of the ideal to new, individual models of a society without bounderies. Vitruvian Human breaks free from the constraints of idealized concepts and traditional gender roles.

Using an interdisciplinary approach that blends contemporary dances and circus, a female and a male dancer perform withing a set design composed of squares and circles. Two car wheels, actively integrated into the performance, serve as the point of intersection between these to disciplines. The symbolism of the circle and the square is explored through their constituent elements: the circle represents the infinite, the celestial, and the feminine, the square represents the finite, the eartly, and the masculine.

Interaction with the two car wheel allows for the exploration and questioning of human individuality, as wel as its redefinition in ways that are multifaceted and diverse.

Choreography: Adrián Castelló
Dance: Lena Visser, Michal Czyz
Dramaturgy: Marc Maris
Outside Eye: Simone Kieltyka
Light Design: Björn Castillano

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Kalpana Raghuraman / Kalpanarts (2017-2019)

Hitting True North (2019)

4 dancers from all over the globe are in search of finding their true north. To be able to connect with their personal compass, the beaten track and delusions of the day need to be defied during their inner journey to the core. In the rituals and the powerful live-music of Oene van Geel and Oleg Fateev they find a navigator but also a saboteur. In this latest piece by choreographer and anthropologist Kalpana Raghuraman, she examines how people relate to constant changes. In her performances, Indian dance language is combined with contemporary dance, and live music is a fixed part of the whole.

Concept: Kalpana Raghurama
Dancers: Indu Panday, Gino Taytelbaum, Lars de Vos, Goda Zukauskaité and Bilal Bachir
Live music & composition: Oene van Geel & Oleg Fateev
light & set: Jeffery Steenbergen
costume designer: Aziz Bekkaoui
dramaturgy: Marc Marc
production manager: Susanne Tuny
press & PR: Anke Riesenkamp
sales: Gysèle Business & Arts
in collaboration with: Korzo Theater and CC Amstel

Superhuman (2018)

Superhuman: Our Inner Darkness is een hedendaagse dansvoorstelling van choreograaf en cultureel antropoloog Kalpana Raghuraman. Zes dansers en een zangeres gaan op zoek naar een nieuwe superheld. Een held die óók kwetsbaar en onaangepast durft te zijn, een superhuman. Zij is geïntrigeerd in alle kanten van de mens die ons ondefinieerbaar en onvoorspelbaar maken. Maar in onder andere mythologie en popcultuur zien we vaak een eenzijdig perspectief. Hercules en Beyoncé lijken voorbeelden van ultieme perfectie. Is het nog wel reëel om te geloven dat deze iconen perfect zijn? Hebben we niet allemaal een innerlijke duisternis en wordt deze misschien te veel onderdrukt? Kalpana groeide op in Nederland in een Indiaas gezin. Als klein meisje verslond zij vele Indiase mythologische stripverhalen, waarin tot haar verbazing goede en slechte personages minder eenzijdig waren dan in de Westerse cultuur. Een superheld kon ook slecht zijn. Deze openheid over de innerlijke duisternis die in ons allen schuilt fascineert Kalpana. In Superhuman: Our Inner Darkness creëert zij een nieuwe superheld door een symbiose van Indiase dans, hedendaagse dans, muziek gecomponeerd door Simone Giacomini en live zang van Lotta Sophie Bakker. Een held die ook de innerlijke duisternis durft te tonen, een superhuman.

Concept, choreografie: Kalpana Raghuraman
Dans: Anuradha Pancham, Álvaro Silva Gómez, Zahira Suliman, Rohiet Tjon Poen Gie, Lars de Vos, Goda Žukauskaitė
Zang: Lotta Sophie Bakker
Muziekcompositie: Simone Giacomini
Libretto: Lotta Sophie Bakker en andere bronnen
Kostuumontwerp: Asalia Khadjé
Lichtontwerp: Frank van Schie, Jeffrey Steenbergen
Technische productie: Disappearow
Uitvoerende techniek: Frank van Schie, Jeffrey Steenbergen
Dramaturgie: Marc Maris
Artistiek advies: Serge Aimé Coulibaly
Zakelijke leiding, verkoop: Gysèle ter Berg
Productieleiding: Susanne Tuny
Marketing , PR: Nanda van Aalst
Grafisch ontwerp: Serena Kloet
Illustrator: Floor de Goede
Fotografie campagnebeeld: Alexander Berdin Lazursky
Scene fotografie: Bowie Verschuuren
Met dank aan Beppie Blankert, Sanne Danz, Andrew van Esch, Roy de Hair, Marjet van Os, Erik Pals, Dave Schwab

Simeon (2017)

Danseres en choreograaf Kalpana Raghuraman baseert haar Indiase moderne dansvoorstelling Kandam Ostinato op de muziekstukken Canto Ostinato en Lemniscaat van de componist Simeon ten Holt. Toen ze dat eerder deed met alleen Canto Ostinato, noemde Theaterkrant het al "een klassieker in de maak". Het wordt nu dus alleen maar beter. Haar dansers werken dit keer ook samen met het strijkkwartet Matangi Quartet, wat zorgt voor een samenwerking dat de composities in een nieuw perspectief plaatst.

Rebels Cross (2017)

In Rebel’s Cross, Sara Cano dances alongside Indian dancers Sooraj Subramaniam and Kamala Devam in a piece choreographed especially for the Flamenco biennial by Kalpana Raghuraman. Taking the Indian classical dance form Bharatanatyam and flamenco as her starting points, the Dutch-Hindustani choreographer goes in search of crossroads in dance with her dancers, to music especially composed for the piece by Jaap van Keulen.

Choreography: Kalpana Raghuraman
Dance: Sara Cano, Sooraj Subramaniam, Kamala Devam
Composition: Jaap van Keulen
Light design: Peter Lemmens
Dramaturgical advice: Marc Maris
Costumes: Asalia Khadjé
Photography: Marjon Broeks
Vocals: Ambika Jois

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