Since graduating from Fontys Theatre Academy in Tilburg in 2011, I have worked as a theatre maker, performer and teacher/coach. I have always maintained warm relationships with the circus world alongside my work with performance company Zwermers.

Circus has an elemental quality. Either something works or it goes wrong. It relates to the elements and uses elemental geometric forms. I am fascinated by its truthfulness. In October 2020 I will be participating in the Maker for a week course at TENT to do a research on the ground beneath our feet, and in particular what happens when this ground becomes unstable. The rocking of a sinking ship is a symbol for the preservability of our reality, and how this is now under pressure.


I have taught and created shows at ACAPA (Academy for Circus and Performance Arts). These shows were performed at Festival Circolo (2016, 2018, 2019), the Theater op de Markt festival (2019) and during an exchange project with Switzerland. I have also worked as a physical performance coach with Recirquel (Budapest, Hungary) and with various circus makers in the Netherlands.

MAKER FOR
a week

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