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Residency coming up! In collaboration with @thegreyspaceinthemiddle Diane Mahín @diane.mahin (b. 1993) is a Dutch-Iranian performance maker and sociologist. She makes performances in which sound and physicality are the driving forces. She studied at Goldsmiths, University of London and Maastricht Institute of Performative Arts , and Sandberg Institute @sandberginstituut , and her works have been shown in visual arts, theater, and new music contexts. Residency “During the residency I am working on my new performance GASP, which I am developing together with instrument inventors initiative as part of the Nieuwe Makers Traject of the @fondspodiumkunsten . GASP is a physical and vocal performance that starts from a simple premise: an inhalation." concept, composition, choreography Diane Mahín performers Toni Steffens, Koko Yeji Boanyah, Salya Berraf, Rebecca Lillich Krüger, Ahmed El Gendy dramaturgy Alex Blum light design t.b.d. costume design t.b.d. sound technician t.b.d. advisors Ezequiel Menalled, Marije Baalman, Dieter van Doren, Matteo Marangoni, Bruno Listopad, Esther Snelder, Marijn de Langen, Maribeth Diggle, Rachel Feuchtwang, John de Weerd, Monique Rutten commission and production instrument inventors initiative residency Bau Amsterdam, The Grey Space in the Middle co-production Het Nationale Theater supported by Fonds Podiumkunsten

Starting his residency next week is Lucas Lagomarsino @luquilagomarsino , an Argentinian choreographer and artist based in Amsterdam. Lucas recently graduated from SNDO (School for New Dance Development, 2025) and is currently part of the Master’s program in Art and Performance Research at the University of Amsterdam, where his writing engages with autotheory, negativity, and the tension between the non-conceptual, the literal, and dance. Trained in contemporary dance and theatre, he previously studied at the Drama School University in Buenos Aires. Since 2012, he has been performing while working across hybrid works, dance projects, and collaborations with local and international artists. His practice centers on modes of representation, unfolding a theatricality that hovers between the absurd and the romantic—at once hot and precarious. His compositional work opens through speculation and an ongoing inquiry into the transmission of information. Across his projects, he explores the collapse between dreams and dance archives as a way of surviving, or imagining. Workshop: dance or what else < danza o que > 30.05.26, 11 – 14h Bau Oost, Entrepotdok 4, Amsterdam sign up: bau.amsterdam Public Sharing: 19.06.26, 20h Bau Oost, Entrepotdok 4, Amsterdam Free entrance, book a ticket: bau.amsterdam

WE LIVE HERE 2026: rooting 🌱 6 - 10 July | Amsterdam Nicole Beutler Projects, Mapping Colonial History & Bau welcome you to this year’s WE LIVE HERE summer academy. WE LIVE HERE offers time and space to experiment, research, and reflect. A community of professionals from the performing arts and beyond, gathers to work and think together. We are very excited to announce that Sithabile Mlotshwa, together with the global initiative Mapping Colonial History, will host a week-long laboratory titled ROOTING: from Extraction to Relationship. About Sithabile Mlotshwa Sithabile Mlotshwa (Zimbabwe, 1975) is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher, filmmaker, and cultural producer. Her research-based practice, rooted in a transdisciplinary approach always toward the same horizon: the truth of what colonialism did, is doing, and what healing requires. About Mapping Colonial History Mapping Colonial History (MCH) iMCH is a trans-disciplinary, cross continental and cross-cultural project healing the world through culture. Not as history, but as something that is happening now, continuously reproducing itself while erasing its own operations and the alternatives. Contribution € 280,- excl. VAT*, this includes the full five day program, including daily delicious vegan meals and a visit to a selected performance at Julidans Festival. * = 21% VAT for all participants 21 and up More info or want to participate? See our #linkinbio or email [email protected]

DANCE OR WHAT ELSE < danza o qué > WORKSHOP 30/05 / 11h to 14h at @bau_platform east ( donation based ! from 1 euro ) subscription link on my bio ## | the question at the end is only there to speculate on what other things, besides dancing, are danced when we make dance happen. what else opens up a space to think about possibilities in relation to self perceptions when we move, sensorially and kinetically and when theatricality starts to appear, placing questions about being seen | the workshop is composed of 💭 entry - restarting - intention - warm up practice - about the research dance - dance exit - accumulation of meaning - ending this meeting is for people with body/focus practices. it unfolds through a spatial structure where we put into movement the things we want to know, in order to see them. will be live music playing. 🗯️ the space on the picture is @nos.envera in buenos aires / 3d bodies background design < enzo luziano, rodolfo opazo ~~~~ my practice centers on modes of representation, unfolding a theatricality that hovers between the absurd and the romantic—at once hot and precarious. the compositional work opens through speculation and an ongoing inquiry into the transmission of information and my current writing engages with autotheory, negativity, and the tension between the non-conceptual, the literal, and dance. see you xx ✨

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In the studio with Bau Air The Grey Space resident @diane.mahin “During the residency I am working on my new performance GASP, which I am developing together with instrument inventors initiative as part of the Nieuwe Makers Traject of the Fonds Podiumkunsten. GASP is a physical and vocal performance that starts from a simple premise: an inhalation. We see five figures inhaling in order to speak. Normally, an exhalation follows: a word, a sentence, a scream, an action. In GASP, however, the people evolve into figures in which every form of exhalation — including the voice — is withheld. They remain suspended in an unfinished impulse. Everything comes in, but nothing can come out. The entire performance becomes a build-up without release. What begins as an inability slowly shifts into another way of being. This turns the people into hybrid beings who continue to search relentlessly for movement within this new reality.”

THE THING, THE SECOND & THE FIST | research on residency / @bau_platform & @frascatiamsterdam 22.05.26 / 19.06.26 > public sharing Unfolds as an ongoing practice of staging a duet, not only with another human figure, but with something else; a fiction, a reggaeton, a sent nude, an impossible text and to work on the things between, as a way to loosen the immediacy between meaning and what is being seen. The what that would emerge after working through the how within the practice of the residency, Dancing through a crisis of fantasy, where the consumption of images exceeds their production, and what is seen becomes somewhat pasteurised, the work looks for openings, in-betweens, where the choreographic can displace itself and embody - out of? - the muchness. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨🫳🏻 Lucas Lagomarsino is an argentinean choreographer and artist based in Amsterdam. He recently graduated from SNDO (School for New Dance Development, 2025) and is currently part of the Master’s program in Art and Performance Research at the University of Amsterdam, where his writing engages with autotheory, negativity, and the tension between the non-conceptual, the literal, and dance. His practice centers on modes of representation, unfolding a theatricality that hovers between the absurd and the romantic—at once hot and precarious. His compositional work opens through speculation and an ongoing inquiry into the transmission of information. Across his projects, he explores the collapse between dreams and dance archives as a way of surviving, or imagining. Trained in contemporary dance and theatre, he previously studied at the Drama School University in Buenos Aires. Since 2012, he has been performing while working across hybrid works, dance projects, and collaborations with local and international artists. ~ Credits 🗯️ artistic collaboration and performer, helene ridderberg @heleneridderberg music composition, josefina gilardi @jjjosefinag costume, laura fernandez antolin @perishablelllllllnstants choreographic research, hayden @_hhhayden_ wilchaan roy cantu @wilchaan advisors, lani hanna, lisa skwirblies. pictures, peter viksna @peterisviksna 🎟️ released soon ! ish 🫳🏻✨

Craving van Annica Muller en Kees Roorda gaat over verslaving. Niet als statistiek, maar als mens. Over pijn, worsteling en de veerkracht die daaronder ligt. Over iets wat velen vreemd is. en misschien dichterbij dan we denken. Alleen deze week te zien in BAU Amsterdam 👇 📅 Do 30 april, 20:00 📅 Vr 1 mei, 15:00 📅 Za 2 mei, 20:00 Kaarten voot maar € 5,- op viarudolphi.nl. 📷 Reinout Bos

Starting her residency at Bau Oost today is Diane Mahin, welcome @diane.mahin ! Diane Mahín (b. 1993) is a Dutch-Iranian performance maker and sociologist. She makes performances in which sound and physicality are the driving forces. Diane scrutinizes the human body as a material object in order to dissect social constructions. Her works focus on bodysounds (guts, growls, cries, breaths) which she uses to create performative codes shaped by the learned behaviors of an unbearable society. She creates space for the ugliness and darkness of daily life without softening it, sometimes provoking laughter you did not see coming. She studied at Goldsmiths, University of London and Maastricht Institute of Performative Arts, and Sandberg Institute, and her works have been shown in visual arts, theater, and new music contexts. Public Sharing 29.05 20h Free Entrance, RSVP see link in bio 📸 Marjolein Vogels

Few glimpses from the premiere of Propanal (Program II), a festival collaboration by SNDO3 and ECD2. 💫 SNDOxECD is a project where students of two dance departments of the Academy of Theater and Dance (@atdamsterdam ) work together: 3rd-year choreographers (SNDO) with 2nd-year dancers (ECD). 💙Thank you: Jozef Jie Sheng Chua (@closebyparadise ) with Sampo Cameron Stevenson (@sampo.stevenson ), Miki Smith (@mikismithhh ) & Ksenia Davydova (@kseniadavydov_a ) Nayo Sauter (@oxitropis ) with Nis Hagen (@folks.farben ), Déborah Sounouvou (@deborah_sounouvou ), Adjeng Ginzburg (adjeng.gzb) & Troy Florent (@troyflorent ) Alla Kravchenko (@allashliakhova ) with Ael Boudehent Le Bideau (@ael_blb ) Saqar Saharkhiz (@8saghar9 ) with Heda Cavadore Vieceli (@hedacavadore ), Jasmine Urie (@jas_u_15 ), Guusje Kummer (@guusjekummer ) & Lovis Westkant (@lovis_westman ) Marley Meijer (@aangereden.wasbeer ) with Eline Bruynel (@elinebruynel ) & Annamaria Cancellara (@annacancellaraa ) 🎟️ SNDO continues this week with its next program: SNDO2 festival “555”. Tix in our BIO. See you there ✨ #sndoprogram

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Proefvoorstellingen: CRAVING met Annica Muller & Kees Roorda Taal: Nederlands / In Dutch Bau Oost, Entrepotdok 4, Amsterdam Tickets: €5 - link in bio / bau.amsterdam 30.04 - 20u 01.05 - 15h 02.05 - 20h Craving is een proef voor een nieuwe voorstelling van Annica Muller en Kees Roorda, ontstaan uit hun gezamenlijke zoektocht naar thema’s als Craving is een intieme en interactieve locatievoorstelling. Het publiek neemt plaats in een kring, tussen de acteurs, waardoor de afstand tussen speler en toeschouwer verdwijnt. De makers lieten zich inspireren door hun eigen betrokkenheid bij het onderwerp en spraken met verslaafden en mensen die verslaving van binnenuit kennen. Daardoor geeft Craving een gezicht aan de mens achter de verslaving, aan hun pijn, hun worsteling en hun veerkracht. Met Craving willen de makers het vaak onbespreekbare onderwerp verslaving bespreekbaar maken en tegelijkertijd een belangrijke bijdrage leveren aan preventie. De voorstelling nodigt uit tot verbinding en een menselijker blik op een wereld die velen vreemd is of misschien wel dichterbij dan we denken. Afgelopen oktober en november waren de makers in residentie bij Bau AIR Base, waar zij tijdens de public sharing een tekstlezing van de eerste ruwe opbrengsten van dit onderzoek presenteerden. In De Vrije Ruimte van @viarudolphi ontwikkelen de makers Craving verder en presenteren zij hun uitkomsten.