Teachers

Rebecca Smaak Bio: Rebecca Smaak met her passion for dance during a CREA Hip Hop course. From then on, she dedicated her life to dance. She attended several workshops, courses and choreography projects in the urban style, and started teaching both young people and adults herself. She also works on other dance projects. Last year, [...]

Frank Bloem Bio: Frank Bloem is originally a visual artist. Starting in 2014, he began working on creating perfumes and designing scents for exhibitions. He designed elephant scents for Artis, he created a North Sea perfume for the Embassy of the North Sea, and he manages the Aroma Lab at art center Mediamatic. His company [...]

Shira Koopman Bio: Following her dance career, Shira studied photography at the Fotoacademie Amsterdam. Her current work as a photographer is very diverse. She mainly shoots portraits and reportage for clients from the cultural sector, both on location and in her studio. Since a few years she is pursuing her development as an autonomous photographer. [...]

Maruja Bobo Remijn Bio: Maruja Bobo Remijn is a drama teacher, director and theatre maker. Among other things, she worked at the University of Amsterdam, where she taught subjects on the intersection between theatre and philosophy. Maruja has a great fondness for interdisciplinary forms of theatre, such as music theatre and movement theatre. In her [...]

Alexandra Loembé Bio: Alexandra Loembé is a Russian-Congolese dance and movement artist. She completed her dance teacher training at the Academy of Theatre and Dance in 2020. Additionally, she further trained with the SNDO (ATD/AHK), Boukje Schweigman (Schweigman&), Ecole des Sables and others. Alexandra has experience in teaching and creating with dance (pre)courses, (non-)professional dancers [...]

Jacob Surendonk Bio: Jacob Surendonk is a guitarist and guitar teacher. After his conservatoire days in Hilversum and Amsterdam, he mainly focused on a classical repertoire while performing a lot. He has always played in bands, which took up so much of his time that the classical guitar had to give way. He likes the [...]

Juliette Dominicus Bio: Juliette Dominicus is a documentary director, researcher and videographer. After her bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences (Utrecht University) she worked at the Professionals department of the Netherlands Film Festival and followed the master's degree in Documentary and Fiction Film (University of Amsterdam) with a specialization in the development process of [...]

Hannah van Binsbergen Bio: Hannah van Binsbergen (1993, Haarlem) published the poetry collections Kwaad Gesternte (2016, awarded the VSB poetry prize and the Herman de Coninck debut prize) and Kokanje (2022), and the novel Harpie (2020). Hannah teaches workshops in creative writing at Stichting Perdu and the Schrijversvakschool, among others, and regularly performs her poetry [...]

Christiaan den Dulk Bio: Christiaan den Dulk graduated from the AHK's Theatre Teacher Training Programme in 2013. He was a permanent member of De Theatertroep for several years, while also developing as an independent theatre maker and teacher. He taught at various schools, created performances for Theater Na de Dam and made adaptations of classical [...]