Teachers
Christiaan den Dulk
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 [...]
Imre van den Bosch
Imre van den Bosch Bio: Imre van den Bosch graduated as a theatre maker in 2018 from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht. He works as a freelance theatre maker and educator. He gives theatre trainings and workshops at theatre groups and schools. He likes to travel and to teach and make theatre at international youth [...]
Mattis Nicklas
Mattis Nicklas Bio: Mattis Nicklas is a sculptor and comes from the region between Strasbourg and Cologne, where the classical gothic sculptural art of the great European cathedrals was created and further developed. He graduated from the MHK Kaiserlautern in Germany. This master school specialises in the tradition of medieval cathedral building and therefore works [...]
Hugo de Graaf
Hugo de Graaf Bio: Hugo de Graaf (he/him) is 25 years old and a fourth-year student Dance in Education at the AHK. He is also graduating from the Physiotherapy studies at the HvA and is on the board of HvA Pride for the second academic year. Hugo enjoys going to the 'We are Queer' gym, [...]
Maria Alabern
Maria Alabern Bio: My name Is Maria Alabern, I’m from Barcelona, currently living in Amsterdam. I’m a dancer based in Contemporary dance and West African Street dance styles. Dance is my way of living, it allows me to connect the spiritual path with the journey on this earth. My biggest goal is to spread love [...]
Abel Tuinstra
Abel Tuinstra Bio: Abel Tuinstra is multi-instrumentalist, componist en muziekdocent. Hij heeft een klassieke achtergrond maar studeerde in 2018 af als poptoetsenist aan het Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Naast het spelen in allerlei luidruchtige bands en theatervoorstellingen, brengt hij zijn eigen muziek uit onder de naam Abel Natürlich. Voor Abel betekent solfège (toch een wat vaag [...]
Ellis van der Does
Ellis van der Does Bio: Ellis D (Ellis van der Does) works as an illustrator + animator. When you take a trip into 'illustration wonderland' with her, you enter a 2D universe full of bright colours and different textures. Ellis' style is clear and she often combines different existing shapes to create a new story. [...]
Casper Thiel
Casper Thiel Bio: Casper was trained as a fiction director at the Netherlands Film Academy and has worked as a director for various drama and documentary productions for television. In addition, he has often been on the set of fiction films as FirstAD. Since 2005 he has been working part-time as a film teacher for [...]
Vainergill Thurnim
Vainergill Thurnim Bio: Vainergill Thurnim is a 25-year-old Amsterdam-based dance artist. In 2020, she graduated from the dance teacher training programme, Academy for Theatre and Dance. Prior to that, she did the preliminary training and MBO at the Lucia Marthas Institute for Performing Arts. She connects her training in commercial and contemporary dance using West [...]
Boudewijn Jansen
Boudewijn Jansen Bio: Met zijn tomeloze energie en kunde wist Boudewijn Jansen in de zomer van 2022 alle SKA-harten te veroveren. Van opera tot orkest, van koor tot componist—deze man is van alle markten thuis! Al bijna dertig jaar is hij verbonden aan de muzikale staf van De Nationale Opera en sinds 2003 is hij [...]