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WhyNot X BIMHUIS – Becoming Mountain
Dec
3

WhyNot X BIMHUIS – Becoming Mountain

WhyNot X BIMHUIS -
Presentation of Becoming Mountain

Dec 3rd in BIMHUIS

 

Choreographer, performer and musician Ibelisse Ferragutti and post-digital artist, audiovisual performer and researcher Zalán Szakács present the result of the project Becoming Mountain they’ve created for the bigger interdisciplinary research around the theme Ancient Future.

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WhyNot X BIMHUIS: Music Meets Dance: MAY 2026
May
14

WhyNot X BIMHUIS: Music Meets Dance: MAY 2026

WhyNot X BIMHUIS: Music Meets Dance

with:
Annelie Koning & Miri Lee
Joshua Herwig & Lea Ved
Raphael Vanoli & Tú Hoàng
Amber Docters van Leeuwen & Klára Alexová

 

Dancers and musicians express the art of being in the moment, in four improvised duets.

 

Café open: 18.30
Starts: 20.30

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Four performances, each with a dancer and a musician, improvising freely. This could well be the start of wonderful new collaborations. And a compelling experience for the audience. Together with dance platform WhyNot we have linked up these renowned performers. They have all developed their own forms of expression.

Annelie Koning & Miri Lee

The voice forms the heart of the work of Annelie Koning. The Amsterdam-based performer and singer works between music and theatre. For example, she explores the voice in relation to poetry in the formation BLIK that she co-founded with met Luc Ex en Tristan Renfrow. Miri Lee is an ‘imprographer’ and choreographer who has left a distinct mark on Amsterdam’s artistic landscape. She is known for her collaborations with leading figures in visual art, music, science, poetry, theater, and film.

 

Joshua Herwig & Lea Ved

As a cellist and composer, Joshua Herwig has won prestigious awards such as the Dutch Jazz Competition, De Jonge Makers Prize, and Keep an Eye the Records, in various ensembles. His music fuses lyricism, groove, texture, and dynamics into a dazzling sound world. As a choreographer and performer, Lea Ved creates work that is both raw and poetic, investigating movement as a living, breathing language. Born in the US and living in The Netherlands, she has danced with Royal Swedish Ballet and Nederlands Dans Theater, among others.

 

Raphael Vanoli & Tú Hoàng

Guitarist Raphael Vanoli developed his own sonic universe by experimenting with electronics and unorthodox techniques. He’s part of the duo Knalpot and he collaborates with, among others, Jameszoo, Slagwerk Den Haag and Asko|Schönberg. Tú Hoàng is a Vietnamese-Dutch choreographer and movement artist known for his fusion of contemporary dance, martial arts, urban styles, and Taoist philosophy. He works internationally across dance, film, and multidisciplinary platforms.

 

Amber Docters van Leeuwen & Klára Alexová

Amber Docters van Leeuwen is a composer, and performer. Her work emerges from a research-based approach in which sound, theatre, and documentary elements are interwoven. She studied at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague and the Manhattan School of Music in New York. Klára Alexová is an actress with a background in dance theatre. With her own work she moves between the Czech Republic, where she was born, and The Netherlands, where she lives. She collaborated with, among others, Boukje Schweigman, Davy Pieters and The Paper Ensemble.

 

Annelie Koning vocals, Miri Lee dance
Joshua Herwig cello & Lea Ved dance
Raphael Vanoli guitar & Tú Hoàng dance
Amber Docters van Leeuwen cello & Klára Alexová dance

 
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ECD X WhyNot X Connor Schumacher: Because. We Pretend / We should
Apr
9
to Apr 10

ECD X WhyNot X Connor Schumacher: Because. We Pretend / We should

  • 1 Amstel Amsterdam, NH, 1011 VW Netherlands (map)
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ECD X WhyNot X Connor Schumacher:
Because. We Pretend /
We should

A collaboration between 3rd year students and choreographer Connor Schumacher, coproduced by WhyNot.

Date: Thu 9 & Fri 10 April
Time: 19:30 - 20:15
Venue: At the artwork of André Volten - Amstel 1, (Waterlooplein)

at the square in front of stadhuis-Muziektheater
Free entrance

 
 

70 hours of dancing together. Balancing choreographic and improvisational scores. A comment on energy, togetherness, and position through musicality and lyrical music performed in public space. What is mine? What belongs to me? My productivity, my motives, my morals, the changes in my life? Do they belong to me?

 

CREDITS

Choreography/Direction: Connor Schumacher
Made in collaboration with ECD3
Design concept: Elsemarijn Bruijs
Video design: Jeisson Drenth
Rehearsal Assistant: Vivianne Rodrigues de Brito
Production: Michael Scerbo (WhyNot), Dorothea Sinnema (ATD)
Venue managers: Juliette Moonen, Camille Pas
Technique at Venue: Anton van Wolfswinkel

 

Connor Schumacher

Connor Schumacher is founder and artistic leader of Stichting ARK. Connor has developed as a dance artist under the wings of Dansateliers. Here he made The Fool (2015), Asset, Liability and Equity (2016), Exhibition (2017), OK Future (2017), THREESOME (2019) and Funny Soft Happy & The Opposite (2019). Establishing ARK in 2020 he continued producing Pilot PC (2021), Club INC with Theater Babel Rotterdam (2023), and Raging Against Various Elements (2024) which was nominated for most impressive dance production of 2024 by the VSCD jury & Festival Nederlandse Dansdagen.

Connor makes performances and social choreographic works for theaters, museums, festivals, and clubs. All activities are situated in different and overlapping contexts, where the higher goal is to get people moving, physically and mentally.

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