DOCseries

as a network of branches, signposts for conceptual processes.

Questioning how continuous development could manifest itself in the continuum of an artistic process resulted in DOCseries - artistic platform for interdisciplinary practice led research -
Along the way new things appear and we make those part of the work in both form and content. The work transforms with new resources that brings for us a fresh vibrancy to this sort of networked system of branches - signposts for the different conceptual processes - Working through Doc Series in phases thus becomes for us a way of looking at the future: a form of uncontrollable control.
It never really exists...

Multi-year collaboration with DansBrabant and network of partners in various disciplines.

‘We are fascinated to go through the everyday life and it's inevitable banalities and social expectations.
The distinction between the fictional world and real life is becoming increasingly diffuse. Delving into deeply rooted role models and archetypes, the merging of irreconcilable identities and the physical extensions we use for them. relationships between people, the variables of what is perfectly normal, the (non-)logic of our actions, and the imprint that the outside world leaves behind in our bodies’.

Each project starts a new dialogic process with dancers/performers without necessarily immediately leading to a performance or permanent collaboration. A place for short-term exchanges and new, different types of collaborations within the broad field of performance arts. These projects can be customized in presentation to fit the needs of performance space.

Kristel van Issum | choreographer

The Dutch choreographer and artist Kristel van Issum works on the intersection of dance, film and visual arts. She was artistic director and choreographer for 20 years with her company T.r.a.s.h. Dance Performance Group in Tilburg (NL). With this renowned Tilburg collective T.r.a.s.h. she made short films in addition to numerous performances. Her work has been shown worldwide, including Festival de Marseille (F), National Arts Centre in Ottawa (CA), La Cinquieme Salle at Place des Arts Montreal (CA), Abrons Arts Center New York and festival Internacional de Videodanza Movimiento en movimiento (MX). She is founding director of Document Series, a research based project (2020 - 2028) evolved from within a community of artists featuring a concept of artistic interdisciplinary experimentation creating film, video installations, projects such as LOST (dance and digital technology). Currently she is in-house choreographer at DansBrabant in Tilburg (NL). Van Issum has an expanding teaching practice at Fontys Dance Arts in Context and is a returning guest choreographer at Frankfurt Hochschule für Musik und Tanz. She recently created her second choreography ‘Winterwende’ in collaboration with Tanz_Kassel which can be seen in season ‘24/’25 in Staatstheater Kassel (DE).

Martin Kers | MMXI filmmaker

In 1996 Martin Kers started as digital image manipulator for (analogue) photographers. Working with still images evolved into a moving image sequence and editing, motion-graphics and animation were added to the mix. 

Since the beginning of the digital visual culture he is working at the cutting edge of photography, film and animation. In the beginning as LADDS - the organisation of imagination, nowadays as MMXI. Together with Kristel van Issum he created numerous short films and video-installations that were shown internationally. His work was displayed at the Venice Biennale, les nuits blanches in Paris, Robodock festival Amsterdam and Playgrounds Festival.

Han Stubbe | composer

Musician, composer en co-founder / clarinet player of Antwerp based band DAAU (die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung). He also works as a composer on various theater and dance performances. (Toneelhuis, KC Nona, C-mine, Intro In Situ, WC Zuiderpershuis, T.r.a.s.h.).

Ulrika Kinn-Svensson | performer | co-creator catalog of shadows

Ulrika Kinn Svensson (Falkenberg, Sweden 1980) moved to Holland to study dance at Fontys Dance Academy in Tilburg (NL) in 1999. During her study she started to work with the underground performance collective T.R.A.S.H, a company that she would return to work with on several occasion during her career.

In 2010 Ulrika created the duet ‘Somethimes its There’ together with Koen dePreter. The duet was selected by Eurowawes for an european tour. Ulrika also worked with artists/choreographers such as Choi Ka Fai (Singapore), Javier Barcala, Christoph Koppens,(BE) Kristel van Issum(NL) and Jelena Kostic. Ulrika is currently Artistic Leader at Fontys Dance Academy in Tilburg.

In 2012 she danced in the movie ’Anna Karenina’ directed by Joe Wright with choreography from Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. The movie starred Keira Knightley and Jude Law. Ulrika also assisted Damian Jalet on several of his solo and duet projects. During her Dansweb scholarship at Impulstanz in Vienna in 2023 she met Cris Haring and Stephanie Cummings/Liquid Loft. She later joined the company and performed in ‘Kind of Heroes’, ‘My Private Bodyshop’ and in the film ‘Partime Heroes’.

In 2022 she moved to Gent (BE) to work with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damian Jalet/Les Ballets C de la B. In the coming 10 years she performed in their award winning productions; ‘foi’, ‘Myth’and ‘Babel’. These productions toured to all major festival and stages around the world.

Johnny Lloyd | performer | co-creator the soldier

For 15 years Johnny Lloyd has been traveling the world as a Lindy Hop and Charleston teacher. His genres eventually expanded to include many of the dances coming from African American dance culture including the various forms of Hip Hop.

In 2003 he created his first full length solo “Accidental Artist”, which was praised by critiques. After self producing several more evening length dance productions, he started receiving support from the German Culture Office to create large scale dance production in coproduction with Kampnagel in Hamburg. He also started choreographing shows or music videos for avante garde German Hip Hop artists like Fettes Brot, Die Ärtze, Sammy Delux and Juli. In Germany he created over 10 feature dance productions, all of them critically acclaimed, and worked as a guest choreographer for various Stadttheater.

In 2011 he was invited to Fontys Dansacademie as a guest lecturer to help co-create a profile for curriculum for the Contemporary Urban department. In 2012-2013 he toured with the co-creation “Unpunished”, made together with Guilherme Miotto and Bodies Anonymous.

In 2013 Johnny started dancing for the renown choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. He danced in “M¡longa” and “Genesis”, and in 2014 worked as assistant choreographer for Sidi Larbi in the current Cirque du Soleil creation “Kurios”. He recently danced for Eastman/Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui for the trio “Fractus (Work in Progress)”, commissioned for the 40th anniversary of the Pina Bausch company, and the Opera “Shell Shock” for La Monnaie in Brussels.

Blennard Azizaj | performer  | co-creator in transit

Blenard Azizaj was born in Albania. He Studied at the National State School of Dance in Greece, where he was graduated as a Dancer / Dance Pedagogy and Choreography.He has worked and collaborated with various companies around Europe such as Sasha Waltz & Guests in Berlin, the Akram Khan Company in London, and Cie Linga in Lausanne. His career has taken him around the globe, touring and performing in international dance festivals.

In addition, he works as a choreographer and dance instructor, teaching his dance dialect in dance companies, dance & theatre academies, and several studios around the world.
He is currently  choreographing and producing his original pieces such as NoBody's Land, Fleeting Feathers, Walls, In the Beginning, Sacred Scars and numerous others.

Anne-Marije van den Bersselaar | dramaturgy

Anne-Marije van den Bersselaar is masters coordinator at the Master Institute of Visual Cultures.

She is dramaturge in dance and performance art. Since 12 years she works with different international choreographers (Mor Shani, Hilde Elbers, Kristel van Issum, Joost Vrouenraets e.d.). Her original craft is founded on dramaturgy in performance art with a focus on the (embodied) creational process by insightful, cross-border perspectives. In creations I guard personal, authentic ideas and co-create new contexts and audience engagement by studying prototypes and their potential. As a dramaturge Anne-Marije collaborates and facilitates creational art practice by researching, analyzing, coaching & reflecting. By dramaturgy she became aware of shifting perspectives in helicopter- as well as detailed views on processes in creation, organization and education.

She has a Master of Arts degree in Theatre Studies at the University of Utrecht, with a thesis in academic dance curricula perceived as artistic constructs. In 2015 she founded the Concept Store for Artistic Strategies: A Design Agency for Creative Storytelling (2015) to be able to engage dramaturgic processes in different creational contexts and domains. Anne-Marije has been teaching art theory, philosophy and research courses at Fontys Dance Academy for over 7 years. Aside she also co-designed a new cross-disciplinary Master programme Performing Public Space (PPS) at Fontys University of Fine and Performing Arts.

Lucie Petrušová | performer l.o.s.t.

studied and trained in the philosophy of Isadora Duncan in Prague and also studied at the Codarts Academy in Rotterdam and Fontys Academy in Tilburg (NL). Lucie (with a basis in power yoga, pilates and flying low technique) is one of the founders of the extreme physical dance vocabulary which is the trademark of award-winning dance/performance group T.r.a.s.h.(NL). She has also worked with many artists across Europe - LaLa, Uri Ivgi, Merx&Dancers and Mimbre. 

Andrea Beugger | performer l.o.s.t.

Andrea Beugger, born and raised in Switzerland, started dancing at the age of four. In 1993, Andrea graduated from the Rotterdam Academy of Arts.

Her impressive dancecareer goes through Jakop Ahlbom Compagny, Krisztina de Chatel, Hans Hof Ensemble, Karina Holla, Panama Pictures, Danstheater Aya, Vloeistof, Danstheater Telder, Bollwerk, Plan-D, Boukje Schweigman, Dylan Newcomb, Tanzplan Ost, PeterGreeneway and many more.
Through the years she did a large number of collaborations,and also worked as a choreographer for several productions for example Stadschouwburg Amsterdam, Fontys Dance Academy as a workshopleader, coach and dramaturge and she co-founded the Music-Theatre Company Pra. ‘Pra’ develops innovative dance and music projects with and for the elderly in collaboration with children and students of art schools.

Dazja | performer l.o.s.t.