The ATD Lectorate focuses on creative practice research in performance that has an impact on education, the working field and society in the four thematic areas of social justice and inclusion; climate crisis; care and wellbeing; and ways of knowing and not-knowing.
It includes research groups in Embodied Knowledge, Creative Producing, and Health, as well as the THIRD program, which supports the development of artistic research in the 3rd cycle. Through its partnerships and projects, the Lectorate aims to be “locally rooted and globally connected” and to centre knowledges coming from the global South and non-European traditions.
The ATD wants to embed research at the heart of the curriculum so that students graduate with the tools they need to thrive as artists doing lifelong research that is connected to its social context.
ATD (Academie voor Dans en Theater) - Opening gathering with SOUTH BOOM BOOM and Acuerpadas Papaya Kuir Contributors: Lectorate + South Boom Boom project Yujing Liu (BA SNDO), Mario Lopes (DAS Choreography), Flavia Pinheiro (THIRD) and Sofia Castro (BA SNDO), Papaya Kuir, Paula Montecinos (THIRD). SOUTH BOOM BOOM is a multi-lingual collection of performative texts originating from a project at DAS Graduate School combining contributions from artists participating in the Theatre and Choreography programs, alumni and invited guests. Edited by Mario Lopes, Flavia Pinheiro and Tom Oliver with Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, this special section is part of the larger, multi-year project SOUTH BOOM BOOM which “invites artists to discuss the importance of dissenting invisibility in art and education to contribute to knowledge on how institutions can articulate and enact an anti-racist and anti-colonial agenda.” Among the connecting threads of the texts is the affirmation of collectivity and “collective doing” (Lopes) over individualism in artistic research. With readings from: Yujing Liu (BA SNDO), Mario Lopes (DAS Choreography), Flavia Pinheiro (THIRD) and Sofia Castro (BA SNDO). Papaya Kuir will be also launching a fanzine with contributions from the Latinx Kuir Community. Papaya Kuir is an intersectional feminist collective for & by Trans and Lesbian Queer Latinx Asylum seekers in the Netherlands including Paula Montecinos (THIRD). Acuerpadxs, is a zine that assembles written stories, notes, collages and visual traces of trans*latinx migrant community living in the Netherlands. The material was created in the context of somatic laboratory - Trans*latinx memories sessions organized with Papaya Kuir collective, with the aim to democratize learning and knowledge production processes, creating support networks and cross-pollination between academic, artistic spaces and grassroots communities that don’t have access to these healing technologies. This zine is a col
Keywords:
Care Wellbeing Grief + Loss
climate crisis
Klimaatcrisis
Manieren van Weten en Niet-Weten
performing arts
Social justice and inclusion
Ways of Knowing and Not-Knowing
