‘High Shine,’ written by Tamara Antonijević in complicity with Catalina Insignares (THIRD alumna), is book six of the growing collection of De Nieuwe Dansbibliotheek and book zero of the Notebooks initiated by the fellows of THIRD, the 3rd cycle research programme of DAS Graduate School, supported by DAS Publishing (Lectorate of the Academy of Theatre and Dance) and financed by the Quality Funds.

You can order the dutch version of the book here. 

About the writers: 

Tamara Antonijević (1989) writes and works as a dramaturge and artistic collaborator in performance, theatre and dance pieces. She studied Dramaturgy at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, and holds an MA from the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, Germany. The role of text in collaborative processes is the focus of her interest and research. She is currently a Phd candidate at the Applied Arts University Vienna. She is co-hosting and teaching in the MA programme Live Art Forms at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg.

Catalina Insignares (1987) is a Colombian choreographer and dancer based in Brussels. She’s interested in how to draw on the sensorial and fictional means of the body and of touch to develop ways to communicate with the invisible. She works always in collaboration and long-term associations for choreography, dramaturgy, teaching and performance. Since 2015, Catalina collaborates with Carolina Mendonça, maintaining close complicity in different manners of working together: reading groups, telepathic dances, psychic vision sessions, caress and massage populate these encounters. Since 2017, she has been working with Myriam Lefkowitz as a performer as well as in a collaboration that seeks to infiltrate sensory practices in the social and political realities of exiled people. Catalina was part of THIRD, DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam, in 2019–2022. Since 2019 she is a co-curator at the Gessnerallee in Zurich, where she developed the festival El Caldo and the curatorial programme Discrete.