Save the date: ATD Research Month 2025
DAS Graduate School
Upcoming events
Faculty and Instructional Staff
- Dr. Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca (Lector ATD)
- Gwenoële Trapman (DAS Creative Producing - Artistic Director)
- Jeroen Fabius (DAS Choreography - Artistic Director)
- Ingrid Vranken (DAS Theatre - Artistic Director)
Contact: dasgraduateschool@ahk.nl
- Director: Dr. Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
- Educational support / Front-office: Yeng Nacion & Martin Brans
- Financial coordinator: John Meijerink
- Communication: Hans Klijn
- Technical coordinator : Harco Haagsma
- Technical assistance: Udo Akemann
- Facility support : Jop van Galen
Contact: dasgraduateschool@ahk.nl
- Artistic director: Ingrid Vranken
- Student counsellor & Coach: Juul Beeren
- Coordinator educational platform & Financial coordinator: John Meijerink
- Production Coordinator: Maaike Boot
Students & alumni
Contact dastheatre@ahk.nl
- Artistic director: Jeroen Fabius
- Tutor: Konstantina Georgelou
- Production manager & Educational assistance: Velvet Leigh, Annick Kleizen (Interim)
Contact: daschoreography@ahk.nl
Students & alumni
- Artistic director: Gwenoële Trapman
- Teaching staff: Marijke Schaap
- Production Coordinator: Yeng Nacion
Contact: dascreativeproducing@ahk.nl
- Professor / Lector & Head of DAS Graduate School: Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
- THIRD Head: Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
- THIRD Coordinator: Sanne Kersten
- DAS Research Management assistant: Marilixe Beernink
Contact: das-research@ahk.nl
DAS Masters & ATD Lectorate
DAS Theatre is a master’s programme for research-based artistic and curatorial practices in the field of theatre that is open to Dutch and international practitioners working in the performing arts as artists, curators, directors, performance makers and dramaturgs.
DAS Theatre is a full-time, two-year residential programme in which individual trajectories can benefit from a community of peers, tutors and advisors. It provides a working space, workshop sessions with guest teachers, and a broad international network.
Artists and curators come together in a programme that supports artistic and curatorial research, challenges professional boundaries and cultivates potential connections with audiences, institutions, discourses, partners and collaborators.
DAS Theatre was previously named DasArts – Master of Theatre. This institute was founded in 1994 by Ritsaert ten Cate. Read more.
Artists who have established a professional practice and are seeking possibilities for further reflection and development can increase their research skills at DAS Choreography.
The individual artistic practice is the point of departure and will be the guiding thread of the course design. This non-residential programme comprised of seminars, residencies and individual mentoring facilitates the development of an intensive and sustained dialogue.
DAS Choreography was previously called Amsterdam Master of Choreography. DAS Choreography was founded in 2002. Before that it was called Dance Unlimited.
The world won't change itself. A statement that applies equally to the realm of the arts. There is a need for producers who are critical thinkers, possess clear views of their own, and who are not afraid to think and work beyond existing structures and disciplines.
That is why the part-time Master degree DAS Creative Producing - Entrepreneurship in the Arts was founded in September 2018. It is the first programme for creative producers in the Netherlands.
The two-year, interdisciplinary MA programme has an international outlook and is aimed at project leaders, producers, business directors, and curators who want to be creative producers and who are professionally active across the arts: in theatre, film, music, digital art, fine art, and dance.
In the course of the Master’s programme students develop their own views on the arts and on society. They study the relationship between art and the community, sustainability, inclusivity, entrepreneurship, interdisciplinary practice, and politics.
The Lectorate* of the Academy of Theatre and Dance, the research department, is based at DAS Graduate School but is open to and represents the whole ATD. It includes research groups in Embodied Knowledge and Creative Producing, as well as the THIRD programme, which supports the development of artistic research in the 3rd cycle.
The Head of the lectorate is the Lector, Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca who joined the ATD in September 2020. She works alongside a core team of staff in the research department. We work with an inclusive concept of research that values research in a wide variety of forms: foregrounding artistic research, practice research and research in education alongside scholarship. We aim to actively work against hierarchies of knowledge and to create space for ways of knowing that have been historically excluded.
We aim to support the development of research throughout the ATD: across Bachelors, Masters, PhD and postdoctoral levels. The lectorate welcomes engagement from all staff, students, tutors/coaches at the ATD, with any level of experience of research: from those who are just beginning to explore themselves as researchers to established researchers.
*The lectorate was previously known as the “DAS Research” department.