Overhoeksplein 2
1031 KS Amsterdam
The Netherlands
DAS Theatre is a full-time, two-year residential Master of Art programme for research-based artistic and curatorial practices in the field of theatre. It develops in the form of a creative laboratory for international professionals in the performing arts. As a postgraduate school, DAS Theatre focuses on knowledge generation rather than knowledge transmission. While reinforcing the connections between arts education, research and production, DAS Theatre’s core values revolve around making space for art, including forms that we do not know yet.
Early-bird applications assistance & final deadline
We understand that studying at DAS Theatre requires a huge commitment. We’d like to help you preparing your application.
Early-bird applicants can take the advantage of our advising service. If you send your application before the pre-deadline of October 10, 2019, you will receive feedback and advise on how to improve your application.
You can find our application form online on our website.
The final deadline for submitting your application form is due by the November 14, 2019.
About DAS Theatre
How can we as artists, curators, thinkers and educators engage imaginatively with the philosophical, social and political issues that confront us? How can art formulate hypotheses about our present and future entanglements? By providing conditions for research and work, DAS Theatre supports artists and curators in their attempt to re-think, or to even radically re-imagine forms, aesthetics, practices and ethics, thereby widening the understanding of what theatre is, and envisioning the theatre(s) of the future.
Here, individual trajectories benefit from a community of peers, tutors and advisors, and a broad international network. Participants engage critically with artistic and curatorial practices that may be radically different from their own, which serves the purpose of feeding their work and to reinforcing their artistic position. International guests fuel a permeable curriculum, while thematic blocks bring intensive educational programmes around relevant topics for the theatre field.
DAS Theatre embraces the wide range of practices covered by the term theatre. The programme pursues an active practice of different aesthetics, tools, dramaturgical approaches and genres. The programme welcomes artists (directors, performance makers, performers, dramaturgs…) and curators who seek to expand their fields.
Ask your questions
You are warmly invited to join us at one of our public events during the course of the year to experience what studying at DAS Graduate School could mean for you. At these events there is an opportunity to speak with our current students, alumni and staff.
Otherwise you have any questions from the general practicalities to the more specific ones regarding the curriculum and study programme, we’ll be happy to answer them.
Please, send an email to dastheatre [at] ahk.nl or contact John Meijerink: john.meijerink [at] ahk.nl / T +31 (0)205277668
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About DAS Graduate School
DAS Graduate School was established in 2016 by the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK) inside the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance (ATD) in order to bring its master’s, doctorate and research programmes together under one roof. DAS Theatre, DAS Choreography, DAS Creative Producing and DAS Research, have joined forces together in order to invest in the further development of education and research in Amsterdam as much as on a broader international horizon. The school is based as an open and porous centre for gatherings and encounters between the arts, science, education and society.
Contact
T +31 (0)205277666 / dastheatre [at] ahk.nl
