choreographers

Pim Veulings did his bachelor's degree in dance at the Amsterdam School of the Arts. He started his career as a dancer with Dutch National Opera & Ballet. He has worked as a dancer for Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Opera Vlaanderen, Stage Entertainment and Welsh National Opera, among others. As choreography assistant to Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, he collaborated with fashion duo Viktor and Rolf and assisted Armando Braswell of Gauthier dance (Stuttgart). Pim has worked as a choreographer for Codarts, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Scapino's Twools Unlimited, theater M-Lab, Dansmakers Amsterdam, Orkater, Via Berlin and Fontys University of the Arts, among others. At Oorkaan he was previously involved as a choreographer in the production The Peanut Butter Prince.

Jochem Stavenuiter is the artistic director of Mimetheatergroep Bambie, the group he founded in 1995 together with Paul van der Laan. From 2014 to 2016 he was an actor associated with the Noord Nederlands Toneel under artistic director Ola Mafaalani. Last season, Bambie played the production with the Eef van Breen Group Bambi is Back. This production, which recently played at Oerol, has been nominated for the Mime Prize 2018. Jochem Stavenuiter previously made the successful productions at Oorkaan The Suleikas and the Mystery of the Sensitive String with Trio Suleika and Mr. Sax's Square with the Ebonit Saxophone Quartet.

Josephine van Rheenen followed the Dance in Education course at the Amsterdam Theater School and immediately after her studies started as a dancer with youth dance company De Dansers. After 5 years on stage with the companies De Dansers, Vloeistof and Breekgoed, she succeeded Wies Merkx as artistic leader of De Dansers in 2014, together with Guy Corneille. Since then she has been making her own work for De Dansers for both children and young people. The Dancers themselves call their dance performances dance concerts: organic gatherings of modern dance and live music. As a choreographer, Josephine searches for humanity in dance and strives for an intuitive dance language that is based on simple instincts. Openness, surrender, interaction are keywords in her work.