Artistic Research

Coaching • Education • Artistic Research

My teaching and mentoring practice is rooted in participatory artistic research, community art and co-creation. I work with students, artists and communities to explore how artistic processes can generate knowledge, foster dialogue and strengthen connections between people and their environments.

Higher Arts Education

ArtEZ University of the Arts (2024–present)

Moving Histories – Leading Learner for second-year students in Fine Art, Dance and Theatre. Three-week community-based artistic research project in collaboration with neighbourhood residents.
Co-Creation in Communities – mentoring Artist Educator in Dance students in participatory artistic processes.
Introduction to Artistic Research – developing artistic interventions from literature, artistic practice and embodied inquiry.
Dancing in Context – inspiration session on designing artistic interventions beyond the traditional dance class.
Common Sync – co-developer and tutor of an eight-week module on collective improvisation and artistic research.

Mentoring & Professional Development

Mentor for Musician 3.0 students (HKU University of the Arts Utrecht) exploring Community Art.
Mentor for interns within Common Stage (Het Wilde Westen, Utrecht).
Guest teacher at Tanzimpulse, Cologne (2004–2014).
Intensive training programme for teachers at Les Tournesols, Luxembourg (2008–2012).

Lecture Performances & Knowledge Sharing

Sharing artistic practice as research is an important part of my work.

Selected presentations include:

ELIA Biennial Conference – Common Stage Lecture Performance (2026)
University of Applied Sciences Saar, Germany (2025)
HAN University of Applied Sciences, Arnhem (2025)
LKCA Symposium on Inclusion & Diversity (2024)
HU University of Applied Sciences / Plan Einstein – Research Meeting on Impact (2024)
Aktion Tanz Symposium Reconnect Participative Dance (Berlin, 2020)

Current Research Interests

My artistic research explores questions such as:

How can artistic practice generate embodied and collective knowledge?
How do communities emerge through participatory artistic processes?
What ethical questions arise in co-creation and community-based art?
How can improvisation function as an artistic research method?
How can artistic interventions create new ways of seeing, relating and imagining together?