GUESTS

PHOTOGRAPHER MEREL SEVERS
Performing Artist
Çiğdem Polat
pronoun: She/Her
age: 31
city: Zaandam
short bio:
Çiğdem Polat's work borders on dance and physical theatre. She touches themes that are taboo breaking. She has a unique movement quality inspired by sign language, the animalistic nature and the subconscious body. In her performances she shows deeply layered landscapes of her innerworld where she invites the viewer to behold the courage of vulnerability and to embrace the force of raw transparancy. She graduated at the Urban Contemporary Dance department of the Academy of the Arts in Amsterdam. She worked with Jan Fabre in the production Belgian Rules/ Belgium Rules where she explored the honesty of exhaustion. She is currently working with Jakop Ahlbom Company in the production SYZYGY.
motto/quote:
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious”
- Carl Jung -

PHOTOGRAPHER
Performing Artist
Melisa Diktas
pronoun: She/Her
age:
city: Haarlem
short bio:
Melisa Diktas is a dancer of Turkish-Indonesian descent. She is educated at the Lucia Marthas dance academy, where she graduates in 2016. She performs at major shows on TV and at concerts, such as The Voice of Holland, Trijntje Oosterhuis and the Toppers in Concert. In the theater she can be seen in the performance From Routes II Crown (RIGHTABOUTNOW) and in the special performance Night of the Dead during Theater na De Dam: a program by DOX, Theater Utrecht and Stadsschouwburg Utrecht. She can be seen in the performance Samsara by choreographer Cheroney Pelupessy, which will also be at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival in 2019. At NPO3 she plays the role of Esra in the SKAM NL series. She also teaches at the Lucia Marthas dance academy and at various dance schools.
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