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EDUCATION

The HOME OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICES offers the accredited MA Performance Practices with four specialisations:

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  • De-disciplined Performance Practices,

  • Choreography,

  • Performance Art, and

  • Theatre Practices (from 2025-26 tentatively).

 

All our programmes are two-year, high-intensity, low-residency programmes.They are courses for artists with a curiosity for learning, a spirit of experimentation, and an ambition to grow, who are committed to artistic research as a life-long practice in dialogue with peers and audience. Focusing on the students' research, the programmes' post-humanist affinities guide the students to engage practically in their performance making with the notions of care, hospitality of otherness and ecological thinking.

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The HOME's de-disciplined curricula complements the fluid nature of performance by allowing students to study with students from all specialisations and even other departments within ArtEZ Unviersity of the Arts and engage with lecturers, tutors, supervisors and mentors both within and beyond the HOME as suits their individual practices.

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STRUCTURE

Structure

The curriculum is  designed to allow for a thoughtful progression, integration and consistency of those skills needed for an ethically and ecologically geared artistic research within the required competencies and learning objectives that come with our status as a fully accredited Master's Degree.

At the HOME, the four Master's specialisations—De-disciplined Performance, Choreography, Theatre Practices, and Performance Art—share a common foundation through core modules that foster de-disciplined learning and collaboration. These core modules, amounting to 70 EC, are completed during the first year of study and provide all students with a shared grounding in performance research, theory, and practice. In the second year, students focus on their individual specialisations, with an additional 50 EC dedicated to specialised modules tailored to their program’s focus. For students in the De-disciplined Performances, there is the unique opportunity to choose specialisation modules from any of the other programmes, allowing them to craft a pathway that aligns with their specific research interests and practice. The total study load for each programme is 120 EC.

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Group sessions are organised in six residential periods (for the 1st year) and four residential periods (for 2nd year) of three to five weeks spread. All programmes are full-time, and students are expected to work approximately 40 hours a week. In between residential periods, students work autonomously on their own research projects with the support of one-to-one tutorials, online group meetings, and peer feedback.  ​

MODULES & PERIODS

Modules

In 2025-26, the HOME OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICES will offer the following range of modules and Master’s specialisations designed to support diverse approaches to performance, research, and critical thinking. These modules reflect the current expertise of our faculty and the evolving priorities of the field. By default all students enter the MA Performance Practices (De-Disciplined Performance). To graduate with a specialisation other than the default, the student needs to follow strictly the modules of their specialisation, whereas a student of the De-Disciplined Performance can make a choice of which specialisation modules to follow. 

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2025-26

RESIDENTIAL PERIODS

01- 15 Sep- 17 Oct 2025

02- 08 Dec- 19 Dec 2025

03- 19 Jan- 06 Feb 2026

04- 23 Mar- 17 Apr 2026

05- 18 May- 29 May 2026

06- 29 Jun- 10 Jul 2026

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07- 29 Sep- 25 Sep 2026

08- 12 Jan- 23 Jan 2026

09- 30 Mar- 17 Apr 2026

10- 06 Jul- 17 Jul 2026

Year 1

Year 2

Body in Performance

Credits

Leader

15 EC

Dr Pavlos Kountouriotis

Residential Period

01

Description

The module provides a rigorous and in depth contextual and practical examination of different theoretical notions around the politics and ethics of including, (re)presenting, staging and facilitating diverse bodies on stage. By looking at concepts of the body in relation to dramaturgical operations and by practically embodying some of these performances, as a way of thinking practice, we will develop vocabularies of thought around the making and its sociopolitical implications. By examining how normativities and disciplines have been imposed on the Body, the module serves as the srping board for all future investigations at HOME OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICES and helps students build a thinking analytical practice. Lecturers:Dr Pavlos Kountouriotis, Verena Stenke (VestAndPage), Andrea Pagnes (VestAndPage), Dr Anja Foerschner, Anushka Nair

Designing the Body of Practice-as-Research

Credits

Leader

15 EC

Astarti Athanasiadou

Residential Period

04, 06

Description

This module provides students with a range of approaches to artistic research as well as the skills necessary for undertaking it as part of their degree. The module aims to foster the production of artistic source materials, plans, conceptual and technical experimentation and research work which maps the research topic and the formal strategies to be employed along the way. Through the lectures and seminars students will examine and explore the varied and multiple methods involved in researching, proposing and developing a critical artistic production. This will include the politics and ethics of research, examining digital media production through textual analysis, the use of archival and electronic sources and the relationship of discursive theoretical positions to artistic production-based work. Lecturers:Astarti Athanasiadou, Steef Kersbergen, Claudia Brazzale

Dissemination-Documentation

Credits

Leader

5 EC

Dr Anja Foerschner

Residential Period

07

Description

This module provides a theoretical and practical process around the modes, meanings and functions of documentation and dissemination of practice-as-research. In a co-teaching format, various perspectives and approaches are exposed and discussed to help students develop their own standard and practice of documentation and dissemination. This module accompanies the module ‘Dissertation by Practice’, and will guide you to make a portfolio where you expose aspects of your practice-as-research (from ‘Dissertation by Practice’) in a tangible artefact format. From informal documentation as a research tool to more formal documentation as a tool of outreach (and many points between), this module seeks to encourage the practice of documenting as an integrated element of the student’s broader work and culminates with the delivery of a tangible portfolio contextualized by a final group show. Lecturers:Verena Stenke (VestAndPage), Andrea Pagnes (VestAndPage), Dr Anja Foerschner

Dissertation by Practice (Performance Art)

Credits

Leader

30 EC

Astarti Athanasiadou

Residential Period

08, 09, 10

Description

This module sees students engage in self-initiated processes towards the design, development, and delivery a performance art research, culminating in the production towards their Exposition of Artistic Research (EAR) and the written dissemination of their research as thesis. Lecturers:Astarti Athanasiadou, Dr Anja Foerschner, external mentor (student choice)

Bodies in Dissent

Credits

Leader

15 EC

Dr Pavlos Kountouriotis

Residential Period

03

Description

This module examines the socio-political and philosophical underpinnings of performance works that utilize transgression as a mode of challenging normative and subjugating perceptions around the body and subjectivity. These performative acts of transgression are contextualized as methodologies to expose and provoke the dominant ideologies that have cultured and shaped contemporary bodies excluding otherness and creating hierarchical societal rules of subjugation. The students have the opportunity to practically work towards the creation of a collective performance challenging the normative Body and promoting failure and transgression as liberating and highly politicized tools for performance creation. Lecturers:Dr Pavlos Kountouriotis, Verena Stenke (VestAndPage), Andrea Pagnes (VestAndPage), Dr Anja Foerschner, Anushka Nair, Steef Kersbergen

Feedback Frameworks

Credits

Leader

5 EC

Steef Kersbergen

Residential Period

01, 02

Description

This module is designed to explain the components of effective feedback and to provide evidence-based tips on how to give good feedback. It proposes different formats and frameworks for feedback sharing and receiving, and guides students on how to evaluate performances critically and constructively. Students are also supported in their receipt and implementation of feedback in a seamless way that does not hinder their creativity. In this module students engage with different methods and practices of feedback sharing. They learn how to give and receive feedback in efficient ways to enhance their research and weigh developmental forms. Lecturers:Steef Kersbergen, Dr Pavlos Kountouriotis

Dissertation by Practice (De-disciplined)

Credits

Leader

30 EC

Astarti Athanasiadou

Residential Period

08, 09, 10

Description

This module sees students engage in self-initiated processes towards the design, development, and delivery in their chosen area of research, culminating in the production towards their Exposition of Artistic Research (EAR) and the written dissemination of their research as thesis. Lecturers:Astarti Athanasiadou, Dr Anja Foerschner, external mentor (student choice)

Dissertation by Practice (Choreography)

Credits

Leader

30 EC

Astarti Athanasiadou

Residential Period

08, 09, 10

Description

This module sees students engage in self-initiated processes towards the design, development, and delivery a choreography research, culminating in the production towards their Exposition of Artistic Research (EAR) and the written dissemination of their research as thesis. Lecturers:Astarti Athanasiadou, Dr Anja Foerschner, external mentor (student choice)

Dramaturgical Operations

Credits

Leader

10 EC

Dr Pavlos Kountouriotis

Residential Period

01, 02, 04, 05

Description

This module offers students practical explorations of dramaturgical operations and invites them to think how to deliver the outcomes of their own practice-as-research. The module focuses on how an artwork works or does as a method of refining addressivity and employing pertinent modes of communication with their audience. Student will also learn how to distil dramaturgical operations from seminal artworks in their field, to check their applicability in their research and to how to use them effectively in their act of communication. By the end of this module, students will be supported to weave their own combination of the most appropriate dramaturgical operations to disseminate their research findings, whilst encouraging them to articulate and refine their research question and its relevance to their audience. The module emphasizes dramaturgy as an organizational technology, somewhere between art, communication, and management. Lecturers:Dr Pavlos Kountouriotis, Steef Kersbergen, Maria Pisiou

Post-Body Reflection

Credits

Leader

5 EC

Dr Mariella Greil

Residential Period

07

Description

​​​​​​​This module stages the political, ethical, material, and embodied practices of being human by taking the human body as a point of departure to explore possibilities of ‘postness’. Perching on postness, the students will rehearse destabilizing, dismantling, extending, and reformulating the human through multiple imaginations and imaginaries, representations and simulations, discourses and praxes drawing from multiple genealogies and geo-politics of the ‘postbody’. This module is an epistemological exercise that performs a possible future with unstable, uncertain, and redundant bodies through the formulation of a new vocabulary, grammar, syntax – a language – to articulate our engagements and interactions. Students will develop their own language to create a living lexicon of their practice that imagines the world within which it wants to exist. Lecturers:Lucie Strecker

Dissertation by Practice (Theatre Practices)

Credits

Leader

30 EC

Astarti Athanasiadou

Residential Period

08, 09, 10

Description

This module sees students engage in self-initiated processes towards the design, development, and delivery a theatre practices research, culminating in the production towards their Exposition of Artistic Research (EAR) and the written dissemination of their research as thesis. Lecturers:Astarti Athanasiadou, Dr Anja Foerschner, external mentor (student choice)

Choreography Lab 2

Credits

Leader

10 EC

Guest Artist

Residential Period

07

Description

tba Lecturers:Guest Artist

Please note that HOME reserves the right to make changes to the structure, content, dates, and teaching faculty of its programmes. The information provided here is indicative and subject to updates to ensure the programmes remain responsive and relevant.

Faculty & Mentors

FACULTY & MENTORS

Artistic & Pedagogic Leader

Dr Pavlos Kountouriotis 

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Programme Coordinator

Karina van Lenthe​

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Learners' Coordinator

Steef Kersbergen

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Production Manager

Irina Baldini

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Social Media Manager

Kristi-Leigh Gresse

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Lecturers

Andreas Pagnes

Astarti Athanasiadou

Dr Anja Foerschner

Dr Claudia Brazzale

Irina Baldini

Lucie Strecker

Dr Mariella Greil

Maria Pisiou

Dr Pavlos Kountouriotis

Verena Stenke

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Guest Lecturers 

​Jonathan Burrows

Asu Aksu

Juriaan Gregor

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Mentors *

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Alana Jelinek (AU/UK)

Amalia Balaska (GR)

Alessandra Saviotti (IT)
Andrea Bozic (NL/HR)
Andrea Pagnes (IT)
Ant Hampton (UK)
Arianne Portegies (NL)

Ariane Trümper (NL/DE)

Asu Aksu (NL/TR)
Bakani Pick-Up (UK)
Benjamin Verdonck (BE)
Billy Mullaney (US/NL)
Bojana Cvejic (RS/BE)
Bruno Listopad (PT/NL)

Casey Jenkins (US)
Carin Rustema (NL)

Christopher Matthew Hutchins(UK)
Clara Amaral (PT/NL)

Dan Zoroaster Svarc 
Danae Theodoridou (GR)
Danielle Wagenaar (NL)
David Weber-Krebs (BE)

daz disley (UK)
Deniz Buga (NL)
Dominique Gilliot (FR)
Dood Paard (NL)

Douglas Quin (US/FR)

Duncan Chapman (UK)

Egle Budvytyte/ Peleda (LT)

Emma Cocker (UK)

Emilie Gallier (FR/UK)

Elena Cologni (IT)
Erik Hagoort (NL)

Eva Karzcag (NL)

Eve Hopkins (NL)

Fransien van der Putt (NL)

Gabby Allard (NL)

Georgios Tsagdis (GR/UK)

Giulia Casalini(UK)

Halory Goerger (FR)

Henry Alles (NL)

Jacoba Bruneel (UK)

Janez Jansa (SI)

Jeanine Durning (US)
Joachim Robbrecht (NL)
João da Silva (BR)
João Fiadeiro (PT)

Jonathan Burrows (UK)

Joseph Morgan Schofield (UK)

Judith Wambacq (BE)

Julyen Hamilton(UK/GR)

Kat Valastur(GR/BE)

Katie Duck (NL)

Katrina Brown (UK)

Kayla Dougan-Bowtell (UK)

Konstantina Georgelou (GR/NL)

Lara Staal (NL)

Liesbeth Groot-Nibbelink (NL)

Linda Rogers (UK)

Lotte van den Berg (NL)

Louise Coles

Lucy Suggate (UK)

Luiza Cascon (PT)
Marc Boumeester (NL)

Marijn Lems (NL)

Maria Magdalena Kozłowska (NL/PL)

Marilyn Arsem (US)

Mårten Spangberg (SE)

Matteo Fargeon (UK)

Matthias Quabbe

Meg Stuart (US/BE)

 

Michael Laub (BE)

Michael Zandl (AT)

Mirjan van Imschoot (NL)

Nadja Mattioli (DK)

Ness Macaulay

Nienke Terpsma (NL)

Nishant Shah (NL)

Nitsan Margaliot  (DE/IL)

Nuria Guiu (SP)
Paula Walta (NL)

Pedro Manuel (NL/PR)

Pilvi Porkola (FI)
Pieterjan Seynave (BE)
Rainer Hoffman (DE)

Rebecca Lee(US)
Romy Rüegger (CH)

Rosalind Goldberg (NO/SE)

Rosana Cade (UK)
Rudi Laermans (BE)
Sarah van Lamsweerde (NL)

selina bonelli (UK/IT)

Stella Dimitrakopoulou (GR)

Shannon Cooney (DE)

Sol Rezza (AR)

Susanne Weins (DE) 

Suzan Tunca (NL/DE)

Tara Fatehi Irani (UK)

Vanessa Macauley (UK)

Zhana Ivanova (BG/NL)

Zoya Sardashti (US)

 

 

 

 

 

* All those on this list have contributed to HOME's programme in recent years. This list is probably not exhaustive. The people on this list are not all currently associated with HOME.

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