CREATED WORK IRIS VAN PEPPEN I CO

  • 2022
  • That moment silence was so loud – research performance – Festival Boulevard / Theater Kikker X Het Huis Utrecht
  • Landscaping Landscapes research project – installation with Rosa van Walbeek, Marc Nukoop, Fransien van der Putt, Hugo Ariëns, Ellen Knops, Kim Hoogterp
  • 2020
  • Boiler room sessions – Live stream performances
  • Fragments of sky – premiere November 27 & 28 Theater Kikker
    2019
  • Preview Fragments of sky – Theater Kikker
  • Theater Kikker, Delft Fringe Festival, SSBU Uitfeest Utrecht
    2018 – 2017
  • Pulse#1
    Amsterdam (NL), Theater a/d Rijn Arnhem, Monsteren Theater Kikker, Route du Nord Rotterdam Roef Rooftopfestival Amsterdam
  • Nucleus
    Stukafest Delft, Sencity Tivoli/Vredenburg Utrecht
    2016
  • INSTINCT film
    Cindedans shorts Amsterdam, Triskelian Arts Brooklyn, Jumping Frames Hong Kong, Moving Images Nicosia
, Sinema Danse Ankara, Breaking8 Italy.

PERFORMER

2024 Amsterdam Fringe Festival, Pice by Lux Sauer ‘Becoming Tiger’
2016 WING Platform Hong Kong
2014 Cultivate Festival USA
2006/2007 EX NIHILO: Festival a/d Werf, France
2004 – present: NL numerous occasions f.e. Tivoli/Vredenburg, Bimhuis, LKCA, OT301

IRIS VAN PEPPEN I CO

Company founded in 2017.
Committed dancers/performers/musicians are Makiko Ito, Kim Hoogterp, Aida Guirro Salinas, Andrea Pisano, Bryan Atmopawiro, Rosa van Walbeek, Hugo Ariëns, Marc Nukoop. Lightdesigner Ellen Knops. Dramaturge Fransien van der Putt. Musical adviser Michael de Roo.

Boardmembers Dr. Joao da Silva, Brett Bannink, Felipe Salve.

WORKED WITH

Katie Duck, Michael Schumacher, Tim O’Donnell, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Kenzo Kusuda, Jasper Dzuki Jelen, Jessica van Rueschen, Johanna Lemke, Paolo Fossa, Inken Landskroner, Andrew L. Harwood, Vincent Cacialano.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

  • 2022 – 2023
  • Ontwikkeltraject with Fransien van der Putt ‘ to create better conditions for experimental dance work in the Netherlands’
  • 2019
  • article published about my artistic approach in ‘Currents’ Magazine by BMCAssociation, written by Vincent Cacialano named ‘ Felt Knowing’
  • commission member Ons Fonds
  • 2018
  • ELAP founded with Marisa Grande: Embodied Life Art Program
  • interview published in Dans Magazine written by Fransien van der Putt
  • 2017
  • BMC  Endocrine system SOMA France 2015
  • 2015
  • Founded dance studio – Studio 3, Weg naar Rhijnauwen 3 Utrecht
  • 2013 – present
  • Curator performances
  • 2001
  • Panel debate ‘women and modern dance’ organized by Korzo
  • 1999
  • Graduated SNDO Amsterdam
  • 1997/1999
  • School board SNDO and deputy SNDO for board dance faculties theaterschool Amsterdam

CREATED WORK WITH NON+PROFESSIONAL DANCERS

  • 2015
  • Time in our Spine
  • Utrecht Down Under in former prison
  • 2014
  • Traces/Layers 
  • Cultivate Festival USA
  • Traces
  • Buro Curious/FMO Amsterdam, Nightwalkers/Expodium Utrecht
  • 2005 – 2016
  • over 30 site specific performances such as:
  • Forza (Fort Rhijnauwen), Ten alle tijden (Starwatch museum), Breaking Bricks (Stadhuisplein Utrecht), Golfslag, Ontplofte blik (Centraal Museum)
  • 2001 – 2014
  • Stranddans (tour Dutch coastline)
  • False Step (Montreal Canada)
  • Noise ’n Stuff Dansateliers Rotterdam, Muiderpoorttheater Amsterdam

TEACHING

Somatic Movement, Improvisation, Instant Composition, Release techniek, Coaching

  • 2022 – present
  • Guest teacher and coach at Fontys Bachelor Dance education, Codarts Incubator, Codarts Master Choreography
  • 2019 – present
  • Guest teacher HKU, Music & Technology ‘ Composition for dance) with Katerina Pejoska
  • 2019 – 2022
  • 
position Conservatory Utrecht, Musician 3.0 HKU. Introduced MESI (Musical Embodiment through Somatics and Improvisation) at the department and since 2019 this is a new subject in their curriculum

  • Guest lecturer University Utrecht Media at invitation of Maaike Bleeker & Yotam Shibolot within the series ‘Thinking Body’ on Embodiment applied within an artistic practice’
  • Masterclass HKU Fashion & Design
  • 2018
  • UNFREEZE Festival Berlin at the invitation of Contemporary Ice Skating
  • 2017
  • Tehran Iran at the invitation of Sara Behrad and Farhad Foroutanian (Dries Verhoeven)
  • 2016 – 2019
  • guest teacher Conservatorium Utrecht, Musician 3.0 HKU
  • 2016
  • CCDC Hong Kong
  • 2015
  • Instant Pudding! Paris
  • 2014
  • 100Grandstudio NYC & Cultivate Festival USA
  • 2005 – present
  • Contemporary Dance Platform Utrecht
  • 2001 – 2017
  • Holland Dance Festival, Cultural institutions, International Schools, University Utrecht, Vrije Hogeschool.