New makers, new ideas, new adventures.

New Adventures is a programme by ICK Dans Amsterdam for new dance makers who want to deepen their creative practice. Every year, a number of makers are selected who can work on their artistic development for four weeks in complete freedom and safety. They receive artistic, production and financial support. During the residencies, the makers get to know each other better by sharing their vision and working methods. This results in a fruitful artistic cross-pollination between the makers. At the end of the residency, the results are shown in a double bill and the audience gets the chance to enter into dialogue with the makers.

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Constantin Trommlitz
- Silver Lining

During the New Adventures residency in April 2024, Constantin aims to deepen into the expression of chronic pain through movement. He is interested in how addressing it openly in dialogue with a group of dancers can lead to a process of healing, and how our own sensations of pain can provide inspiration and urgency to be transformed into movement. At the same time, the residency allows Constantin to apply his own movement language deriving from Breaking to a group of dancers with different backgrounds, and to research how merging it with a contemporary influence can make space for emotions and stories. 
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Thais di Marco & Diego Oliveira
- Swarming

During their New Adventures residency in April 2024, Thais and Diego will explore the military tactic called swarming. Swarming is a term used in contemporary warfare to describe military strategies of groups confronting opponents that hold a much bigger disproportionate force. Swarming is the tactic of motion inside of homes, and ultimately, inside of bodies to confront geopolitical power that intrudes from the sky through the sealing. Thais and Diego will study swarming as a movement principle, with the end goal of a swarming dance for those who will live through moving in front of enemies they can't defeat. The research is part of multiple actions reclaiming art works that were translated into military tactics by military intelligence departments.