Own work: Plastic Life
Role: Choreographer, Performer Created with: Claire Hermans Premiere: September 2024
In Plastic Life, we explore the duality of this ubiquitous material-artificial yet malleable-utilizing plastic bags as both medium and metaphor. As the audience surrounds a colossal mound of plastic bags, the performance delves into the core of our modern existence, where life intertwines with the presence of this material. Instead of passively succumbing, Plastic Life becomes a ritual of embodiment-an invitation to confront emerging challenges.
Antonin Rioche: Huidhonger
Role: Performer
Huidhonger was originally created for Conny Janssen Danst, Tijmen danced the performance at Tansplatform Bern 2024. Antonin writes about the piece: Oscar Wilde said that we destroy the thing we love the most and it’s often true. Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to and love leaves exactly when love must. I wonder where it is going. This piece speaks about love, its beauty and its cruelty.
Wim Vandekeybus / ITA: Bloedbruiloft
Role: Dancer
Premiere: April 2023
Blood Wedding is directed by the internationally renowned Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus. Blood Wedding is teeming with themes that have cropped up in Vandekeybus his creations for decades: death, risk and freedom. Lorca mixes high theatricality with naivety, primitivism and cruelty. He digs into the unconscious of his characters.
Nicole Beutler: 8 Metamorphosis
Role: Dancer
Premiere: 20/05/2019
International tour: season 21/22
Tijmen started working with Nicole in 2018 as an intern for the production 8:Metamorphosis. This season Tijmen is performing the piece during the national tour.
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Jelena Kostić: Blind Spots, Maastricht
Role: Dancer Premiere: October 2022
In a world where we are surrounded by stimuli, we often shut down our senses. In Blind Spot: Maastricht, choreographer Jelena Kostić makes visible and tangible what is before our eyes. It is a theatrical walk full of contrasts where the urban environment and dance come together to broaden the view of the audience.
Hendrick Aerts: Narrow Spaces
Role: Dancer
Premiere: 28 April 2023
Narrow Spaces is a play that explores the complexities of male love through dance and live music. Experience its unique blend of tenderness, violence, drama, and humor as it takes you on a journey through one of the most profound human emotions.
Tijmen joined the project for a pre-presentation at Noorderzon Festival in Groningen
Jelena Kostic: Losers
Role: Dancer
Premiere: September 2023
YELP_Mariela Nestora: Discretely Distinct
Role: Dancer Premiere: October 2021, Athens, Greece
As a choreographer Mariela Nestora creates performances for the stage, site specific and public space projects as well as for the camera- making works both for YELP danceco. and as an independent artist.
YELP danceco. was founded in London UK by Mariela Nestora and is now based in Athens.
Yourie and Marie: Morning, Mourning
Role: Dancer
Premiere re-stage: Julidans ’22
Morning, Mourning has been the first piece choreographed by Youri and Marie. After having performed it themselves over 120 times, in the Netherlands and abroad, they decided to transmit it to two other dancers, curious how that would influence the piece and its interpretation by the audience.
MaasTD, FRIS: Vind je dat normaal!?
Role: Dancer Premiere: 02-07-2021 Choreography: Lisette van Maanen & Art Srisayam
What is normal? It’s normal for a girl to have pink things and a boy to like blue things. It’s normal that we don’t dress too strangely. That we don’t stand out too much. It is normal that we are on time, eat with cutlery and do not talk too loud. Normally we eat animals, but not dogs or cats. That’s weird.
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Own work: Aluminium birds of paradise
By: Tijmen Teunissen and Alice Gioria Role: Choreographer
“Aluminium birds of paradise” was created for the event 4x4x4 by Lazy Susan & Co. On a journey through an old school building you dive into various universes created by members of Lazy Susan & Co. The ‘’4x4x4’’ evening concludes a month-long creative experiment where 4 members of the collective take on the role of choreographer, each creating a solo on another dancer around an assigned theme.
Plan d- Andreas Denk: BOOM!
Role: Dancer Premiere: 23-08-2021
An ode to nature: resilient, steadfast and sustainable! Boom is an exciting participatory discovery tour through the world of trees. Dance, acrobatics, live music and unexpected encounters take you on a walk full of fantasy and humor.
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Tiuri / Jordy Dik: No-Bodies
Role: Performer
Premiere: 10-09-2021
In the performance No Bodies, eleven dancers and three live musicians, led by choreographer Jordy Dik, search who they want to be and are allowed to be. Alone and together. They confront the unknown and want to make tangible that which normally remains invisible and thus unknown.
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Ischa Statie: Waar Wij Zijn
Production: Lazy Susan & Co. Role: Dancer
Waar Wij Zijn is a location specific pop-up performance that travels through the city. The work plays with the temporality that characterizes the dance.
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Plan d- Andreas Denk: Raak Me
Role: Performer Premiere: 15-03-2021
In Raak me, four different dancers playfully explore their limits. They take a journey into the unknown, where feelings of falling in love can be as fickle as the weather and where a light touch can cause an insoluble knot in no time.
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Own work: An Unintended Dance
Production: Lazy Susan & Co. Role: Choreographer
An Unintended Dance is a movement installation that aims to enlarge the movements we do while standing still. The piece is the outcome of an ongoing artistic research.
You can read more about the piece here ( Dutch).
Nastaran Razawi Khorasani: UNIFORM
Role: Performer Premiere: 15/02/2020
Uniform, by Nastaran Razawi Khorasani, is an ode to the hanger-on. After its succesfull premiere at Oerol Festival, the performance will be on tour this season. Tijmen joined the cast for the reprise at Maas Theater en Dans, Rotterdam.
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Meyer-Chaffaud: SOUL #4
Role: Performer Premiere: 02/10/2020
Choreographers duo Jerome Meyer and Isabelle Chaffaud are in the midst of creating the final piece of their four-part project. Soul #4 is a creation looking into celebration. Tijmen is part of the cast for this performance.
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Cecilia Moisio: Victory
Role: Internship as Understudy Premiere: 02/10/2018
Victory is a physical theatre performance on failure and our fear of it. In Victory Tijmen was an understudy for two roles and had productional tasks during the tour. During the Gala of the Dutch Dance Victory won the price for best youth performance.
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Buro Nieuw Perspectief
By: Rosanne Geerdes and Hans Vermunt Role: Performer
Buro Nieuw Perspectief is a collective by Rosanne Geerdes and Hans Vermunt. Their aim is to create site-specific works inspired by the envoirenment of the performance. They create work in spaces such as theater foyers, beaches, and old factories. Tijmen collaborated multiple times with the collective.
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Oukje den Hollander: We Zijn een Eiland
Role: Performer Premiere: 12/10/2020
As part of her debut album “Ydillen”, Oukje dan Hollander made a videoclip for the song “We zijn een eiland”. Tijmen is dancing in the video.
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Own work: LEX-II
By Catarina Ribeiro and Tijmen Teunissen
Role: Choreographer and performer
A mask does not show what we really are, but what we want to be. It protects and hides a non-created and non-influenced nucleus. LEX-II focuses on breaking apart this nucleus through physical and psychological exhaustion. Looking for an emotional state that will change the spirit of the audience and the dancers themselves. Tijmen is co-creater and dancer in the work.
Own Work: Zang Tumb Tumb
By Tijmen Teunissen Role: Choreographer and Performer
What happens when the world around you becomes a place you do not understand. Sounds fly around you, light flashes everywhere. Only a small creature remains. Zang Tumb Tumb is inspired on the futuristic sound poem by Filipo Marinetti. The solo was created and performed by Tijmen.
ArtEZ Finals 2019
For the ArtEZ finals Tijmen was asked to participate in a short video about my artistic research. The bigger question has always been why we move. In this research Tijmen is looking for a movement without intention: being in movement. He attempts to reach that state by enlarging the ‘small dance’ we do while we stand still. You can learn more about this in the research by clicking the button bellow.
SmoveTalk festival - Cologne
Role: Organisation
SmoveTalk is an international multi-disciplinary festival where emerging artists are featured to show their work. It is a platform for exchanging relevant cultural, political, artistic and social ideas and approaches. Tijmen is part of the organisation and will perform LEX-II at the festival.