Home Of Performance Practices

SAVE THE DATE | April 14–17

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming Exhibitions of Artistic Research (EARs) by our second-year Master’s students.

Over the past two years, these artistic researchers have dedicated themselves to deep investigation, challenging the boundaries of their fields through rigorous practice-as-research. From April 14th to 17th, they will open their processes and present their final findings in a series of exciting and transformative works.

More details on the full program and locations coming soon.

Exhibitions of Artistic Research
April 14 – 17
HOME OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICES, ArtEZ

Image: Performance by Dora Pocedic (student 2024-2026), image by Steef Kersbergen

Reflecting on the transformative works from our first-year students during the Politically Engaged Performance Making module. The students were challenged to treat their work as a political gesture, resulting in an incredible range of diverse research:
Between mourning rituals and minimal gestures. Personal storytelling through play. The policing of identity and the reclamation of the in-between.

Thank you to all the students for sharing your work so bravely. And thank you to for guiding our students in this process.

🌟 JOIN THE PROGRAMME: The Open Call for new students is now live. Applications close March 27th. Visit the link in our bio for details.

Images: Performances by Maja Franke, Sunay Baykal, Wiktoria Kolcon and Panagiotis Michail Tsakiris (students 2025-2027) produced by HOME OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICES, photo's by Steef Kersbergen.

Join the HOME Online Orientation Session!

👉 Time & Location: December 10, 16.00-17.30 CET on Teams

The HOME OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICES of ArtEZ University of the Arts welcomes prospective applicants who wish to know more about our programme, people, and places, to meet us online and get acquainted with how we support individual artistic development and research trajectories.

Discover our curriculum, ethics and exciting opportunities that the programme offers. Get practical information about accommodation, facilities, and our educational vision.

In this online session our head of learners’ coordinator, Steef Kersbergen, will introduce you to our vision on education and artistic research surrounding performance practices. They will present the ethics that form the foundation of our programme and our approach to supporting each student in their individual artistic research trajectory. You will also have the opportunity to meet some current students and ask them all about the student experience of the HOME OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICES.

Interested? Please sign up for the session via link in bio or send us an email at [email protected]. Steef will send you a Teams link to join the session.

Performance by Magali Sander Fett (student 2024-2026), produced by HOME OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICES. Photo by Steef Kersbergen

#2025 #2026

FINAL OPEN CALL of the year — only few spots left!
EU applicants only
Applications are now open for artist-researchers to join the MA Performance Practices, at ArtEZ University of the Arts.
📅 Start: September 2025
🗓 Application deadline: 6 June 2025
🎭 Auditions: 17, 18, 19 June 2025
(The audition will be online, and consists of multiple workshops spread over three days. Full availability for all days required.)
This call is for EU-resident artists working in expanded choreography, performance art, experimental dance, theatre, or visual art, ready to explore practice-as-research in depth.
If you're curious, experimental, and committed to lifelong learning — this is your space.
Welcome to the HOME OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICES.
📲 Apply now + learn more: www.performancepractices.nl


Performance: Thaís Dos Santos Silva (Student 2023-2025) | Image: Steef Kersbergen for Home of Performance Practices

HOME | PERFORMANCEPRACTICES The HOME OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICES is an incubator for artistic research around the Body in Performance and its wider Ecology. Within its setting of de-disciplined and diverse thinking, the HOME promotes performance-making as a strategy for equitable societies. At the core of the HOME are the accr...