2026/2027 - Resources - Sharing is caring
House of Makers is making a resources available via our website. We believe shared learning is a beautiful and effective way to develop everyones’ creativity. We hope to inspire people to practice ‘serious-play’; let’s bring joy, practice communication, and be creative problem solvers.
2026 · In development: Tracy’s Tiger
We’ve started dreaming about our next performance, Tracy’s Tiger, inspired by William Saroyan’s book with the same name. It’s a story about what we carry inside that others can’t see, and about what happens when we imagine something together: making the invisible visible.
We’re making it as a devised piece, building the performance in the rehearsal room through writing, movement and music. Tracy’s Tiger is made by Peter Leung (direction and choreography), Brigitte van Hagen (assistant direction and process), Nuno Lobo (composition), Amanda Payne (writing and performance), Yannick Verweij (scenography) and Natálie Kulina (creative production), together with a group of musicians and performers.
Alongside the performance, we’ll give workshops for young people at OBA and Synestheet, inspired by the way we make the piece. Peter and Nuno also teach collaborative practice together on the New Audiences and Innovative Practice master’s at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. Exercises from the process will appear on our Resources page as we go.
We’ll share dates and locations soon!
2024 — Circe featured in Cinedans FEST's Dutch Archive Program
Our short dance film Circe, made with filmmaker Bowie Verschuuren, was featured in the Dutch Archive Program at Cinedans FEST, a curated conversation and screening series bringing together Dutch dance filmmakers to discuss the craft and collaboration behind the genre. Peter Leung and Bowie Verschuuren joined fellow filmmakers to share their experience making the film, part of Cinedans' broader effort to build an archive of Dutch dance film.
2023 — Kinetic Sounds, De Doelen, Rotterdam
House of Makers directed Kinetic Sounds, a collaboration with DoelenEnsemble and Rotterdam sound-art studio Klankvorm, at De Doelen's Jurriaanse Zaal. The programme brought live musicians into dialogue with Klankvorm's mechanical sound installation, featuring new commissions exploring the relationship between human performance and machine-generated sound. Directed by Peter Leung, Brigitte van Hagen, and Adriana Rio.
2022 — Natural — Concertgebouw Amsterdam
House of Makers created Natural as the opening performance for Amsterdam UMC’s 28th Anatomische Les at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, with music by Merlijn Twaalfhoven and direction by Brigitte van Hagen. The performance combined live music and video in response to the lecture’s exploration of sex differences in health and disease, delivered by biologist Prof. David Page.
2022–2023 — From the Sun's Perspective on tour
After its Grachtenfestival premiere, From the Sun's Perspective continued to festivals and venues across the Netherlands, including November Music (Den Bosch) and September Me (Amersfoort).
2021 — Narcissus & Echo tours the Netherlands
Our VR dance collaboration with Veejays.com toured extensively, including Felix Meritis, Paradiso, Q-Factory, Festival der Aa, and the Wilmink Theater in Enschede.
2020 — Within Time restaged across multiple locations
Within Time, made in co-production with Het Grachtenfestival, was rebooked and restaged at venues across the Netherlands following its premiere.
"A beautiful performance by young people about the present time."
— Joanna Fox, Dansmagazine, August 2020
Theaterkrant, reviewing the premiere: Margriet Prinssen's review describes the staging built from Monteverdi's Lamento della Ninfa, the bass guitar accompaniment ("an unconventional choice"), and the elastic threads that gradually form a web across the floor as the performers move.
2014 — happyokay, Brooklyn
Made with dancers from New York City Ballet and video collective Last Hour.
"Ontzagwekkend." ("Awesome.")
— Dance Spirit