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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.

Natural — Concertgebouw Amsterdam
Our most recent House of Makers performance, Natural, premiered in the main hall of the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

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.

2022–2023 — 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