Stichting Ammodo, For arts, architecture and science

Quality musical instruments are indispensable for the internationally celebrated sound of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

By contributing to the purchase of string instruments, Ammodo helps the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to keep performing at the highest level.

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Pictured: Label in a double bass built by Vincenzo Corain in 1848 which was purchased by the Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2021.

With BIMHUIS Productions, BIMHUIS contributes to a vibrant jazz scene by developing new work and supporting talented musicians and composers.

Part of this initiative is Reflex, a programme in which BIMHUIS acts as a (co-)producer of large-scale (inter)national productions. Musicians and creators are invited to reflect on global and societal developments through their work. This has resulted in new musical pieces by trumpeter Alistair Payne, guitarist Reinier Baas, singer Sanem Kalfa and others.

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Pictured: Nicolò Ricci (Reflex 2024)

The 60th edition of the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia takes place from 20 April until 24 November 2024. This year’s curator of the exhibition is Adriano Pedrosa from Brazil.

Ammodo supports the performance programme that forms part of the main exhibition Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere. Eight internationally renowned artists will develop a performance piece for the Biennale: Ahmed Umar, Antonio Jose Guzman & Iva Jankovic, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Güneş Terkol, Isaac Chong Wai, Joshua Serafin, Lydia Ourahmane and Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo).

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Ammodo contributes to two new operas by composer Michel van der Aa.

In 2023, Ammodo Docs released the short documentary In Between Realities about the work of Michel van der Aa.

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Pictured: Upload, Michel van der Aa, 2020

Toneelschuur Productions has selected five young directors to create several new theatre productions in the coming years. These are Abdel Daoudi, Jessie L’Herminez, Koen Verheijden, Angelo Ormskerk and Agnese Kumpina.

Each season, at least four new plays will see their premiere. In addition, Toneelschuur Productions has reserved space for ad hoc productions by guest directors.

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Pictured: Dieven, Jessie L’Herminez, 2023

The Opera Forward Festival (OFF) is an annual festival for new contemporary opera productions. The festival presents opera as a relevant and forward-thinking artform to a wide audience.

Click here to read our interview from 2018 with Pierre Audi, former director of the Dutch National Opera.

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Pictured: Animal Farm by Alexander Raskatov at Opera Forward Festival 2023.

Ammodo supports the creation of the new production The Balancing Act by choreographer Ann Van den Broek, in which she explores the relationship between the interests of the individual versus the community.

The performance is set to premiere in October 2023.

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Julidans is an international contemporary dance festival taking place in ITA every July. The festival presents dance performances by established and upcoming filmmakers.

Since 2017, it also co-produces new works by mid-career choreographers with the aim of contributing to the evolution of dance and strengthening international collaboration.

In 2025, Oona Doherty and the choreographic duo David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen (Out Innerspace) will create new work.

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With BIMHUIS Productions, BIMHUIS contributes to a vibrant jazz scene by developing new work and supporting talented musicians and composers.

Each year, BIMHUIS commissions a composition from an internationally renowned composer – in the past, this has included Kaja Draksler (2023) and Martin Fondse (2022).

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Pictured: Kaja Draksler and band (BIMHUIS composition assignment 2023)

Sancta is a large-scale international co-production and the first major opera directed by Austrian choreographer and performance artist Florentina Holzinger.

The opera, based on Paul Hindemith’s one-act Sancta Susanna (1922), investigates the relationship between music and the sacred. It draws inspiration from religious practices and will take the form of a service dedicated to themes such as salvation, purification and martyrdom in the 21st century.

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Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, led by Pierre Audi since 2019, is the largest opera festival in France. The festival presents new recitals of existing works as well as new contemporary (opera) productions.

Ammodo supports the development of two new operas per year for the 2025, 2026 and 2027 festival editions.

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Pictured: The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Ted Huffman and Philipp Venables, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2023

As in previous years, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ will (co-)produce three new compositions in contemporary music annually between 2024 and 2027. Dutch and international composers will get the chance to develop their practice and present their own contribution to the canon of contemporary music.

All pieces will celebrate their world premiere at Muziekgebouw. The performances are realised in cooperation with Dutch and international partners including Asko|Schönberg, Cappella Amsterdam, Klangforum Wien and Collegium Vocale Gent.

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Every other year in the summer, The Dutch National Opera & Ballet organizes the Choreographic Academy: a period of three weeks in which young talented choreographers collaborate with the dancers of the Junior Company.

The Choreographic Academy aims to be a place for research and experiment. A final result in the form of a finished choreography is not a requirement, but it happens regularly.

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Pictured: New Moves, 2022 (Photo: Khayla Fitzpatrick)

Ammodo supports the creation of three new productions by choreographer Arno Schuitemaker: Remembering the Future (2023), The Day Before (2024) and Correspondences (2025).

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Pictured: O S C A R, Arno Schuitemaker, 2021 (Photo: Bart Grietens)

Each year, Nederlands Dans Theater invites internationally renowned choreographers to create new work with NDT’s dancers. In the past, this has included artists such as Tao Ye, Marne and Imre van Opstal, Christos Papadopoulos, Simon McBurney, and Crystal Pite.

By collaborating with guest choreographers, NDT positions itself as a creative production house. Dancers are involved in the creation process, productions become more varied in dance language and themes, and there is more room for experimentation and innovation.

In the coming seasons, choreographers such as Marcos Morau, Jiří Kylián, and Botis Seva will create new pieces.

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Pictured: Ties Unseen, Christos Papadopoulos, 2024

Alida Dors is choreographer, theater director and artistic director of Theater Rotterdam. Her new production (Sur)render is an interdisciplinary performance combining dance, video, poetry, spoken word and live music about humanity’s disturbed relation to nature and to each other. (Sur)render premiers at Theater Rotterdam in 2025 and will tour throughout the Netherlands.

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Three times left is right is a theater production by interdisciplinary artist Julian Hetzel about living together in times of radical political ideologies.

With this performance Julian Hetzel continues a long-running investigation into emotions – in this case, hate as a driving force for right-wing radicalism, and love as a survival strategy in times of war.

The play will premiere in 2025 at the Wiener Festwochen and will subsequently be shown in Leipzig and Utrecht (SPRING festival).

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The artist duo Suzan Boogaerdt and Bianca van der Schoot combines performance and (video) installations. They call their field of operations the ‘grey space’: the zone between the black box (theatre) and the white cube (museum).

This approach is evident in their New Body Project, which they will present in 2024 – a diptych about mourning lost bodies and embodying a new world.

The first part, called WOMBTOMBS, is presented at MU Hybrid Art House in Eindhoven in spring of 2024. It consists of a series of hiding places that are both memorial sites and incubators. These spaces can be visited by the public and will host performances at certain times.

The second part, SONGOFSONGS, takes the form of a multimedia performance which will tour across the Netherlands in the fall of 2024. Here, new forms of existence are presented which were developed in the WOMBTOMBS, merging human, technological and digital ‘bodies’.

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Photo: Annaleen Louwes

The Ruhrtriennale is a renowned annual performing-arts festival in the German Ruhr area. A new artistic leader is appointed every three years. From 2024 to 2026, the festival is led by former ITA director Ivo van Hove. During this period, Ammodo supports several new (co-)productions each year which will premiere at the Ruhrtriennale and are created in cooperation with international partners, including ITA.

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The Junior Company of the Dutch National Ballet is a talent development programme for young dancers. Since its establishment in 2013, it has garnered a reputation for fostering promising new talents.

Every season, the Junior Company tours the nation with its own programme of repertoire choreographies as well as new creations. Many former participants have gone on to be selected for the Dutch National Ballet.

From season 2023/2024 onwards, the Junior Company expands its activities with the production of a new performance at Studio Broekman. Sedrig Verwoert is the first choreographer to be selected for this commission piece.

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Afgebeeld: In the Future, Hans van Manen, Shooting Stars tour 2022 (Photo: Altin Kaftira)

Festival d’Avignon is an annual theatre festival for new French and international productions. In editions 2023 and 2024, Ammodo supports the creation of two new (co-)productions per year.

In 2023, these are Welfare by Julie Deliquet and Antigone in the Amazon by Milo Rau. In 2024, they will be Mothers – A Song For The Wartime by Marta Górnicka and second production (to be determined).

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