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UM~A
                              booklet DAS chorehography Master Program
2026




is a process developed within the frame of DAS ARTS - master program in Amsterdam - 2024-2026 
The project spreads from Social Gathering ongoing process - like the Open Rehearsal - as the installation in the facilites of DAS building, a video installation - and a performance in public space with sensors and approaching a universe of rubber production between the city of Amsterdam and florests - the labor and the soul of the humans and the more than human 

two events
two installation 
a process of thousands participations
a cho co co co reograhy of co creations


During Master Presentation - April 2026 - the Open Rehearsal- a gathering which has happening since February in Amsterdam had it’s eruption at the Master Presentation event 
bringing a great number of people to gather in movement and sonic improvisations - A ritual of togetherness 
an Ecology of Senses to awaken the possibility of walking  in hands that connects 
a ritual to call the spirits of regeneration 

text by Anajara Laisa Amarante



UM~A performance filmed at DAS Choreography (21 april)

performers open rehearsal, social gathering
Alla Kravchenko
nisha ha
Kim Baraka
tis aly
and guests

voice advisors
Anthony Heildweiler
Maria Magdalena Kozłowska

musicians
Hiske Hupperets
Vin
Clara Grimes
Ivan Seller



Urban Poetics-
The research around rubber come as a situated performance connecting the city and the forests 






UM~A is a tranversal project with medias that tell stories crossing paths between ancestrality and futurity  a tribute to the living ancestors 
installation at DAS building 

 
video installations at DAS building - 




UM~A | installation
credits video
Diana Gilardenghi
Estranho
Lu Afonso
Lui Perfumera
Heloisa Guetti Silva
Manoela Guetti Silva
Sarah Pusch
editing - camera
Marc Philipp Gabriel


Kindly supported by Aart Janszen Fund



studio showing at DAS_ September 2026





collaborators in the research
Mavi Veloso
Frederico Raposo
Lyon

atopic artistic support
Sheila Ribeiro

credits research
Pedra Costa - mentor 1st year
Dwayne Toemere, mentor 2nd year
Dr. da Borracha - Brazil - environmentalist - small family business in Acre
Aldeia Varinawa - Brazil - and everyone who hosted one during the journey and research in Brazil
to all the intangible matters that have contributed to this research