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01 / A living practice
Sound · Movement · Encounter
We listen first.
We risk not knowing.
We create in real time.
Sound · Movement · Encounter
Independent voices, one shared encounter.
02 / Connected cities
Many scenes. No single root. One ground.
We see through our own lens.
We give form to the experiment itself.
IMDL Founder — Miri Lee, Younjung Choi
Miri Lee founded IMDL as a meeting ground for improvised music and dance across cities.
Amsterdam
Collectief Imprography + GROND
Meet the practice ↗
Collectief Imprography
Group lead — Miri Lee
An Amsterdam platform of independent artists working in real-time composition, formed in 2018 and led by Miri Lee. Dance, choreography and music meet through the distinct practices of its members.

Independent practices. Shared attention.
Its contribution to IMDL is a space for artists to listen, respond and compose together without erasing their individual approaches. The encounter becomes a place to exchange knowledge through performance and sustained practice.
Members: Miri Lee · Goda Žukauskaitė
GROND
IMDL group lead — Marc Nukoop
GROND is an art space and collective at Nieuwe Bajesdorp in Amsterdam Oost. Collectivity, sustainability, cross-pollination and process-based work guide its shared studios, theatre, garden and canteen.

Sound, movement and collective experimentation.
Marc Nukoop is a sound and movement artist, composer and improviser, and one of the initiators of the GROND Improvisers Group. His work brings music, choreography, objects and multimedia into dialogue. In IMDL he develops encounters through curating and real-time composition.
Ivo Bol contributes live sampling and electronics as a member and collaborator. Workshops, performances and informal gatherings make room for exchange, experimentation and a community that can create together.
Members: Marc Nukoop · Ivo Bol
City founder: Marc Nukoop
At GROND, Marc Nukoop opens space for artists to meet through sound, movement and improvisation.
Spaces for the practice
People & practices

Miri Lee
Imprographer · Dancer · Improviser

Marc Nukoop
Musician, sound artist, dancer and improviser

Maria Mavridou
dancer, performer, maker and teacher · Improviser

Michael Moore
Clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and teacher · Improviser

Goda Žukauskaitė
Performer, dancer and maker · Improviser

Raoul van der Weide
Contrabassist and cellist · Improviser · Cultureel verbinder

Miriam den Boer-Salmón
Violinist · Improviser

Mary Oliver
Violist, violinist, composer and teacher · Improviser

Henk Zwerver
Guitarist · Improviser

Jodi Gilbert
Voice, singer and composer · Improviser

Ivo Bol
Live-sampling artist and synthesist · Improviser
Shared encounters

Splendor, Amsterdam · 17 July 2026
Acclimation

Tempel, Amsterdam · 14 December 2025
Perennation

Splendor, Amsterdam · 15 November 2025
IMDL #3

GROND, Amsterdam · 24 October 2025
IMDL #2

GROND, Amsterdam · 28 June 2025
Pilot: Marsh Marigold
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Utrecht
Studio 3 / Iris van Peppen
Meet the practice ↗
Studio 3
Group lead — Iris van Peppen
At Studio 3 in Utrecht, Iris van Peppen brings somatic movement, emergent composition and performance practice together. Her work as a choreographer, performer and teacher centres embodied attention and the relation between a moving body, other people and its surroundings.

A place to practise, sense and meet.
The light-filled, 110 m² studio at Weg naar Rhijnauwen 3 hosts weekly classes, Sunday sessions and guest workshops. Its programme welcomes different levels of experience, offering a continuing place to develop perception, movement and composition. Iris develops the 2026–27 embodied-practice programme with Diederick van Rijsewijk.
Within IMDL, this approach brings attention to how a performance emerges through listening, sensation and shared time.
Members: Iris van Peppen · Diederick van Rijsewijk · Hugo Ariëns · Pedro Latas
City founder: Iris van Peppen
Through Studio 3, Iris van Peppen brings somatic movement and shared composition into IMDL.
Spaces for the practice
People & practices

Iris van Peppen
Choreographer, performer, teacher and improviser

Hugo Ariëns
Guitarist, improviser and composer

Diederick van Rijsewijk
Movement, poetry and dance · Improviser

Pedro Latas
Composer, multimedia artist, performer and creative coder · Improviser
Shared encounters
Open the full city page ↗
The Hague
iii / WenChin Fu
Meet the practice ↗
iii · Instrument Inventors Initiative
IMDL group lead — WenChin Fu
iii is an artist-run community platform in The Hague linking performance, technology and the human senses. Its shared workspace supports research, making, rehearsals and public encounters, bringing artists with different experiences into contact through common facilities and exchange.

Inventing ways to listen and sense.
WenChin Fu works between performance art, sound and technological invention. Her practice includes the sugar instrument, while her education and curatorial work opens experimental approaches to other participants. In IMDL she connects this inquiry to live encounters between sound, bodies and materials.
The platform supports more than electronic music: instrument building, sensory exploration and interdisciplinary performance create opportunities to learn through making and to share discoveries with audiences.

Activity photograph: Pieter Kers / beeld.nu · Ways of Sensing: Signals in Circulation, iii.
Members: WenChin Fu
City founder: WenChin Fu
Through iii, WenChin Fu connects sound, performance and experimental invention within IMDL.
03 / How we work
Prepare a condition. Enter the room.
01 / Distinct Scenes
Every city carries its own histories, practices, and forms of attention. IMDL begins by listening to what is already there.
02 / Open Score
Each curator brings a distinct artistic lens, creating the conditions for artists from different practices and communities to meet. The score opens a field whose form emerges in real time.
03 / Shared Practice
Real-time composition is the common ground where different artistic languages meet and take form together.
04 / Trace
Every session is filmed, edited, and credited. Each encounter leaves a trace for future artists, curators, and audiences to revisit and carry forward.
04 / Encounters
Holding what disappears.
Real-time creation across dance, music, and light.
All films were filmed and edited by videographer Jongkag Park.
05 / Artists
Distinct practices. Shared weight.
Instruments and bodies meet, giving form to the work.
Portraits
Names
Editions
All
IMDL 05 — Acclimation
IMDL 04 — Perennation
IMDL 03 — Splendor
IMDL 02 — GROND
IMDL 01 — Marsh Marigold

Percussionist · Improviser

Singer, improviser and songwriter

Movement, poetry and dance · Improviser

Dramaturg, critic and visual artist · Improviser

Performer, dancer and maker · Improviser

Guitarist · Improviser

Guitarist, improviser and composer

Choreographer, performer, teacher and improviser

Live-sampling artist and synthesist · Improviser

Dancer, performance artist and Chi Kung instructor · Improviser

Dance artist and educator · Improviser

Voice, singer and composer · Improviser

Dancer and performer · Improviser

Piano and prepared piano · Improviser

Musician, sound artist, dancer and improviser

dancer, performer, maker and teacher · Improviser

Choreographer, performer, educator and researcher · Improviser

Violist, violinist, composer and teacher · Improviser

Clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and teacher · Improviser

Imprographer · Dancer · Improviser

Violinist · Improviser

Composer, multimedia artist, performer and creative coder · Improviser

Contrabassist and cellist · Improviser · Cultureel verbinder

Visual artist and performer · Improviser

Voice, singer · Improviser

Choreographer, improviser and educator

sound and performance artist · Improviser
06 / An open invitation
From here, further.
IMDL began in three Dutch cities.
The next step is beyond the Netherlands: local curators, shared practice, open invitations.
For performance proposals, curatorial exchange and connections with venues or artist-led communities, get in touch.













