A shared score of changing voices: small points grow into wave centres, and earlier centres become small again. A silent pen drawing.




IMDL

IMDL

IMDL

IMDL

Improvised Music
Dance Laboratory

Improvised Music
Dance Laboratory

Across cities.
In real time.

We read the room.
Then move.

We read the room.
Then move.

We read the room.
Then move.

On screen / 01–05

One shared pulse.

30 seconds · Silent montage

Pause motion Ⅱ

Play motion ▷

We read the room.
Then move.

On screen / 01–05

One shared pulse.

30 seconds · Silent montage

Amsterdam · Utrecht · The Hague

Amsterdam · Utrecht · The Hague

Amsterdam · Utrecht · The Hague

Five encounters. An open future.

Five encounters. An open future.

Photo: Roman Zotter · Jongkag Park

Photo: Roman Zotter · Jongkag Park

Photo: Roman Zotter · Jongkag Park

01 / A living practice

Sound · Movement · Encounter

We do not build
one house.
We build doors
between communities.

We do not build
one house.
We build doors
between communities.

We do not build
one house.
We build doors
between communities.

We do not build
one house.
We build doors
between communities.

A laboratory for real-time creation across cities, disciplines, and borders

A laboratory for real-time creation across cities, disciplines, and borders

A laboratory for real-time creation across cities, disciplines, and borders

We listen first.
We risk not knowing.
We create in real time.

Next / UpcomingSound · Movement · Encounter

Sound · Movement · Encounter

Independent voices, one shared encounter.
Independent phrases. Shared time.
IMDL Confluence main poster — circle on the right. 5 December 2026, Zaal 100, Amsterdam.

IMDL 2026 Finale: Confluence

IMDL 2026 Finale: Confluence

Saturday, 5 December 2026 · Zaal 100, Amsterdam

An afternoon and evening of improvised music, dance and performance at Zaal 100.

Open the next encounter ↗

Saturday, 5 December 2026
Zaal 100, Amsterdam
14:00 Doors open
14:30–21:00 Eight Performances
All-access ticket €10 + optional donation

Confluence brings together artists from different generations, disciplines and improvisation communities across the Netherlands.

Seven invited artists each curate a 30-minute set, bringing their own collaborators and artistic approaches into the programme. Moving between the Grote Zaal and Kleine Zaal, audiences encounter a series of distinct performances, from intimate musical exchanges to larger encounters between movement and sound.

The evening closes with a collective improvisation, bringing artists from the different sets together in one shared space.

Organised by IMDL (Improvised Music Dance Laboratory), an artist-led platform connecting independent performers across cities and disciplines, Confluence celebrates both the individuality of each artist and the unexpected relationships that emerge when they meet.

Come for one set, stay for several, or spend the whole afternoon and evening with us.

Artists / curators SET 01 — 14:30 — Somascope ~ the inter/cellular poetry punks — Curated by Iris van Peppen & Diederick van Rijsewijk — Iris van Peppen (dance, voice), Diederick van Rijsewijk (movement, poetry), Suzan Stouthart, Hugo Ariëns (electric guitar), Lucas Kloosterboer (electronics) · SET 02 — 15:00 — Het lakschoentje van Pieternel — Curated by Raoul van der Weide — Makiko (dance), Nora Mulder (piano), Vera Morais (voice), Raoul van der Weide (cello) · SET 03 — 15:50 — Curated by WenChin Fu — WenChin Fu (cello), additional artists TBC · SET 04 — 16:40 — Curated by Sjors van der Mark — Sjors van der Mark (electric guitar), Jasna Veličković (electronics), Letizia Amadei (dance) · SET 05 — 17:10 — Tightrope — Curated by Maria Mavridou — Maria Mavridou (dance), Miriam den Boer (violin) · SET 06 — 19:00 — Liminal Space — Curated by Vincent Verburg — Andrea Denk (dance), Vincent Verburg (dance), Olena Ananieva (dance), Pablo Alanes (electronics) · SET 07 — 19:40 — IYJI — Curated by Ivo Bol — Ivo Bol (synths, tapes), Yukari Uekawa (saxophone), Jodi Gilbert (voice), Iakovos Pavlopoulos (drums) · SET 08 — 20:20 — Collective Finale — Participating artists TBC

Film shown: IMDL 05 — Acclimation, from the archive.

IMDL Confluence final poster — horizontal inflow 01, circle on the left. Saturday, 5 December 2026.
Two dancers reach toward one another with a live musician behind them at IMDL, GROND.

Archive photographs: Roman Zotter

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IMDL Confluence main poster — circle on the right. 5 December 2026, Zaal 100, Amsterdam.

IMDL 2026 Finale: Confluence

Saturday, 5 December 2026 · Zaal 100, Amsterdam

An afternoon and evening of improvised music, dance and performance at Zaal 100.

Open the next encounter ↗

Saturday, 5 December 2026
Zaal 100, Amsterdam
14:00 Doors open
14:30–21:00 Eight Performances
All-access ticket €10 + optional donation

Confluence brings together artists from different generations, disciplines and improvisation communities across the Netherlands.

Seven invited artists each curate a 30-minute set, bringing their own collaborators and artistic approaches into the programme. Moving between the Grote Zaal and Kleine Zaal, audiences encounter a series of distinct performances, from intimate musical exchanges to larger encounters between movement and sound.

The evening closes with a collective improvisation, bringing artists from the different sets together in one shared space.

Organised by IMDL (Improvised Music Dance Laboratory), an artist-led platform connecting independent performers across cities and disciplines, Confluence celebrates both the individuality of each artist and the unexpected relationships that emerge when they meet.

Come for one set, stay for several, or spend the whole afternoon and evening with us.

Artists / curators SET 01 — 14:30 — Somascope ~ the inter/cellular poetry punks — Curated by Iris van Peppen & Diederick van Rijsewijk — Iris van Peppen (dance, voice), Diederick van Rijsewijk (movement, poetry), Suzan Stouthart, Hugo Ariëns (electric guitar), Lucas Kloosterboer (electronics) · SET 02 — 15:00 — Het lakschoentje van Pieternel — Curated by Raoul van der Weide — Makiko (dance), Nora Mulder (piano), Vera Morais (voice), Raoul van der Weide (cello) · SET 03 — 15:50 — Curated by WenChin Fu — WenChin Fu (cello), additional artists TBC · SET 04 — 16:40 — Curated by Sjors van der Mark — Sjors van der Mark (electric guitar), Jasna Veličković (electronics), Letizia Amadei (dance) · SET 05 — 17:10 — Tightrope — Curated by Maria Mavridou — Maria Mavridou (dance), Miriam den Boer (violin) · SET 06 — 19:00 — Liminal Space — Curated by Vincent Verburg — Andrea Denk (dance), Vincent Verburg (dance), Olena Ananieva (dance), Pablo Alanes (electronics) · SET 07 — 19:40 — IYJI — Curated by Ivo Bol — Ivo Bol (synths, tapes), Yukari Uekawa (saxophone), Jodi Gilbert (voice), Iakovos Pavlopoulos (drums) · SET 08 — 20:20 — Collective Finale — Participating artists TBC

Film shown: IMDL 05 — Acclimation, from the archive.

IMDL Confluence final poster — horizontal inflow 01, circle on the left. Saturday, 5 December 2026.
Two dancers reach toward one another with a live musician behind them at IMDL, GROND.

Archive photographs: Roman Zotter

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02 / Connected cities

Many scenes. No single root. One ground.

Deep Practice.
Open Encounters.

Deep Practice.
Open Encounters.

Deep Practice.
Open Encounters.

Deep Practice.
Open Encounters.

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

Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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.


Miri Lee — Collectief Imprography

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.


GROND building in Amsterdam

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.

GROND — Grond: an art space and collective in Amsterdam Oost, built around collectivity and process.

Splendor — Splendor: a house run by its musicians.

Tempel — Tempel: a former theosophical temple in Amsterdam-Zuid, flat floor and no fixed seats, now a home for experimental performance.

Utrecht

Utrecht

Utrecht

Utrecht

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.


Movement practice in the light-filled Studio 3, Utrecht

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.

The Hague

The Hague

The Hague

The Hague

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.


iii workspace in The Hague

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.


Ways of Sensing at iii — photo Pieter Kers / beeld.nu

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.

No single root.
One ground.

No single root.
One ground.

No single root.
One ground.

No single root.
One ground.

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.

05 / Artists

Distinct practices. Shared weight.

Each brings a language of their own.

Each brings a language of their own.

Each brings a language of their own.

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

Alan Purves

Alan Purves

Alan Purves

Alan Purves

Alan Purves

Percussionist · Improviser

Annija Krivjonoka — artist-supplied portrait

Annija Krivjonoka

Annija Krivjonoka

Annija Krivjonoka

Annija Krivjonoka

Singer, improviser and songwriter

Diederick van Rijsewijk performing at IMDL 04

Diederick van Rijsewijk

Diederick van Rijsewijk

Diederick van Rijsewijk

Diederick van Rijsewijk

Movement, poetry and dance · Improviser

Fransien van der Putt — portrait

Fransien van der Putt

Fransien van der Putt

Fransien van der Putt

Fransien van der Putt

Dramaturg, critic and visual artist · Improviser

Goda Zukauskaite — artist-supplied photograph

Goda Žukauskaitė

Goda Žukauskaitė

Goda Žukauskaitė

Goda Žukauskaitė

Performer, dancer and maker · Improviser

Henk Zwerver

Henk Zwerver

Henk Zwerver

Henk Zwerver

Henk Zwerver

Guitarist · Improviser

Hugo Ariëns

Hugo Ariëns

Hugo Ariëns

Hugo Ariëns

Hugo Ariëns

Guitarist, improviser and composer

Iris — performance photograph from the artist archive

Iris van Peppen

Iris van Peppen

Iris van Peppen

Iris van Peppen

Choreographer, performer, teacher and improviser

Ivo Bol performing at IMDL 04

Ivo Bol

Ivo Bol

Ivo Bol

Ivo Bol

Live-sampling artist and synthesist · Improviser

Izabela Pacewicz-Wysocka — performance archive

Izabela Pacewicz-Wysocka

Izabela Pacewicz-Wysocka

Izabela Pacewicz-Wysocka

Izabela Pacewicz-Wysocka

Dancer, performance artist and Chi Kung instructor · Improviser

Jee Ahn

Jee Ahn

Jee Ahn

Jee Ahn

Jee Ahn

Dance artist and educator · Improviser

Jodi Gilbert

Jodi Gilbert

Jodi Gilbert

Jodi Gilbert

Jodi Gilbert

Voice, singer and composer · Improviser

Letizia Amadei — portrait

Letizia Amadei

Letizia Amadei

Letizia Amadei

Letizia Amadei

Dancer and performer · Improviser

Lida Brouskari performing at IMDL 04

Lida Brouskari

Lida Brouskari

Lida Brouskari

Lida Brouskari

Piano and prepared piano · Improviser

Marc Nukoop performing at IMDL 02

Marc Nukoop

Marc Nukoop

Marc Nukoop

Marc Nukoop

Musician, sound artist, dancer and improviser

Maria Mavridou — performance photograph from the artist archive

Maria Mavridou

Maria Mavridou

Maria Mavridou

Maria Mavridou

dancer, performer, maker and teacher · Improviser

Maria Pisiou performing at IMDL 03

Maria Pisiou

Maria Pisiou

Maria Pisiou

Maria Pisiou

Choreographer, performer, educator and researcher · Improviser

Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

Violist, violinist, composer and teacher · Improviser

Michael Moore — clarinet performance

Michael Moore

Michael Moore

Michael Moore

Michael Moore

Clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and teacher · Improviser

Miri Lee — seated portrait

Miri Lee

Miri Lee

Miri Lee

Miri Lee

Imprographer · Dancer · Improviser

Miriam den Boer-Salmón — portrait

Miriam den Boer-Salmón

Miriam den Boer-Salmón

Miriam den Boer-Salmón

Miriam den Boer-Salmón

Violinist · Improviser

Pedro Latas — artist-supplied photograph

Pedro Latas

Pedro Latas

Pedro Latas

Pedro Latas

Composer, multimedia artist, performer and creative coder · Improviser

Raoul van der Weide performing at IMDL 04

Raoul van der Weide

Raoul van der Weide

Raoul van der Weide

Raoul van der Weide

Contrabassist and cellist · Improviser · Cultureel verbinder

Sandie Brischler

Sandie Brischler

Sandie Brischler

Sandie Brischler

Sandie Brischler

Visual artist and performer · Improviser

Vilbjørg Broch performing at IMDL 04

Vilbjørg Broch

Vilbjørg Broch

Vilbjørg Broch

Vilbjørg Broch

Voice, singer · Improviser

Miri Lee and Vincent Verburg performing together at IMDL, Splendor, July 2026

Vincent Verburg

Vincent Verburg

Vincent Verburg

Vincent Verburg

Choreographer, improviser and educator

WenChin Fu — performance photograph from the artist archive

WenChin Fu

WenChin Fu

WenChin Fu

WenChin Fu

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.

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Improvised Music
Dance Laboratory

Improvised Music
Dance Laboratory

Amsterdam · Utrecht · The Hague

Amsterdam · Utrecht · The Hague

© IMDL 2026

© IMDL 2026