professional art education in 2023. How to achieve this at Codarts and how to hold on to it? Together with our employees, teachers and students we will come up with an answer to this over the coming period. Because [...] commissioned an external bureau to initiate a broad exploratory inquiry with the musical departments. The goal of this inquiry is to give students and employees the space to report unsafety and transgressive [...] feel that we have to address these issues in an even more constructive and structural manner. And, Codarts being a Rotterdam university, we will put our money where our mouth is, so to speak. Heeding these
initiative to organize benefit concerts at the Kruisplein and WMDC venues. These concerts are part of the Music for Valencia initiative, which organizes benefit concerts worldwide to offer support to the affected [...] severely affected by flooding due to a Depression Aislada and Niveles Altos (DANA). This natural disaster caused massive damage and disrupted the lives of many inhabitants. To help the victims, music students [...] Genovés (Valencia), ‘Music for Valencia’ will make sure that all the raised money will go directly to the most affected localities. Once the money is collected, we will show in our social media where these
perspective: how do we want to organise our society, who do we want to be? Do we give the new generation the opportunity to relate to the challenges they face? It’s our responsibility to prevent the further erosion [...] and want to be part of us. I want Codarts to become a place that everyone refers to as: “That's the place to be, that's where it happens.” A dream come true The same ambition also applies to the energy [...] ultimate goal is to make working here a lot of fun,” says David. “We want our employees to think on Sunday evening: 'Tomorrow I get to go back to work again!' Of course, it doesn't always have to feel like that
established. We are going to communicate more and better. Internally, among ourselves and with the outside world. Providing clarity and listening better to signals and needs is essential to achieve a better learning [...] We have now taken a number of additional steps to improve social safety and further enhance the work and learning culture. We believe it is good to be transparent about the process and progress. A new [...] an internal analysis has been carried out. We will get to work immediately on the improvement points that emerge from this research. In addition to the existing Student Life programme, aimed at optimising
for Culture’s advice as an encouragement to continue along the chosen path and to continue to strengthen the future generation of artists in this area. Central to this is the enhancement of didactic skills [...] students to codes of conduct, make confidential counsellors and complaints committees more visible, refine regulations and make them easier to find. The dialogue shows openness and alertness to social safety [...] culture in which everyone dares to speak out and to address one another. Only in this way can we create a safe and inclusive environment where all talents can flourish. We take to heart the recommendations made
practicing your profession. And, to a much bigger extent, to prepare you psychologically by requiring you to constantly evolve and evaluate yourself. I only learned to appreciate this emotional aspect [...] Rita: “I use this first work year to learn more about these conditions, how to care for highly vulnerable people, and how to handle my own mind while doing so. I do my best to attend conferences and workshops [...] cohort. Since it was a positive experience to everyone involved, the MAT faculty asked me to do another round at the Codarts Research Festival. I was really happy to say yes, as this was essentially my first
design of their study programme, to organise their lessons as they see fit without censorship. Not to provoke. Not to make a political statement. But to teach young people how to interpret today’s complex world [...] where there is room for difference and dialogue on any subject. Purely to learn to understand each other better. We do not have to agree with each other, it can and will rub off on us, but (the threat of) [...] training if they do not feel able to lead sensitive discussions or challenge students to express their opinions, for example. We stand behind our teachers That is why we want to underline once again that we
stipend to Iris Verhoek. The stipend is an annual scholarship awarded on behalf of Erasmus University Rotterdam to a Music Theater student of Codarts. The scholarship, worth € 1.000 is intended to enable [...] according to the committee. She masters the talent to bring together the components of vocality, musicality and theatricality in an eloquent performance. In addition, she shows the will to continuously [...] awarded to a promising student of Music Theater. There is a lot of diverse talent in this academic year. In the end, after extensive deliberation by the committee, it was unanimously decided to award the
incredibly cool is it that I get to contribute to this?" For Khorshid, the theme of freedom is especially meaningful. She emphasizes that she finds it important to be able to express her feelings through music [...] with singers Khorshid Dadbeh and Cici Isenia . Alumni Khorshid Dadbeh came to the Netherlands five years ago from Tehran, Iran, to study the instruments Tar, Tanbour and Setar at Codarts. After earning her [...] degree, she went on for her master's degree in Performing Music. Cici Isenia came to the Netherlands from Curacao to study at Codarts. Cici took the Music in Education programme: "a very broad education
looking forward to performing these pieces all over the Netherlands. ‘When you haven’t performed before an audience for a long time, you tend to forget why you’re doing it.’ ‘You have to be very flexible’ [...] someone drops out, you have to be able to step in immediately.’ Lieke: ‘As an intern with a dance company you are also third cast. So we are very well prepared and know how to deal with this when the time [...] Codarts is that you are given lots of opportunities. We’ve been lucky to have performed in pieces of well-known choreographers and to be able to put that on our resumes. Sometimes choreographers provide pieces
