Living in a current cultural recession of the experimental Arts
Photos Roman Zotter
Katie Duck is a renowned multidisciplinary artist, performer, teacher and pioneer with a career spanning several decades. Duck is celebrated for her innovative multidisciplinary approach to performance art, blending dance, theatre, music, and text in her work. Duck uses a microscopic view of improvisation as both a creative tool and a performance strategy. Her work often blurs the line between composition and spontaneity, challenging traditional notions of performance. Her performances are often characterised by their spontaneity and interaction with the audience, as well as their exploration of themes such as vulnerability, identity, and the human experience.
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Local work Amsterdam
September Body Body Body Classes Katie Duck 16:00-18:00 10€
Thursdays 4, 11, 18, 25 / Fridays 5, 12, 19, 26
Attic Studio Wilhelminastraat 139-3, 1054WC Amsterdam. Ring the top bell.
Registration open: katieduckmail@gmail.com
Go Here for more information about Body Body Body classes
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November 22 Saturday Workshop by Sylvain Meret 15:00-18:00 30€
The fluidity of Gel/Sol, movement practice and composition from expression to dissolution.
Inspired by the somatic movement practice ‘Continuum » this workshop will focus on awaking the fluid body. We will explore the choreography of fluid movement through wave motions, undulations and spirals initiated within the fascial structure of connective tissues. We will learn specific breaths and sounds to deepen the felt-sense of intrinsic movements. We will then explore the rhythmic patterns of expanding into form and expressivity and dissolving from form. The Gel/Sol states of water are two qualities found in nature, like in a spherical water drop and a water puddle. This primordial movement is like breathing, but also mirrors the constant shift in everything we do, create, express, it borns and it dies, it inhales and it exhales. Gel/Sol is a terminology used to describe the two states of a cell when it moves and breathes. This will be our inspiration to awaken movement, expression and composition as we move in time and space.
Attic Studio Wilhelminastraat 139-3, 1054WC Amsterdam. Ring the top bell.
Registration: katieduckmail@gmail.com
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Attic Studio Performance
The Attic Studio is on the fourth floor of my apartment. In the Attic studio I teach classes, workshops and support ?occasional casual performances by local and visiting artists.
Up coming Attic Studio Performance 19:30 November 23 Sunday Sylvain Meret, Maria Mavridou and Ben Roberts (cello) Go here for updates
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November 30 “SKY” Ventilator Cinema OT301 Amsterdam
“SKY” is a one hour real-time performance created and performed by Katie Duck (Amsterdam) and Sharon Smith (Devon), in collaboration with cellist Ben Roberts (Devon). Katie and Sharon are known for their previous piece “Abandon Human”. You can follow their duet collaborative work on their website “Katie Duck and Sharon Smith”
‘SKY” is performed with text, movement, live music and a film that fills the room with silent, slow moving images of skies. With a laptop in the space, Katie and Sharon develop their text challenging AI with questions: “What is nothing”? ”Do you have emotions”? “What happens when we die”? They explore ancient stories of skies in tandem and in company with our current cosmic confusion. Their correspondence results in a tender playful dialogue, gently funny, absurd, and not afraid of the dark.
Sarts 19:30 / doors open 19:00 / one hour (no intermission) / 10€
Ventilator Cinema and Bar Overtoom 301, 1054 HW 2nd floor / Reservations
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December 29, 30, 31 Xmas Multidisciplinary Workshop Katie Duck Attic Studio Amsterdam 100€ three days / or / 45€ per day
The Xmas Workshop has been held in Amsterdam since 1999. For dancers, musicians, actors, singers and performance artists. An invitation for Artists to gather, take time to reflect the year, and wash off the holiday in the work. You can choose to do one, two or all three days.
Go here for more information about Katie Duck Multidisciplinary workshop content.
Register: katieduckmail@gmail.com
Attic Studio Wilhelminastraat 139-3, 1054WC Amsterdam. Ring the top bell.
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Every August since 2009 – Summer Course Amsterdam
Local Project yearly with the Amsterdam collective of Multidisciplinary Artists. The course was created as a platform for artists to gather, research, and create multidisciplinary compositions towards real-time performances.
Registration for 2006 begins in April 2026
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Mailing list
If you want to stay updated about my classes, workshops and performances in the Attic Studio Amsterdam, join my mailing list: katieduckmail@gmail.com
Go to Agenda for workshops and performances abroad 2025