Staff
Sher Doruff, formerly Head of the Research Programme at Waag Society, is currently a research fellow with the ARTI research group of the Amsterdam School of the Arts. She received her PhD from University of the Arts London/Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2006. Her research investigates the role of collaborative interplay and creative processes in performance practice, evolving the concepts in her dissertation: The Translocal Event and the Polyrhythmic Diagram. She has published numerous papers, edited a book on Live Art, regularly lectures and presents in academic and artistic contexts and nurtures a modest artistic practice.
Jeroen Fabius (AMCh programme director) was head of department of the School for New Dance Development in association with Robert Steijn from 2000-2002, and has been teaching Dance History and Anthropology since 1991. He is currently research fellow with the Art Theory and Research and Art Practice and Development research group at the Amsterdam School for the Arts and is doing his PhD with the University of Utrecht (working title: Material political bodies. The role of proprioception and kinesthetics in political subjectivity). He has been a member of the Dance committee for the Fonds voor Amateur en Podiumkunsten since 2004.
Myriam Van Imschoot is enmeshed in the making and thinking of dance performance. Originally a dance historian and essay writer, she has become a regular collaborator of Meg Stuart and Benoît Lachambre (as a dramaturg and occasionally as a performer and co-teacher). She has been involved in projects with Vera Mantero (curator of Connexive), Antonia Baehr (performer), Philipp Gehmacher (dramaturg), Tristero (coach) and Jérôme Bel (bookmaker). Together with Jeroen Peeters she leads Sarma, a workplace for dance related research with an extensive text collection on 
www.sarma.be. In 2008 she is researcher in residence at Kaaitheater and Workspace Brussels with 'Crash Landing Revisited (and more)', a research project that seeks to develop a collaborative and curatorial approach towards shared historical praxis and is invested in themes like improvisation, catastrophe culture and sound.
Bettina Masuch (*1964, Solingen, Germany) worked between 1998 – 2003 as Dramaturge at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin and as dramaturge for Meg Stuart at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich (“Alibi”, 2002, Visitors Only,2003). Between 2003 and 2008 she was curator for dance at the Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin: artistic director of the dance festival CONTEXT, member of the artistic direction panel of Tanz im August, Berlin. Since 2008 she is artistic director of Springdance Festival in Utrecht.
Thomas Lehmen is a freelance choreographer, dancer and teacher based in Berlin. He studied from 1986-1990 at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. His productions, e.g. distanzlos (1999), mono subjects (2001), Schreibstück (2002), Better to ... (2004), or Lehmen lernt (2006) are touring worldwide. In the stage pieces as well in projects like Funktionen (Toolbox) 2004, he is interested in communications, cybernetics and the status of human beings in correlation with structures as a conceptual approach. He is teaching at universities for example in Amsterdam, Berlin and Hamburg, and gives workshops worldwide. www.thomaslehmen.de
Susan Rethorst has been creating dances since 1975. Her work has been presented by many New York venues including The Museum of Modern Art; The Kitchen Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Saint Marks, as well as at various dance theaters, universities, and festivals throughout the U.S. Internationally her work has been produced by The Holland Festival, Spazio Zero Rome, The Kunsthalle Basel, The Aix-en-Provence Festival, among others. In 1999, she was the recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She has recently co-initiated SUPA (studio Upson in Pennsylvania), a programme dedicated to choreography: how it is thought of and taught, and what of its knowledge is applicable to other fields. Her current work is a series of 'no-money-no-space dances' and addresses issues of displacement and security in relation to space.