Zoë Greten
Zoë Greten (2002) moves with remarkable talent between performing and choreographing. She studied at the Royal Conservatoire and the Dutch National Ballet Academy, interned with Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT 2), among others, and currently dances with IID Company and other projects. She has also had a great passion for dance-making from a young age: in 2015, she won the TV show Superkids with her own solo, and in recent years she has created several distinctive works, including two for our Junior Company: If only I knew the right way (2022) and Sonder (2025). Thanks to both her classical training and her background in hip-hop, Zoë’s style is characterised by a combination of technique and precision with rhythm and dynamism. In 2025, Zoë received the Leo Spreksel Award, a prize for promising young choreographers.
In her new creation, Glitch in the matrix, Zoë explores the tension between comfort and control: the space where our secret longing to dream and to dare quietly lingers. We live in a world that demands structure and predictability, yet within that very framework grows the hunger for the unrestrained and unfiltered. The piece investigates this duality: how we can surrender to routine and, at the same time, yearn for the moment when that routine breaks.
For this new work, Zoë is collaborating with composer Lengleng Zhang. They met during a networking session of Composing Future Dances, an exchange initiative set up by Dutch National Ballet and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam to enable young choreographers and composers to explore each other’s worlds.
Lola van Rumpt
Lola van Rumpt (2000) graduated from the Lucia Marthas Institute for Performing Arts and has since worked as a dancer and maker with companies such as Zero Dance Theatre and IID Company. With her background in contemporary dance and floorwork, her style is characterised by fluid, organic movement and partnering. In her work, she addresses current themes such as climate and human behaviour, often combining dance with music and text.
In her new work The Weight of Becoming, Lola reflects on the loss that is inextricably linked to growth – on what we leave behind when we move forward. Together with the dancers, she explores how we can surrender to the unknown and learn to see ourselves as we truly are. The result is an ode to stumbling, being stuck, losing and rediscovering. A glimpse of who we might have been, a longing for what is gone, and an attempt to rebuild ourselves anew.
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