Anja Krans Email & Phone Number

The Hague

As an international programme manager for the Performing Arts Fund NL (Fonds Podiumkunsten), my job is to promote Dutch performing arts abroad, and make useful connections between the Dutch and international performing arts sector and its artists. I am an advocate for Dutch (music) theatre and dance professionals, for playwrights and the sector of performing arts for children. My main task as programme manager is to connect Dutch(-based) artists to international partners, to commission the presentation of Dutch shows, and to invite international professionals to showcases and/or visitor's programmes. In this perspective I closely collaborate with the Dutch performing arts' scene, with festivals and venues in The Netherlands and abroad, but also with stakeholders like ministries (foreign affairs and culture), Dutch Culture and Dutch embassies.To stay up to date about the developments in the performing arts, I watch - still with a lot of pleasure and enthusiasm - approximately 150 performances a year.Between October 2014 and January 2022 the programme of Fonds Podiumkunsten that I worked for, was called Dutch Performing Arts.

Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

As the Conservatorium of Zuyd is the leading partner of the Erasmus+ Project EOALAB (European Opera Academy LAB), I have been working as the project coordinator of this project, from 7 months after it started until its end. In total 7 Higher Music Education Institutes in Europe (Parma, Porto, Vilnius, Riga, Antwerp, Stockholm and Maastricht) plus the network organization of conservatories AEC in Belgium were participating in this project. The end date of the project was 28 February 2022, its running time in total 37 months, due to covid. The project result was very positive, without budget cuts; its final score was 8,1.

Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands

In 2014 I co-wrote an application for an Erasmus+ project, for the department Bachelor of Dance Education of ArtEZ, together with HEI's in Sweden and Denmark. Its title was 'Next Move', and it touched upon the redefiniton of the Dance and Music teacher. After this application had been granted I became project coordinator for ArtEZ, for the full three years; the project got a score of 8,8 from Erasmus+. After this I remained connected to ArtEZ for the same department, and played a role in the Research Circle of the Academy of Theatre and Dance, in which we had the goal to further develop interdisciplinary research in the performing arts field.

Between October 2013 and October 2014 I was responsible for the International Promotion of Theatre and Dance, also for Young Audiences, this time as project/program of the Performing Arts Fund NL (located at Dutch Culture, Amsterdam). This program included: showcases like Moving Meetings Dance, also Dutch windows at festivals like Tweetakt and Poparts; delegation to APAP, delegation to IPAY; bundled presentations at Usine C in Montreal, a playwright project in Maribor, performing arts presentations in Turkey, and dance programs in Moscow and St.Petersburg.

Amsterdam

I'm responsible for the international promotion of Dutch theatre, dance, music theatre, also for young audiences. I develop projects like Moving Meetings Dance and Theatre (showcase programs of Dutch performing arts), bundled presentations in several countries and international programmes in the field of performing arts within the context of stately manifestations (exchanges with NRW/Germany (2010), Turkey (2012), Brasil (2012), Russia (2013).

As programme manager I promoted Dutch theatre and dance (also for young audiences) abroad and created performing arts programmes for or in collaboration with festivals and venues, also in the context of bilateral celebrations between The Netherlands and other countries.Before I became international programme manager, I was Head of the 'Knowledge' and Information Department ("Kennis en Informatie"; between 2007-2009), leading 15 team members. As Head I was part of the Management Team of the Theater Instituut Nederland. Before that time I have been Theatre Specialist, and also working for the Collection of the TIN.Besides that I wrote a few publications, amongst others a monography about theatermaker Annemarie Prins, and 'Vertraagd Effect' (2005), a publication about the history of the development of Performing Arts in the Netherlands since 1969, including 18 interviews with promising young performing arts' talents, like for example Jacob Derwig, Emio Greco, Marjorie Boston. Esther Gerritsen.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Since 1990, I have given 8 different working groups at the Theatre Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam. Topics: from text and performance analysis to playwriting.

Between 1990 and 1994 I worked as assistant to the director and dramaturg for Cloud Chamber, dance theatre, and did some internship with other companies, like Toneelgroep Amsterdam.

Drs, Theatre And Drama

Financial Management

I followed a Financial management course for non financial managers in Spring 2013.

Theatre And Drama

I studied for half a year at Goldsmith's College thanks to an Erasmus grant

Drs, Modern Dutch Literature, Cum Laude

Plus 1st degree Teaching Qualification