photo's by: sandra zegarra patow

Imke Zeinstra is a Performance Artist. She was born in 1992 in Almere, Netherlands. At the moment she lives in Rotterdam. After a prepatory year she started to study Fine Arts at AKV| St. Joost Breda in 2011. In 2015 she graduated in Fine Arts

Imke’s work is characterized by the physical use of her own body. Material and clothing choices also play a major role. This emphasizes themes such as seduction, sensuality and eroticism. Her work is at first sight aesthetically pleasing to look at. In her performances she tries to show her most inner desires, even though they are sometimes in conflict with each other.
In addition to live performances, Imke also uses photography and video as a medium.

Performing shapes in space.
I am whatever you see in me.

My name is DanieI van den Broeke and I tend to look at this world from a fantastic and playful perspective, often focusing on the brighter sides of heavy subjects. I graduated as a theater maker (HKU, 2002) but always involved myself in many different trades. Film and music production, performance art, kids shows, art events and dj-ing have been prominent alongside my theater work. Since a few years I've been specialising in headphone theatrical shows, working for festivals, schools and universities. I created The Performance Bar together with Florian Borstlap. It's the place where many of my artistic dreams have become reality. It amazes me how every edition brings a unique vibe and new insights. Especially The Performance Bar community, that has been emerging over the years, is inspiring me to keep on developing this project. Together we learn, make new connections and have lots of fun at the same time.

SUZANNE STAVAST

Suzanne uses the stage as a place for transformation, making room for things in her mind that she can't reach in any other way. She is using the stage as vessel for connection, with oneself or between members of the audience. Suzanne has transformed into many roles and characters, as well as into more abstract performances. She mesmerizes people with her voice, loves to make crazy headpieces and lately she is discovering her inner clown. Fashion, Fun, Freak

Bram is a improviser extraordinaire. Whether it's performing, rapping, dancing, painting or making music, Bram is on his best on the fly and changeable like wet paint in a typhoon.
A beautiful host who has embraced his lollipop cross-dress desire which draws inspiration from japan street-fashion to old rich ladies playing tennis.
Ready to take on any crowd or art form, Bram is there to complete your mix of artist.

MARADIA BORSTLAP

Maradia is a costume creator, visual performer and programmer who has been part of the Performance Bar community from the very first beginning.

With a background in philosophy and her search for meaning, she started with performative stories based on the need to translate existential questions into physical experiences. Fascinated by identity, she also uses alter ego's to reflect on social behavior and normative rules.

To stimulate the subconscious mind, she creates alienating yet aesthetically shaped costumes, constructed from recognizable materials, such as paper plates, plastic bags, or children’s toys.

CONNOR SCHUMACHER

Connor Schumacher began dancing at the Purchase College Conservatory of Dance in New York, where he studied composition and performance. After graduating in 2010 Connor moved to the Netherlands. In 2012, he began work with Dansateliers to create his own performances. In 2014 he was asked to be a part of the European project Performing Gender, where he made his first performance Museum performance I trust in this life we will have another moment alone . Connor was then one of five choreographers who participated in the European project Dancing Museums from June 2015 to June 2017. Since 2015 Connor has continued to work in collaboration with Museum Boijmans van Beuningen to bring the perspective of the moving body in its varying capacities and perspectives to the museum space.

Jo Alexander is a multi-disciplinary artist who delights in collaborative work. As a performer and live painter at The Performance Bar, she finds inspiration and unique motivation in creating a connection with the different themes and energies that arise on different nights. She is especially inspired by working alongside other performers and artists and within constraints of time and materials.

Outside TPB, Jo’s visual arts practice often involves working with other musicians to create original album artwork and written materials to support their sounds and stories. She makes music with www.windstil.nl, lives in Rotterdam, and is very, very curious.

DOVYDAS STRIMAITIS

I am Dovydas Strimaitis, a young dance artist, which means that I perform, create and engage in thinking about dance. At the moment, dance and art are my primary personal and professional interests. I feel very lucky and responsible to have found dance and it highly informs the choices I make in my life. My goal is to accumulate various kinds of knowledge about dance, art and living in general, and share it in different forms, from performing to creating to discussing & reflecting.

MIRJAM VAN RIJN

Mirjam van Rijn is a Dutch artist who loves to make anything fun. She mostly makes portraits, on any surface - from painting the largest airborne paper plane to series of flower pots, often working on location at events.
Mirjam is also part of De Vliegende Dino together with Stephanie van der Klooster, making outlandish paintings by clashing classical and modern methods and subjects.

Code 435 is a cosmic being, orbiting the earth since 2014. He made his first landfall on the UK Glastonbury festival in June 2016, where he performed a live set with the interplanetary space pirate "Interstellar"

There are rumors that he makes regular visits to a small performance bar in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and according to NASA there have been sightings of him performing on the 2019 Summer Sonic festival in Tokyo, Japan

Lithuanian young generation artist Lukas Karvelis has already gained huge attention for his sensitive, vulnerable, daring performances and charismatic personality. His dance is a unique and strongly peculiar phenomenon that already has elaborated individual style. He looks for inspiration in a folk and pop cultures, environment and mostly - in himself, therefore, his first full-length performance Blank Spots is an attempt to understand oneself and its surroundings.
The background of Lukas Karvelis consists of different contemporary dance techniques, ballet training, urban dances and a touch of vogueing. All these styles come together in the dancer's research.
Lukas Karvelis has a huge interest in various forms and experiments with all the advantages of interdisciplinary arts, therefore, he has already collaborated with film directors, musicians, fashion designers, and performing artists.

I am an artist and designer researching ways to create visual narratives through a variety of media reflecting on socio-political tendencies expressed through (internet) subcultures.

My work consists of both commissioned work and autonomous research projects. I use video, graphic design (web and print), performance and installation as a means to close gaps of knowledge between netizens and citizens, and to express concerns about how digital life is shaping alt-realities by amplifying growing polarization.

Through my performance installations, VJ projects and collaborations I try to challenge and transcend the boundaries of my former graphic design practice and interact with my audience in new and direct ways.

Joni Kling (1986) is a Rotterdam based artist who started her own brand after graduating from the Willem de Kooning Academy.

The Egyptian / Art Deco style illustrations are the typical trademark of STUDIO KLING. Besides that, observing every day life, architecture and nature are important elements in the work of Joni Kling.

Her illustrations are the origin of it all and after that she applies it to multiple disciplines such as murals, performance art, visuals, fashion and tattoos.

She's now working on more 3D projects such as interior accessories, sculptures and stained glass.

Transgender pop artist KYARA makes a bold & powerful statement empowering all feminine figures. She is all about a new take on girl power, including all kinds of women, whatever form they come in. In her new music video “WALK” KYARA calls her Femme Gang together to help her celebrate the NEW WOMAN, including a cast of trans women, plus size women, women with diverse skin tones, as well as, feminine boys, drag queens and gender fluid people.

The Science Of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll is what lured Levin into the Performance Bar. He feels at home both in academia and the bursting nightlife. Often his performances build on scientific research that explores social and political structures. His artistic focus lies in the interplay of performance, voice-over, and digital art to create immersive conceptual work that breaks with linear narrative structures.

This queen from the birthplace of the typical Dutch haute cuisine speciality 'kapsalon' will serve you her royal selection of rhythmic yet extremely tangy music.

When we think of it, her DJ sets are just like a real Dutch kapsalon experience. Think of the crispyness of the fries and shawarma, the smoothness of the melted cheese and creamy garlic sauce, the spicyness of the sambal and the freshness of the lettuce. It's always a real treat.

The young Nala Brown born, raised and based in Rotterdam, has a sound that varies from soulful and funky house, to energetic techno and bass, matching her persona. Coming out as a DJ in 2017, her sound and presence has already earned her bookings at different events throughout Rotterdam. Next to her DJ career, Nala Brown is also co-founder of Wavey Cartel, an all-female movement organising events which promote female artists via events by, with and for women, shifting the imbalance between women and men in the creative/music industries.

My work challenges the very nature of the concept of belonging, roots, the necessity of being part of something bigger, a family, a tribe, a community, etc. I take this basic instinct as a main poetic driving force, I am on a quest of reestablishing (lost) connections between people.

Strongly influenced by the socially engaged and feminist art practices, I usually work directly with the context and collaborate with concrete people in form of interview, collective music making, improvised theatre. Having gathered this material, I create embodied experiences (performance art pieces), often using sound and participative practices in public spaces.

Born in the Portuguese capital, Joana Cavaco has studied singing, cello and classical guitar at the Metropolitan Music School of Lisbon. Despite her early interest with music, Joana quickly developed a passion for European politics, Women’s rights and Culture which made her pursue an undergraduate degree in International Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Cavaco resides in Rotterdam, where she manages her own grass roots project ‘’KONTRA’’.
As a performer and artist, Joana touches upon themes regarding to her identity as a queer Jewish immigrant woman living in the Netherlands. Cavaco plays with her own sensorial memories and enjoys story telling while giving the audience an experience that will hopefully allow them to connect with her and to each other as intersectional humans. Pieces such as ‘’Fado gentrificad@’’ (which includes the typical Portuguese Fado singing) and ‘’Raquel histérica’’ both focus on her experience living a conservative country such as Portugal and how that relates to her own day-to-day life. She has experience with the creation of safe spaces and has developed various practices through KONTRA- aiming to connect art and activism. By organizing an international women’s day SLUT WALK and creating performances that allow for the ad hoc discussion of these topics, Joana aims to catalyse change from the bottom up.

In his solo performance he uses his own voice and a customized 8 track loopstation to create full finished dance productions in a split second. He takes you on a journey from Noisia inspired drum & bass to Major Lazeristic dancehall to Whitney Houston ballads and back to Jazzy Ska.

He is also a theatrical showman. With his clownesque stand-up skills he tries to disrupt his audience by fucking around with the clichés and customs of the pop and dance scene.

In the past 2 years Maask played over 400 shows at almost every Dutch festival as well as countries abroad such as Germany, Belgium, Poland and Scotland.

Maask is a true live performer so if you get the chance, go and check him out!

Performing since 2009 as an independant artist as aerialist, entertainer and model in multible disciplines and various fields,

such as circus and variety, festivals, galas and events, art projects and anything else, that needs a strong character

and the vision that everything is possible!

Currently based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands but always looking forward to explore the borders of both space and creativity.

MARGO VAN DE LINDE

Margo is a singer, improvisor and spoken word artist showing work nationally and internationally. Her trademark is creating performances that use a combination of written and freestyle text, supported by music. Her style is unpredictable, authentic, raw. Current projects include Subculture Cabaret, a performance event she organises and hosts at Mezrab Theatre, and hosting late night shows. She often features at the Performance Bar with performances that borrow from suggestions given to her by the audience - knowingly or unknowingly. She has doubled up with MAASK for what they call 'Vocal PingPong Matches' during several PB nights.

If this was world war 3...

I would be a surviver of this war,
unlike many.
The struggle that i been through..
That i had to grow up and stand on my own feet.
With nothing else but survival-mode
and my instinct following the beat.
Thats when i found my roots back and made me use my power again.

I feel, I write,
Then create music in different styles.
I sing, I heal,
Cause others can find themself, in the way how I used to feel.

It got me where i am, and who
I am today.
My tree only grew bigger,
each mistake i made!