organisation
Theater Instituut Nederland
Theater Instituut Nederland, an independent non-profit organization, is housed in five magnificent seventeenth-century buildings on one of the main canals in the historic center of Amsterdam. It is a unique and complex organization, with a wide variety of facilities, resources and capacities.
The present mission statement reads as follows:
- The objective of Theater Instituut Nederland is to make a significant contribution to the knowledge and opinion of the Dutch theatre culture in an international context.
- The Theater Instituut provides information, conducts research, initiates debate and stimulates reflections related to the needs and interests of professional theatre and its present and future audiences.
The Theater Instituut houses a museum and a library, collects current information and documentation and organizes events such as discussions, conferences, workshops, exhibitions and international presentations. It publishes books, compact discs and other materials and participates in various international networks.
Partnerships
The Theater Instituut actively participates in several international networks such as the Informal European Theater Meeting (www.ietm.org), the European Network of Informal Centers for the Performing Arts (www.enicpa.net), the European Mime Federation, Transversales and the International Organization for the Transition of Professional Dancers (IOTPD).
It also works with many established partners, such as the Vlaams Theater Instituut in Brussels (www.vti.be), on the dissemination of information and presentations abroad and with the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (www.amsu.edu) on courses and workshops.
It also collaborates closely with the Department of Theatre Studies at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, as well as with other universities, professional training programmes, festivals, companies and research organisations. Finally, Theater Instituut Nederland also serves as the Dutch centre of the International Theatre Institute.
