Laila Claessen 

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In July 2026, I did a two-week residency at De Nijverheid together with Charlotte, in collaboration with Amarte.

It was the first time we worked together. We come from different performative backgrounds, so the residency was mainly a chance to get to know each other’s way of working and see what could come out of that.
 

During this short and fun collaboration, we worked on vocal techniques, text writing, physical composition, and improvisation. All these elements were fueled by the theme disappointment. Why? Well, because of very personal, yet super universal reasons.

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Out of these two weeks, we created Talk It Over — a first version of a performance made up of different framed improvisations. We presented this work at the end of the residency on July 17.

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The performance is still very much in progress, and Charlotte and I want to keep working on it and see where it can go.

‘Come around and talk it over’
This is a line from the song ‘your love’ by The Outfield. A song we listened to on the day we met.  

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