Landmarks is the collaboration between artists Espen Hjort en Mees Borgman. Together they create performances around ecological issues and questions, working with movement, music and imagination. Landmarks invites its audience to enter into new and unexpected relationships with the world.

The coming years Landmarks will collaborate with Oerol Festival (NL), Gaudeamus Festival (NL), Black Box Teater (NO), The Future Library (NO), De Veenfabriek (NL) and Twee Turven Hoog (NL)

Espen Dahl Hjort

Espen (Norway, 1989) is working as director, playwright, author and dramaturge, and co-artistic director of Landmarks.

He graduated in 2016 from the directing department at the theatre school of the Amsterdam University of the Arts, and is active in the Netherlands and Norway. At the moment, he is pursuing an MA in theatre at the Stockholm Academy of the Arts.

For him theater is a space to investigate how to live and how we create the world we live in. He often departs from the encounter with the unknown, the other, that which is radically different from ourselves. The body, landscapes and 'spatial music' are returning points of interest. The relationship between human beings and nature (whatever that might be) is the focus in his work.

For more information about Espen: www.espenhjort.com

Mees Borgman

Mees (The Netherlands, 1992) is working as performer, musician, choreographer, dramaturge and co-artistic director of Landmarks.

In 2015 she graduated from the mime department at the theatre school of the Amsterdam University of the Arts. She is producing her own work, writing music and performing at different companies in a variety of genres; dance, film, installation, theater and site-specific works. From September 2025 she will be pursuing an MA in Performing Arts at the the Stockholm Academy of the Arts.

In her work she is researching the connection between body, landscape, sound and ecology. Always looking for the balance between universal and personal ingredients. 

For her theater is an arena where proposals for the future are being tested and created. Where we freely can discover things we can not see or talk about off stage.  

Being part of a generation that has to deal with climate change she feels the urge to actively take part with her work by inviting ecological systems to join her processes.

For more information about Mees: www.meesborgman.nl

Floor Cremers

Floor (The Netherlands, 1992) is working as a dramaturge for Landmarks. 

In 2015 she graduated from the production management program at the Academy of Theater and Dance, after which she continued her studies in both theater studies (2016) and the International Dramaturgy master at the university of Amsterdam (2018). As part of her masters degree, she studied at Stockholm University, focussing on gender and feminism in theater. 

Her current practice involves doing research, fundraising, moderating and producing work within the performing arts field. What motivates her in her work is to find and research radical equality, connecting art and ecology, with the aim to envision a more sustainable future. 

Within her practice as a dramaturg, she focuses on how the performance relates and communicates with the audience. She feels true change starts with imagining the world that we collectively want to be a part of. The theater is a place where we can imagine these other worlds and envision the relationships that shape it.  Art is the arena where change and activism can take shape and where new ideas can be refined and shared in dialogue with an audience. 

Seán Ó Dalaigh

Seán (Ireland, 1989) is working as a composer for Landmarks. 

Seán is a composer and performer from Kerry, Ireland currently finishing his doctoral degree in Composition at Stanford University’s Department of Music and the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). Seán holds a Bachelor of Music from the CIT Cork School of Music and a Master’s in Composition from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

Seán’s music centers on the materiality of instruments, the physicality of sound performance, and the acoustics of the performance space. He composes primarily chamber and orchestral music for acoustic and electro-acoustic ensembles. His work in music technology includes fixed-media and computer-assisted composition, and he is fluent in multiple music coding and production environments. His fixed-media works range from mono settings to diffusion over multi-channel systems such as ambisonics. He often works as a composer and sound designer for experimental theatre and dance. In recent times, his compositions depart from transcription across field recording, Irish traditional music, and medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.

For more information about Seán: www.seanodalaigh.com