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.

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