Cast Plagiary announced
Local dancers and artificial intelligence create a unique performance every night
In Plagiary, a completely new dance performance unfolds right before your eyes. Ten local dancers follow live computer instructions, translating them on the spot into movement. The result is unpredictable: sometimes movingly beautiful, sometimes painfully funny – and always unique.
The live direction comes from a speaking AI, challenging the dancers to pure improvisation. The concept is by award-winning choreographer and dance technologist Alisdair Macindoe, who has been experimenting with AI in the dance world since 2018 and has previously appeared at Noorderzon. Together with media artist Sam Mcgilp, he creates a visual world that is specially generated for each performance. No two shows are ever the same.
We can now also reveal who these local dancers are: a diverse group of performers from the Netherlands and abroad, each bringing their own style and energy to this remarkable experiment.
These are the dancers for Plagiary
Tatiana Śpiewak
Tatiana Śpiewak, a Warsaw-born freelance dancer, actress, and performance artist, moves between disciplines to explore the therapeutic potential of the body, balancing softness and intensity in both life and art.
Yoko Haveman
As a multidisciplinary director, maker, and performer in theater and film, Yoko Haveman (Brazilian/Japanese, 1994) will join Plagiary, and it’s powerful cast as a performer, diving fully into an interdependent language of movement and presence.
Courtney May Robertson
Courtney May Robertson (1992, Scotland) is a Rotterdam-based performer and interdisciplinary maker, whose internationally presented work blends dance, performance art, coding, visual art and puppetry.
Arno Verbruggen
Arno Verbruggen (b. 1997, Namur) is a Brussels-based movement artist working across dance, choreography, modeling, and directing, whose career spans collaborations with international artists and companies—including Club Guy & Roni, Aura Dance Theatre, Maison The Faux, and Romeo Castellucci—and whose solo work, including SODOM (2025), continues to tour Europe while they develop their new project HYACINTH between Belgium and the Netherlands.
Żaneta Kęsik
Żaneta Kęsik (PL, 1995) is a Netherlands-based dancer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist working across dance performance, movement research, and sound.
Ray Lemmens
Ray Lemmens is a Belgian dancer, performing artist and creator.
Manuel Kiros Paolini
Manuel Kiros Paolini (Italy 1990) is a freelance dancer, choreographer and theatre-maker based in The Netherlands. He worked, among others, with Maura Morales, MiR dance Company, Hendrik Aerts.
Lena Niessen
Lena Niessen (DE) is a Netherlands based freelance dancer, she studied contemporary dance at the ArtEZ University of the Arts, which she concluded in 2024 after an internship with the Poetic Distasters Club (Groningen,NL).
Olympia Kotopoulos
Originally from Sydney, Australia, Olympia is a freelance artist and co-director of Groningen-based ShELFISH Productions, as well as a performer, creator & assistant working with multiple European companies and creators over the last 10 years.
Ser Sebico
Inspired by a deep connection with breath and internal sensations, Ser’s approach to movement produces performances that blend abstract concepts with emotional depth.
Nik Rajšek
Nik Rajšek (1993, Slovenia) began his dance education in 2007 at the Art Gymnasium for Contemporary Dance in Ljubljana, continued his studies at the Amsterdam University of the Arts – Modern Theatre Dance program (graduating in 2015), interned with Club Guy and Roni’s Poetic Disasters Club, has worked with Ann van den Broek’s company WArd/waRD since 2015, and in 2025 began a three-year development trajectory at Station Noord to explore his own artistic voice and redefine what dance means to him.
