This is Fast Forward. The programme by the Dutch Performing Arts Fund that offers Dutch talent the opportunity to develop their career in an international context. Eleven participants will have the opportunity to work with leading international producers and to present themselves on the international stage. Today we are visiting Jorinde Keesmaat. Thanks to Fast Forward, this opera director from Amsterdam has the opportunity to work in New York. She is supervised by Jim Schaeffer, director of the Center for Contemporary Opera. Today they are discussing their first project: the opera by Louis Andriessen that premiered in the Sawdust theatre, and about the huge amount of opportunities in New York’s creative music scene.

This is Fast Forward. The programme by the Dutch Performing Arts Fund that offers Dutch talent the opportunity to develop their career in an international context. Eleven participants will have the opportunity to work with leading international producers and to present themselves on the international stage. Today we are visiting Itamar Serussi. He is the in-house choreographer of Scapino Ballet in Rotterdam, and in the Fast Forward programme he is working for Balleto di Roma in Italy. His supervisor is artistic leader Roberto Casarotto. Today they are discussing the performance that Itamar is making at Balleto di Roma. And about his ultimate dream: to have his own dance company.

Random Collision is looking for experienced choreographers who are open to collaborate with other choreographers and scientists in the research week from 12 - 20 September.

The application deadline for soloists wanting to participate in the International Classical Music Auditions 2015 is May 1st 2015.

International Theatre Institute ITI is recruiting for the following positions for its headquarters in Shanghai/ China:

To all singers, musicians, composers, actors, artists and so on who engage in experimental work in the musical-theatre genre, the Walpurgis musical-theatre company is offering a 2 to 3-week residence at deFENIKS between May and September 2015, plus the opportunity to present their research/work/project during the 2015 Feniks Festival.