PROJECTS & EXPERIENCES
1991 Sets up music-band ASTYNOMIA with Chilean friend Claudio Encina for National Dutch youth art competition Kunstbende. won first prize in regional preliminary round with song Blythe Spirit and performed at final in Vredenburg Music-centre, Utrecht. In 1992 Antillian guitarist Werner Kwas Joined the band. Composition Myth across times won 3rd place in Kunstbende '92.

1993 Founded theatre company MOSACT in Maastricht with Marcel Harmsen. Performed 'Another Moon Called Earth' by Tom Stoppard with Jeroen Van Kesteren and soprano Melinda Hughes at the Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies (FEATS) in Antwerp, May 1993. Nominated for 'Best Supporting Actor' award.
Won 3rd prize at Kunstbende '93 as Aim on Ytsa, parodizing several kinds of cliché music forms into one song, Slapheads' Soliloquoy.

1994 As part of an International Scholar Exchange visited the Zimbabwe Association of Community Theatre (ZACT), attending a 10 day Training of Trainers workshop in Harare. Made good contacts with several Community Theatre artists & organizers.

Set up the New Breed Tulips project with Choreographer Jolanda Spoel in Utrecht, creating a cross-cultural Dance-act for a peace festival in Israel. NBT was a depiction of the current youth community in the Netherlands, the fact that 'ethnic' Dutch as well as Morrocan, Antillian, Surinam or Asian youth live together in one hybrid society, retaining their cultural heritage aswell as creating a new one. The dance Element became a combination of 'stepping' (with origins in African Tambu & Gumboot) on wooden cloggs and Jazz-dance. The music composed by ASTYNOMIA also brought in some Arabic influences into the funk-groove. Element was never performed because of the increasing dangers in Israel, the festival was called off.

1995 March-May. For the International Theatre & Education returned to Zimbabwe to work with ZACT for three months. In Southern Matebeleland, working for a month in the colliery community of Hwange with two community theatre companies and one Imbube Song & Dance group, Black Spiders, comparable to South Africa's Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Organised a free mini-festival on World Theatre Day to Promote the groups activities in the community, the first performance of the group in the local colliery theatre.
In Zaka, Masvingo province, with three Community Theatre groups (recently combined as Tauya Theatre Movers headed by Laphious Huruva) developing and directing plays on the Economic Structural Adjustment Program, Aids awareness and thieving, but also learning songs and dances, even developing a new dance with the basic choreography of NBT Element, and some comic sketches. these where all performed on the specially created Zvakanaka Nyama Day before local community and politicians.
Also introduced to the great diverse music of Southern Africa, Thomas Mapfumo, Andy Brown & The Storm, Mhepo and Zaire's Real sounds of Africa.

1996 January-March. Adapted and directed the play 'Hapgood' by Tom Stoppard for the International Theatre & Education course External Directing Project in Athens, Greece. Worked with students of Campus Arts & Sciences college in Kifissia. Inspired by Robert Wilson's Theatre of Vision (Einstein on the beach, Dr. Faustus lights the lights, The black rider) the accent of this production was more on the visual and musical aspects rather than text. Theme's like quauntum theories, double-identities and defected Russian spies where packaged in a game of shadows and silhouette's in sounds of Phillip Glass and the St. Petersburg quartet.
April. Return to Zimbabwe to host a workshop on The multi-character actor in improvised storytelling near Bulawayo for ZACT. visited the Tauya Theatre Movers in Zaka and performed with them at the local independance day celebrations.
June. Performed Anton Chekhov's The Anniversary with Kroatian director Mislav Brecic, as MOSACT at FEATS '96. This production won the adjudicator's discretionary award for innovation, and the overall third award.
November. Together with Claudio Encina developes the Visual desing and decoration for the 1996 Music Nights Maastricht, a daughter of the North Sea Jazz Festival. This included computer animations from scanned sketches and artists' photographs projected on a wide screen above the audience.
December. The WACCI foundation (World Association of Creative Children International) is founded by Marcel Harmsen, Marq Riley & Jitske Kramer. The aim of the foundation is to give children in difficult situations, anywhere in the world, the chance to act out their fantasies, fears, problems and ideas through theatre, and thereby improve their own and others' situation. The WACCI foundation also supports independant, local projects which help children in difficult situations.

1997 January-may. Meets Pianist and Composer Glenn Corneille. Writes first play, MILONGA de Jav'. Directs and designs this performance, with Glenn Corneille's Jazz Trio as an integral part of it. The trio developed the music, apart from Luna by Astor Piazzola. MILONGA is three sketches with no seeming connection, but then repeated in a different order. The first three are the deja-vu equivalents of their real life counterparts, the last three. A story of commitment to family or lover (free life) is developed within. Kroatian actor Karlo Severdija plays the lead part of Brady, Steven Groenen plays Francescoli, Marcel Harmsen Ghandi and young Paulo, Albert Riley Freud, Aristotle on video projection and old Paulo. The production won the adjudicators award for creative use of sound, lighting and music at FEATS '98, and mark 8 out of 10 for the Theatre & Education course Graduation Directing Project in september 1997.
March. The WACCI foundation participates during the Annual Nederland Bekent Kleur (Netherlands Acknowledges Colour) anti-racism manifestation in Amsterdam. by means of small 'conscience' acts with local children, WACCI draws attention to it's activities and receives national media coverage.
May-June. The WACCI foundation is asked by secondary school De Schakel in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, to select a project for funds raised by the school. Harmsen & Kramer bring the funds to the Pat The Child project in Uganda, run by Mr. Zziwa Livingstone. Together with the mainly orphaned children, a theatre production is created about their personal situation and the production is performed in and around their local village. New teaching materials and are aquired from the funds, in aid of the childrens developement.
Oktober. Together with Claudio Encina organises the first JMY P.ART.Y in Maastricht . Live performances by Glenn Corneille's Jazztricked Treaty, soul singers Ayesha and special guest Robert Walker. Together with DJ Marco Haarmans from Amsterdam (Roxy, it) and integrated computer animations this becomes an exemplary performance party on the basis of Jazz music, an impulse dance party.
November Designs the visuals and programme for Glenn Corneille's first major concert in Venlo, The Netherlands, using double slide-screens and video projector. Also designs the websites for Glenn Corneille and Marks & Kampstra Café, Maastricht, including Real Audio sound files and Chat café.

1998 February. Organises second JMY Dance p.art.y. Performs with J-Trips (featuring DJ Marco & Suzan Ehrens) Drum'n'Bass covers of Message in a botlle and Paul Simon's The Cool, Cool river. Music includes Roni Size, Adam F, Alex Reece and Buckshot LeFonque. Once again, integrated computer animations by Claudio Encina.
March. Concept design, organisation and performance of the AIESEC BENIBRITS '98 congress opening ceremony, including presentation hosts, talk show and audio-visual theatricality. Total show duration: 2. hours
The WACCI foundation is asked to take active part in the 1998 Nederland Bekent Kleur manifestation in the Beurs van Berlage. Poetry-writing workshops and readings with children are held and information is provided about past and future projects. Marq Riley leads the central discussion forum about racism and the multi-cultural society with delegates of the political youth parties.
May-August. The WACCI foundation is asked again to select a project for secondary school De Schakel's fund raising day. With help from Vasiliki Hatzigeorgali a project is selected in Athens, where a small congregation of the Missionaries of Charity provides shelter, food and lessons to women and children refugees from Iraq and Albania. In August a team of 4 WACCI members hosts activities for one week with the refugee children, dances and songs are rehearsed for presentation at a party for the other refugees. New double beds, matrasses, tiles for sanitary facilities, soup kitchen and classrooms are bought for the centre, as well as learning material and toys.

1999 January. Moves to Greece to work with On Stage music productions as production assistant and tour assistant with Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Cesaria Evora, Giannis Kotsiras & Dimitris Bassis.
November Joins Maria Constantinidis in setting up liveCircuit soundagents, an international artist booking agency for young groove based jazz artists as Tony Remy, Cameron Pierre, Glenn Corneille, Glaucus Linx and Sanctuary.

2000 organises two concerts at the House of Arts, Athens, withJazzical meetings between Glenn Corneille Trio, Takis Barberis and Glaucus Linx, with special appearance by Stella Georgiou on Violin.
September co-organises the big chill Naxos 2000 week from 26th September-3rd October.