Director, Maker & Performance Artist

[Calendar]

[Photography]

During the night with bright lights. Reflections on a sunny day Reflections on a blue building. Sundown on the streets of Budapest. Sundown during summer in Budapest. Analogue composition. An old grey adventure. Open for interpretation. Blindfolded, but trying to see. Frames of the past. The ephemeral body in search of feeling. The ephemeral body in search of feeling. The ephemeral body in search of feeling. Blue hour in my bedroom. Preparations for decay. Preparations for decay.

[about]

Yoko Haveman (1994, Brazilian/Japanese) is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of theater and film as a choreographer, director, and performer. Her practice is marked by a distinctive visual and physical language in which performance, cinematic composition, and somatic framework converge. Moving between stage and screen, Yoko develops work that is both sensorial and conceptually layered, engaging with themes such as eroticism, ancestral trauma, and the macabre.

A graduate of the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam, Haveman has consistently built a career within the performing arts field, collaborating with established artists and companies including Rauwkost Film, Dansateliers, De Dansers, and Ann van den Broek. These collaborations have informed a practice that is both rigorous and exploratory. 

Yoko’s work is driven by an ongoing fascination with human behavior, taboos, vices, and the ephemeral nature of life. Drawing from philosophy, physical theater, and cinematic techniques, she constructs immersive environments where the body becomes a primary carrier of meaning. Her performances are often intimate yet confrontational, all the while balancing rawness with subjective ugliness, inviting audiences into states of vulnerability and perception. 

Haveman’s body of work includes ‘Paradise Lost’ (2024), ‘Solastalgia’ (2023), and ‘Conundrum’ (2022). Her latest projects, ‘A TRIBUTE TO EVERYTHING THAT BREAKS’ (2026) a theatre production, and ‘NOSEBLEED’ (2026), an arthouse dance film, further expand her interdisciplinary career, continuing her exploration of poetic deconstruction, and the vigorous potential of the body. In 2022, she was nominated for the prestigious Young Swan Award (VSCD) for Most Impressive Performance. 

Image by Esmee Regter

Yoko Haveman shows us dance is an embodied form of expression, emotional openness, and resilience. Her way of expressing the movements helps us understand our identities, then sharp its vale and endure our pain and doubts.
Tzu-Yin Hsu // 2025

[contact]

Yoko Haveman
Freelance Artist
KVK 67077722
Rotterdam, The Netherlands


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Rotterdam, The Netherlands


Email: info@yokohaveman.com

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