Primary education
- Primary education
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- Primary education
- Primary education
- Primary education
- Primary education
- Primary education
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- Primary education
Not every child has experienced a dance or theatre performance before. What does the smoke from a smoke machine smell like? How does the energy of the performers affect you, and how does it feel when the auditorium suddenly falls completely silent? What about the tiny hairs on your arms standing on end when the music begins? Maybe you don’t understand everything, but you feel it in your gut.
At Maas, you and your class attend a performance in the theatre auditorium, or a production comes to your school.
to attend a performance
You and your class can attend a Maas performance during school hours at the Maaspodium, another theatre in the country, or in your school’s own classroom. In the 2025/2026 school year, Maas presents PRRRT PRRRT FLAP FLAP (grades 1–3), Zeg maar dag (grades 1–4), Skeletje (grades 3–6), and Let's go Barbie (grades 5–8).
theater and dance at school
At school, the experiences of attending a theatre performance serve as the starting point for creating art themselves. What stories are important to the students? Time and again, we are curious: what can we learn from the children? There are already enough places where children do not take center stage - let theatre and dance classes at school be a space where their voices truly matter.
We have a structural collaboration with schools in Rotterdam under the name Maak maar mee, in partnership with KCR and the cultural coaching programme Ken dat ik u kunst?
After-school care
We have been offering theatre and dance lessons at schools for a long time. Since 2022, after-school care has been added: every week, the children from BSO De Grote Machinist visit Maas. The children, all between four and seven years old, are introduced to theatre in the broadest sense of the word. In addition to the lessons, they sometimes watch a run-through of a new performance, take a peek at the technical side, and wander through the offices looking for inspiration. Each season concludes with a presentation for their parents.
This was Stel je voor
In the Stel je voor programme, theatre and dance were combined with visual arts and current themes at school. Arts specialists taught lessons in the classroom in blocks. The goal was not to teach primary school students everything about the arts, but rather to help them learn about themselves and the world around them - and to inspire teachers with creative methods from arts education.
Stel je voor was a programme by Maas, Villa Zebra, and KCR, within the framework of Cultuureducatie met Kwaliteit (Cultural Education with Quality). The programme Maak maar mee is the follow-up to Stel je voor. Soon, you will find an overview of 12 years of Stel je voor here.