Faido Company is an Amsterdam based,  interdisciplinary  company with the artistic director Dorit Weintal.

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We create art, integrating theatre and other physical performance techniques with an interest pulled from literature, cinema, philosophy, and science. 

 

Our credo is a commitment to creative exploration of dance and dialogue between different artistic disciplines and cultural traditions.

The work aims to recreate awareness, drawing on different creation methodologies, blending abstraction with naturalism, the fantastic with the grotesque.

 

Notions of perception, cognition and emotional/mental imagery are intrinsic in our working methodologies. As such, is the collaboration with the neuro-psychologist Dr.V. Wijnen for the living network production (2011).  

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Our work explores dialogue—between humans, bodies, and nature.

We investigate connection: How do we trust? What is home? What does it mean to be in-between?

We examine pain:
• Inward pain—how neurological disorders shape movement, perception, and expression.
• Outward pain—the social weight of growing up in war, seeking transformation and healing.

Pain disrupts connection yet demands it. Through our work, we make pain visible, tangible, and communal.
 

We explore the intersection of art and ecology, emphasizing nature’s healing power through The Arboreal Projects, an ongoing ecological art initiative.

Our work is concerned with cultural frameworks, addressing urgent themes in contemporary society, embodying our responses to local culture and the impact of changing times on the daily lives of people.

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We work in different communities through our international cultural exchange projects, teaching and presenting performances, video art, experimental films, in theatres, public spaces and on locations, in Europe, South Korea, South East Asia, the Middle East, Israel, South Africa.

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Upcoming projects:

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The multimedia dance performance Me In Blue explores the profound impact of war on the body, drawing audiences into the final moments of Virginia Woolf’s life. (2025-2026).

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Trees and Us is a dance-installation performance exploring the synergy between trees and humans, focusing on Oosterpark’s ecosystem and its transformative effect on the body and mind. This initiative began with The Grove of Synergy in Aegina, Greece, as part of The Arboreal Projects.

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Since 2003, we have been dedicated to exploring interculturalism, interfaith dialogue, and the sense of belonging—focusing on the periphery and the impacts of marginalization, particularly in the Middle East. Collaborating with Palestinian performers, our work has been showcased internationally, including at the Acco Theater Center and Acco Festival in Israel (2004), Halle, Germany (2005), the Musho Festival in Durban, South Africa (2007-2009), the Masrahid Arabic Solo Festival (2008), Dancing on the Edge Festival in the Netherlands (2009), Jerusalem Visual Theater (2005), Amsterdam’s Melkweg Theater (2007), and District 6 Theater in Cape Town, South Africa (2008).

This exploration continued in South Africa, where we performed and led workshops in Cape Town’s townships, Jikeleza, District 6 Theater, and Durban from 2007 to 2009.

 

Between 2011 – 2013 the company has presented work in South Korea. (see Weintal CV).

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Since 2014 a main focus of the company is the exploration of filming technologies and cinematic vocabulary with relation to the moving body.

Such is the video art / dance film research The Inhabitant, supported by Dansmakers

 

In 2015 the company started exploring the protagonist of the new coming creation - Pretext through a footage taken in PAF,   St. Erme with the collaboration of Simone Giacomini (IT/NL).

 

This research has paved the way to starting the new creation of a multimedia dance production PRETEXT “This Solo is a pretex for a performance about observation, (perception), perspective and the big question: What's going on? “ taking place in different countries in Europe between 2016 – 2017. The work was finalized in 2018 with PRETEXT artistic team - a collboration between The Netherlands, France, Italy.

In Norway Faido presented a film, documenting the journey of a personage. The project was chosen to participate in the inauguration of Glasslaven Arts Center with the presence of her majesty, the queen of Norway.

 

In 2017 the creation process focuses on the impact of the camera on the body and its resonance on audience's perception, creating two 60 seconds video dance inspired by Pretext project - washing machine and corridor for international 60 seconds video competitions.

 

In 2018 creation and performing Donna nel presente.

 

Between 2019 - 2021 the multidisciplinary project The path of trust | The Path of Paradox as part of AFK Trust trajectory (2019 - 2020).

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2022 - the creation of Zomer,  the first phase of the future dance opera In Between Summers.

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