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In 2025, LOEV premiered! Created in co-production with dance theatre AYA, this dance performance with live music is about love and connection. About liking someone so much you just can’t stand still. About friendship and the desire to belong. This playful performance for ages 8 and up, featuring four dancers and four musicians, shows that love— in all its forms— is stronger than hate.

The virtual opera Metamorphosis is a project by Maat in co-production with De Diamantfabriek, composer Nuno Lobo, and designer Pedro Lobo. The result is a unique performance in which the audience is visually and aurally transported into the world of Kafka, translated into the present. Metamorphosis deals with alienation, isolation, and loss of identity, showing how relevant Franz Kafka’s novella still is today.

This production was created by Maat together with the music ensemble Oorkaan and Jeunesse Wien. In this family performance for ages 3 to 103, Maat takes the audience into a wondrous world of melodies, movements, and images. In this theatrical concert, Maat's musicians move across the stage as performers while playing the music by heart.

No one is too small is a performance about climate change that combines new music, illustrations, lighting design, and scenography. The music and drawings were created from various emotions a person might feel when this topic is brought up. The performance takes you through all these emotions and aims to make the audience reflect, leaving everyone free to form their own story.

Fado, a Portuguese guitar, and a saxophone quartet. Renascer is a collaboration between Maat and guitarist António Carlos Costa. In this project, the Portuguese music genre is revitalized and explored with a unique instrumentation. Songs by the iconic guitarist Carlos Paredes are featured, alongside new works by various composers.

Together with dance theatre AYA, Maat created the performance WILD, an infectious and anarchistic dance theatre show for ages 6 and up. Three dancers share the stage with Maat and throw traditional gender roles overboard. All those ideas about how girls are supposed to behave sneak in at a very young age. These dancers don’t care about that. Nothing neat, quiet, or modest. They choose to be wild, fierce, and unrestrained.