Productions

HUNTER – OFF RECORD!!! is the underground offspring of Courtney May Robertson’s award winning theater production HUNTER.

HUNTER is an interdisciplinary performance that critically examines pervasive misogynistic roles assigned to women in three key ‘Body Genres’ in Film: Pornography, Horror and Melodrama. Together with her hyper-realistic life-sized doppelgänger in doll form, Courtney May Robertson weaves a tapestry of images in which the grotesque, (sexual) perversion and emotional excess become triumphant symbols for bodily autonomy and empowerment. In this alternative universe, self-destruction is embraced as a cathartic act of self-preservation.

OFF RECORD!!! is an eclectic space where performance, installation, ritual, and experience truly merge, an ambiance that juxtaposes the aesthetics of a BDSM dungeon with the emotional resonance of an emo girl’s bedroom.

Sad. Horny. Angry. Shamelessly.

OFF RECORD!!! offers audiences a unique, visceral and intimate experience; to witness Courtney’s intricate private preparations, rituals, and aftercare with her silicone doppelgänger from up close.

Duration: 60 min
Language: without words
Age restriction: the show is not recommended for people under 18 years old.

Courtney May Robertson, born in Scotland, is a performer and interdisciplinary maker based in Rotterdam. Courtney graduated from The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts - First Class Honours in Contemporary Dance Performance. Upon graduating she joined Club Guy & Roni’s Poetic Disasters Club in Groningen. Courtney has worked with a number of renowned choreographers across the Netherlands and wider Europe over the last decade.

Since 2017 Courtney has performed in multiple works of Belgian choreographer Jan Martens. In 2021 Courtney began working with Austrian choreographer Florentina Holzinger. First on Festzug, a parade for the opening of the Wiener Festwochen with musician SOAP&SKIN, and later on a large-scale theatre performance, A Divine Comedy, which premiered at Ruhrtriennale in August 2021. Courtney has also performed in works of Connor Schumacher, Maxime Dreesen and soon with Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe.

Alongside working successfully as a performer, Courtney began experimenting with creating her own work in 2015. Between 2015-2019 her small-scale / DIY produced performances were shown at various underground venues in the Netherlands. In 2019 her work entered a theatre for the first time with ‘SUB’; a research project in collaboration with Tharim Cornelisse. Since then she has created three solo works which quickly propelled her to the title of NRC’s ‘Rising Star in Dance 2025’.

Her critically acclaimed work HUNTER was awarded the ‘VSCD Mime / Performance Prize 2024’ at the Netherlands Theater Festival, listed in NRC’s ‘The 10 Best Dance Performance of 2024’ and labeled ‘Critics Choice’ in Theaterkrant.