Residencies

Anne van der Vegt (regie), Noah Janssen (regie), David Roos (theater) en QiQi van Boheemen (performance) leerden elkaar kennen op de Toneelacademie in Maastricht. Vanuit hun verschillende disciplines maakten ze tijdens hun studie de voorstelling Patria Pápa. 

Voor hun residentie bij Frascati Producties steken Anne, Noah, David en QiQi opnieuw de koppen bij elkaar en zetten ze verdere stappen richting het vormen van een collectieve artistieke identiteit. Aan de basis van deze identiteit ligt de uitgesproken beeldentaal, het aangezette spel en de thematiek van geweld en moraliteit. 

In hun onderzoek gaan ze op zoek naar het spanningsveld tussen de mens en diens lichaam. 

Reza Mirabi is an artist whose work spans ecological and socio-political projects in Europe and the SWANA region. With a Fine Arts degree from the University of Mumbai (2012) and an MA in Choreography from DAS Choreography, Amsterdam (2021), his practice is rooted in the belief that every place, being, and material inherently tells a story.

Reza seeks different forms of listening as a way to engage in conversations with the (im)mediate world—verbal and non-verbal, embodied and cosmic—to weave us into more-than-human narratives. Amidst today’s unbearable political, social, ecological, and psychological collapse, Reza seeks ways and moments to remind each other of the imaginary.

The Brazilian theatre-maker, performer and writer Carolina Bianchi graduated in 2022 from the master's programme at DAS Theatre (Academy of Theatre and Dance). Her work moves between theater and performance. By combining references from literature, news, film and painting, she is always looking for an ongoing confrontation with everything that seems to be an absolute truth. 

Together with her collective CARA DE CAVALO, Carolina started Cadela Força (Bitch Strength) in 2023, a triptych about femicide coproduced by Frascati Producties. In the summer of 2023, the first part of this series premiered: Cadela Força - Capítulo 1: A noiva e o boa noite cinderela / Chapter 1: The Bride And The Good Night, Cinderella. For this piece, she was recently nominated for a Theo d’Or for the most groundbreaking stage performance and selected for the Official Jury Selection of the Nederlandse Toneeljury.

After obtaining the mime bachelor's degree at the AHK in 2015, performance and sound artist Isadora Tomasi graduated from the DAS Theater master's program in 2023. Isadora's work shifts between movement practices, writing, singing, music and sound within the performance setting. 

Her practice is rooted in collaboration and in building conversations between communities of artists. They collaborate with several international performing artists in Amsterdam and abroad. 

Isadora's work has previously been shown in various national and international performing arts institutions. They work in parallel as sound designer and technician and they also release music under the artist name YKA. 

Actress and theater maker Femke Arnouts graduated from the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance in 2017. Her work is characterized by her self-written texts, physical performance style, and love for absurdism.

She previously created De meeste dingen huilen niet (2019) and Deze plek bestaat niet (2021). Now, she is presenting her third production, Dat Gat, in collaboration with actress Jip Smit.

 
Venuri Perera is a choreographer, performance artist, curator, and teacher from Colombo, Sri Lanka. She graduated from DAS Theatre in 2022. By researching the power dynamics of viewing, she aims to destabilize the way we perceive the 'other.'

Eisa Jocson is a contemporary choreographer and dancer from the Philippines, recognized in many countries as one of the most charismatic choreographers of her generation. In her performances, she probes the many forms of labor abuse involving Filipino workers. She always seeks the silver linings in serious subjects and exposes stereotypes about Filipinos and Southeast Asian communities in general.

Sinem Kavus is actrice en maker. In 2017 studeerde zij af van de acteursopleiding aan de Academie voor Theater & Dans in Amsterdam. In datzelfde jaar maakte zij haar eerste soloperformance I Used To Be Snowhite But I Drifted bij Frascati in het kader van Fraslab. Sinem heeft zich de afgelopen jaren ontwikkeld als maker en acteur in zowel theater als film. Als maker creëert zij performances die gaan over haar ervaringen in de wereld als vrouw en de zoektocht naar hoe mens te zijn.

Wojciech Grudziński (PL, 1991) is a Polish artist, choreographer and dancer based in Amsterdam. What he explores in his work are the in-between and interdisciplinary spaces, queerness, and embracing diversity. His practice is based on performative freedom and investigating implicit or explicit power dynamics in theater and choreography. He graduated from the Warsaw State Ballet School and the faculty of contemporary dance at the CODARTS in Rotterdam. Throughout his Master Studies at DAS Theatre (2021-2023), Grudziński explored the bowing gesture and its ambiguous meanings. As a performer he worked with many artists, including Dries Verhoeven, Ben J. Riepe, Marta Ziółek, Maria Magdalena Kozłowska and Ula Sickle. In February 2024, Wojciech presented his performance BOW A STUDY at Frascati. 

David Roos (Amsterdam, 2000) graduated in acting from Toneelacademie Maastricht institute of performative arts in 2022. Since then he has lived in Brussels, and he is currently studying philosophy. His work is language-based and philosophical. Drawing on the literary and artistic canon, he connects and deconstructs classic source material to form a personal, contemporary story. His style is transparent, in the tradition of groups such as Maatschappij Discordia. On the basis of this transparency, he attempts to create a transcendental theatrical experience. Recurring themes in this are language and meaning, seeming and reality, the Holocaust and identity. He is always on the lookout for ways to radically interrogate his own certainties.