Residencies
Our residencies are open to Netherlands-based creatives from all performing arts disciplines. They are aimed mainly at artists who have already taken significant steps in developing their own artistic signature. Your research will span several weeks, after which there will be an opportunity to show your ‘work in progress’.
In our selection of candidates, we take into consideration diversity within the programme and our group of resident artists as well as the feasibility of your proposal.
To apply, please send us a short proposal (no longer than an A4 page) or video application (no longer than 5 minutes), your CV/portfolio and/or your website in an email directed to artistiek@frascatitheater.nl, for the attention of Francesca Lazzeri (dramaturg with Frascati Producties).
The application deadline for residencies starting January 2025 is 1 October 2024.
In the spring of 2024, we offered residencies to Isadora Tomasi, Carolina Bianchi, Noah Janssen, Femke Arnouts, David Roos, Wojciech Grudziński, Venuri Perera & Eisa Jocson, Sinem Kavus, amongst others.
Residency September 2024
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.
Cadela Força - Capítulo II
During her residency at Frascati Producties in September 2024, Carolina will conduct research for the second part of her Cadela Força triptych, Chapter II: The Brotherhood. In this part, she delves into the complexity of some 'masculinity pacts', the origins of brotherhood between men and their violent mutual codes that perpetuate rape and sexual violence as part of their vocabulary. The residency will conclude with a presentation and a conversation between Marijn Lems, Carolina, and the performers of Cara de Cavalo. The performance will premiere at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels in May 2025.
produced by Metro Gestão Cultural (Brazil), Carolina Bianchi Y Cara de Cavalo co-produced by KVS Brussels, Theater Utrecht, La Villette - Paris, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Frascati Producties, Wiener Festwochen, Holland Festival- Amsterdam, Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg — Scène européenne, HAU Berlin international management and Diffusion by Metro Gestão Cultural with the support of Ammodo
Residency June 2024
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.
big small otherwise
During her residency at Frascati Producties, Isadora edits her graduation performance big small otherwise, in which the liminal space between the real and the imaginary is explored. Through her research they are exploring and giving expression to a blurred identity versus the simplification of reality.
Using story-telling, music-making, and movement, big small otherwise looks into practices that deconstruct the binary rhetoric, pushing the boundaries of the conservative theatrical conventions. The performance challenges heteronormative narratives and accentuates the importance of fluidity and coexistence. For this residency Isadora is supported by The Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK).
Residency May 2024
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.
Dat Gat
During her residency at Frascati Producties, Femke worked on the performance Dat Gat from mid-April to early May. Anabsurdist play that makes existential questions and dark thoughts tangible in a light and humorous way.
What if 'nothingness' has taken shape and suddenly stands before you? What if you can touch 'nothing,' feel 'nothing'? What do you do then?
Dat Gat premiered at Karavaan and will be performed on October 22 and 23, 2024, at Frascati.
Residencies April 2024
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.
Magic Maids
Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera come from countries known for exporting domestic workers. Magic Maids delves into the European history of witch hunts and their direct consequences on the exploitation of women's labor, particularly domestic work in the Global South, but also in stories surrounding the persecution of labor migrants today. In Magic Maids, the broom is an axis that, through cleaning rituals, bridges the European witch hunts and domestic work, with sweeping as the starting point for countless metamorphoses of the subjugation of female migrant workers.
You can see Magic Maids on Friday, April 19 and 20 at 8:00 PM in Frascati 3.
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.
[uncomfortable silence] (werktitel)
Sinem Kavus legt tijdens haar residentie de basis voor de performance [uncomfortable silence] (werktitel), met als hoofdthema rouw. Ze schrijft een tekst, en gaat op zoek naar een eigen fysieke, muzikale en beeldende taal. Sinem zal werken vanuit vragen als: hoe verandert de eerste ontmoeting met de dood je als mens? Hoe verhoud je je tot jezelf en de wereld wanneer je realiteit omslaat en vervormt door het verlies van een dierbare? Hoe kan rouw en een existentiële crisis theatraal belichaamd worden?
Sinem presenteert haar onderzoek voor [uncomfortable silence] (werktitel) do 25 en vr 26 april in Frascati 4.
Residency March 2024
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.
Threesome
During his residency, Wojciech will work on Threesome (working title), A research on three legendary Polish dancers from the Communist Era: Stanisław Szymański, Wojciech Wiesiołłowski, and Gerard Wilk, legendary Polish ballet dancers from the 1960s to the 1980s, became both admired and derided due to the queerness of their identities. This research aims to unveil the marginalized figures lost in dance history. How to embody Queer Ancestrality?
On Friday 29 March, Wojciech will present his work in progress in Frascati 3.
Residency December 2023
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.
Pygmalion
For his upcoming production Pygmalion (working title), David Roos investigates an impossible desire for beauty that is deeply embedded in western culture, and that pursues us to this day. The grandiosity of a symphony; the white marble of classical sculpture; the filters on a Tinder photo: all of these mask dark desires. Can we really know ourselves if we seek to believe, at any cost, that our souls are pure?
On 5 and 6 January 2024, David Roos presented his work in progress. Pygmalion (working title) premières in July 2024.
Presentations
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Thu 25 Apr ’2420:00FrascatiFrascati 4
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Fri 26 Apr ’2420:00FrascatiFrascati 4
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Fri 19 Apr ’2420:00FrascatiFrascati 3
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Sat 20 Apr ’2420:00FrascatiFrascati 3
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Fri 5 Jan ’2421:00FrascatiFrascati 2
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Sat 6 Jan ’2421:00FrascatiFrascati 2
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