THOMAS ANDERSON (he/him/his)
United States
Discipline: Architecture, Multidisciplinary
In Residence: July 10 – August 3, 2023
Thomas Anderson is an artist, architect, and engineer with more than 43 years of experience directing the design and construction of commercial, residential, government, educational, and aviation facilities in the United States and abroad. He was selected as an expert in architecture and urban design by the United Nations and has since led urban designs for several new towns in Asia and a capital city in Africa. Anderson taught Graduate Architecture/Urban Design courses for seven years.
YUNSEO CHOI (she/her/hers)
Republic of Korea, Germany
Discipline: Multidisciplinary Performance, Dance
In Residence: July 10 – August 3, 2023
Yunseo Choi is a Korean dancer and performer based in Germany. In 2016, after studying at the Contemporary Dance School at the Sozo Visions in Motion located in Kassel, Germany, she worked with Israeli choreographer Evangelos Poulinas and performed with his production “Facebook Me” at the Staatstheater Kassel. Afterward, she completed her Diplom at the City Ballet & Dance Pedagogy School Pergel – Ernst in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia. From 2016 to 2020 she worked as a youth dancer at the Youth Tanztheater Ballet Dortmund affiliated Dortmund ballet company with choreographer and director Justo Moret. From February 2021, she is engaged as a professional dancer at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg for a production of Robert Wilson’s “H-100 seconds to midnight.”
AFRA AL DHAHERI (she/her/hers)
United Arab Emirates
Discipline: Visual Art
In Residence: July 10 – August 3, 2023
Afra Al Dhaheri’s work is rooted in her experiences growing up in Abu Dhabi and the wider UAE – a place of recent and rapid change. Working across various mediums including mixed media, sculpture, drawing, painting, installation, photography, and printmaking, she draws out notions of time and adaptation, rigor and fragility.
With each experiment, there is a new phase, each new phenomenon or actualization plucked from her unique vocabulary of references – repetition acts as a method for prolonging time as much as a tool through which to truly experience or realize each stage of a work.
Born in 1988 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Al Dhaheri obtained her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island in 2017 and had her residencies from The Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design in 2014, Porthmeor Studios, St. Ives, Cornwall, UK (2019) and a VIR Viafarini-in-residence in Viafarini, Milan (2022). Al Dhaheri is among the finalists for the Richard Mille Art Prize 2022.
EVELYN DUGAN (she/her/hers)
United States
Discipline: Multidisciplinary Performance, Dance
In Residence: July 10 – August 3, 2023
Evelyn Dugan is an experimental contemporary ballet and modern dancer/choreographer. She was born in NYC and is a German/American dual citizen pursuing a BFA in Dance and BA in Business, Media, and Arts Management at Marymount Manhattan College (2025). She creates through movement-based collaborations, inspired by the legacy of artists before her while working to create her own. As an inaugural member of The Lawrenceville School Dance Collective, she began choreographing and has since choreographed at Marymount Manhattan College, Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts (EMIA), and Bridge for Dance’s Uptown Rising. She trained at Princeton Ballet School under Pamela Levy, Martin Center for Dance with Douglas Martin and Mary Barton, and The Lawrenceville School with Derrick Wilder. She attended intensives at Alonzo King Lines Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, EMIA, and The Graham School on scholarship. She has performed works by David Parsons, José Limón, Gregory Dawson, Karen Gayle, Frederick Earl Mosley, Michiyaya Dance, and Jie-Hung Connie Shiau. She won Food Network’s Chopped Junior in 2016 and continues her passion for culinary arts, film, teaching, and production.
XUETONG CECILIA FENG (she/her/hers)
China, Germany
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
In Residence: July 10 – August 3, 2023
Xuetong Cecilia Feng is a Beijing-born and raised, Berlin-based performance artist. Trained as an architect, she sees making performance as a practice of arranging movements, texts, sounds, objects, and lights in space and time, a controlled environment that is capable of creating spaces for imagination, places of freedom and security where the everyday phenomenon could be perceived differently. She engages with different artistic media for precise expression and tuned experientiality.
CASILDA MADRAZO (she/her/hers)
Mexico
Discipline: Multidisciplinary, Dance
In Residence: July 10 – August 3, 2023
Casilda Madrazo was trained and has worked as a flamenco dancer for many years. She eventually started her own personal research in movement. Her interest in architecture has led her to investigate how places and space correlate with a Present body. In order to deepen that research, she created a laboratory entitled “Katachi: la forma presente” (Katachi: The Present Form) focused, amongst other ideas and concepts, on building Presence in order to create the possibilities of invisible and visible vital Forms.
KATIMARI NISKALA (she/they)
Finland
Discipline: Multidisciplinary, Dance
In Residence: Oct. 25 – Nov. 21, 2023
Katimari Niskala is a performer and theatre artist from Helsinki, Finland. Specializing in movement, physical theatre, and visual arts, Niskala takes a particular interest in combining multiple forms of art in their discipline. Grounded in the techniques of Jacques Lecoq and Robert Wilson, their practice investigates non-verbal communication. Unlearning, deconstructing, and healing are essential thematics to their works. As a pedagogue, they are committed to building safe, mindful spaces.
SORIN PRODEA (he/him/his)
Romania, Germany
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
In Residence: July 10 – August 3, 2023
Sorin Prodea is a Romanian multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. He is interested in exploring the concept of visible and non-visible “fingerprints” – or traces – that are left behind by movements, interactions, and events. Through his practice, Prodea searches and explores those traces and gives them a visual representation. His work has been exhibited in group exhibitions and solo shows in Bucharest, Romania; Brighton and London, UK; and Watermill, US. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Drama, Theatre, and Performance Art from Sussex University and a master’s degree in Fine Arts from Chelsea College London, UK.
JOHAN O. R. STERNER (he/him/his)
Denmark, Norway
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
In Residence: July 10 – August 3, 2023
Johan O. R. Sterner is a former architecture student who seeks design solutions that have a positive impact on our world and daily lives. Through his studies and work, Sterner has built up a broad knowledge of materials as well as a great technical understanding of their inherent abilities and qualities. He became increasingly enamored with the art of scenography through his intensive studies and hands-on experience. Sterner’s constant pursuit of new techniques and strategies is driven by a desire to create designs that not only stimulate the senses but also tell a compelling story and leave a lasting impact on the world.
ISMAEL REYES ROMERO (he/him/his)
Chile
Discipline: Visual Art
In Residence: July 10 – August 3, 2023
Ismael Reyes Romero is a Chilean artist who studied at Colegio La Girouette, Universidad Diego Portales, and Columbus College of Arts and Design. He received the Carácter Award for Artistic Excellence during his time in university and holds a master’s degree in arts education. He has experience in art history, academic research, sculpture, installation arts, and painting. Romero’s work explores the concepts of postcolonialism and hybridity, concepts that are part of his Chilean identity.
ANTHONY ROQUES (he/him/his)
France
Discipline: Dance
In Residence: July 10 – August 3, 2023
Anthony Roques was born in Monaco in 1993. Choreographer, dancer, and performer. He graduated with a Premier Prix at the CNSMD of Paris. Then he joined the Ballet Junior of Geneva. Over the years, he has danced a wide range of repertoire: Andonis Foniadakis, Sharon Eyal, Roy Assaf, Cristiana Morganti. Currently, he is a member of Michel Kelemenis’ Company. Beyond his work as a dancer, Anthony is also a choreographer and performer, collaborating with artists in a range of fields. His triptych entitled “NOUVELLES,” created for the museums of Villefranche city is an example of his research to blend contemporary dance with other art forms. The “FORMATS” project with Jérôme Liniger and Nicolas Jacquette is a meeting with painting and photography. The crossing of the arts, dancing with bodies called “amateurs,” and transmission are at the heart of Anthony’s research. He makes them a reality in his collaboration with the Collectif Non-Surtaxé in “LA DERNIERE.”
DOVYDAS STIMAITIS (he/him/his)
Lithuania, France
Discipline: Dance
In Residence: July 10 – August 3, 2023
Dovydas Strimaitis is a Lithuanian contemporary dance artist, living and working in France. Strimaitis graduated from Codarts University in 2019, after completing his internship year with Jitti Chompee, Jan Martens, and Marina Mascarell. From 2019 to 2022, Strimaitis was a dancer at The National Ballet of Marseille, under the direction of La Horde, where he worked with the choreographers Peeping Tom, Alessandro Sciarroni, Lucinda Childs, Lasseindra Ninja, Tânia Carvalho, Oona Doherty, Alexandre Roccoli, and Dalila Belaza among others.
Strimaitis’ first professional creation was his newest solo “The Art of Making Dances” which premiered in July 2021 in Vilnius, Lithuania. In 2022, Strimaitis’ work “Hairy” was selected among 18 finalists in the Danse élargie competition, co-organized by Boris Charmatz and Théâtre de la Ville. The 10-minute version premiered in June 2022 at the Espace Cardin in Paris. A 20-minute version premiered in October 2022 and was followed by the Dutch tour.
His newest work “A Duet” premiered in March 2023 at the festival ArtDanThé in Théatre de Vanves (Paris).
LYUBA TODOROVA (she/her/hers)
Bulgaria
Discipline: Theatre, Opera
In Residence: July 10 – August 3, 2023
Lyuba Todorova is a theatre director born in 1999 in Varna, Bulgaria. In 2022, she graduated from The National Academy for Theatre and Film in Sofia. During her training, she had the opportunity to be part of the staging process of Robert Wilson’s “The Tempest” at the National Theatre, Sofia (2021). In the following year, she staged her first solo work, adapting for stage Mikhail Bulgakov’s “Theatrical Novel” in Theatre Laboratory Sfumato. In 2023 she assisted in the co-production “Decalogue of Anxiety”, part of the project “Catastrophe” by Union des Théâtres de l’Europe. Currently, she is preparing her next production as a director, based on texts by Georgi Markov, a dissident writer, assassinated for his work. Her additional work includes staging readings of contemporary plays, production, and casting assistance for cinema.
AGATHE VIDAL (she/her/hers)
France
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
In Residence: July 10 – August 3, 2023
Agathe is a French multidisciplinary artist who works on various projects as a performer, assistant, or director. After graduating from the conservatory with a degree in piano, dance, and theater study, she works on projects in which different arts can cross. In parallel to her artistic career, Agathe received her Master’s in anthropology (EHESS, Paris). This articulation between social sciences and art guides part of her own work around modern myths and her interest in contemporary rituals.
She frequently works with choreographer Pierre Rigal and is collaborating this year with composer Jacopo Baboni Schilling as a performer on a project mixing movement sensors and digital music (MAD, Florence). Her first piece (Et Salomé a dit, 2020, Paris) is based on the myth of Salome. She is now developing a project about « secrets,» a performance collecting testimonies. Interested in the transmission and the widening of cultural fields to several types of public, she gives workshops in various settings – in 2023: DMEO project, initiated by the Paris Opera. She also participates in the foundation of the festival Sorties de route (France), in which she works as a cultural programmer.
Artist Photos © Afra Aldhaheri by Rachele Salviolio, Casilda Madrazo by Ana Rosa Fernández, Sorin Prodea by Lovis Ostenrik, Ismael Reyes Romero by Haroldo Hugo Lopez, Anthony Roques by Barbara Lecomte, Johan Sterner by Jørgen Rasumussen, Dovydas Strimaitis by Nicolas Poillat, Lyuba Todorova by Ivan Hristov, Agathe Vidal by Lalo Vidal. All photos are courtesy of the artists.
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