Two Performers Explore Queer Fluidity, Pleasure, and Becoming Through Story, Sound, and Movement
Isadora Tomasi in collaboration with Rita Bifulco & Konstantinos Chatzikypraios
Location: Frascati 2
Dates:
- GENRE: Music theatre, Performance Art, Text theatre
- THEME: Queer Stories, Rituals, The art of losing
- LANGUAGE: English
- Toilet for wheelchair users: yes, Wheelchair accessible: yes
duration of the performance: 1 h
Inspired by queer theorists such as Sara Ahmed, Paul B. Preciado, and Jack Halberstam, big small otherwise explores the concept of “fluidity” within the realm of performance.
In the piece Rita Bifulco and Isadora Tomasi promote a space for grieving, for holding each other’s stories, for staying with the unresolvedness of certain situations and feelings. The performers share both intimate and fictional stories, using the power of imagination to explore pleasure. They weave together text, decomposed choreographies, live music, Dj-sets and transforming into a multiplicity of characters.
The performers invite the audience to join them on a journey of discovery, searching for their ways of confronting the patriarchal gaze and finding the politics of pleasure in expressing, re-imagining and presenting their identities.
Theaterkrant: “Tomasi and Bifulco exude immense love and acceptance toward each other, as if they’ve found in each other the sisters they never had.” Marijn Lems
Biography
Isadora Tomasi is a performance and sound artist based in Amsterdam. A graduate of the DAS Theatre MA (2023) and AHK’s Bachelor’s in Mime, Isadora’s work blends movement, writing, singing, and music. Inspired by queer and feminist theorists like Sara Ahmed and Paul B. Preciado, she challenges dominant narratives and societal expectations. By exploring personal experience and discomfort, Isadora aims to deconstruct systems of supremacy and create spaces for solidarity, believing impactful change often starts at the micro level.
Rita Bifulco is a performance and sound artist based in Amsterdam. She completed her bachelor’s in Mime at AHK, where she also serves as student advisor and teacher. In 2020, she co-founded “Mime fabriek,” a platform for the mime and performance community, organizing residencies and workshops. Rita’s performances explore absence, blending personal memories and mythological elements through movement, sound, and textiles.
Konstantinos Chatsikypraios, aka Koko, is a professionally trained theatre performer from Greece. He pursued an MA in International Dramaturgy at AHK. In September 2024, Koko began performing drag and joined the House of Hopelezz. Koko’s artistic practice explores queer identity, fluidity, and the perception of self. Committed to moving beyond binary frameworks, Koko embraces a fluid, ever-evolving approach to identity.
