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Artists in Residence 2003-2026
Performing Arts

Artists are grouped into six main disciplines. This page focuses on Performing Arts.

In this section performing arts includes actors, dancers, choreographers, theatre makers, performance artists and other live performers. Artists whose principal discipline is music or sound art are listed under Music and Sound Art.


The other disciplines are presented on separate pages:
  • Visual Arts
  • Literature
  • Music and Sound Art
  • Film, Media & Digital Arts
  • Interdisciplinary & other

• Phyllis Akinyi — (Denmark, Sweden; dancer)
• Eva Layla Akiska — (The Netherlands; actress)
• Idalotta Backman — (Finland, Denmark; actor)
• Ruth Baettig — (Switzerland; performer)
• João Bandeira — (Portugal; actor)
• Kim Bari — (South Korea; dancer and poet). See also Barinamo. 

• Stephanie van Batum — (The Netherlands; actress)
• Karen Bernard — (USA; performance artist)
• Elsa Cham's — (Portugal; dancer)
• Tania Chita — (Portugal; actor)
• Vera Cruz — (Angola, Portugal, Cape Verde; actor)
• Nora van Dam — (The Netherlands; actress)
• Anilson Eugénio — (Portugal; actor)
• Ruby Fiedler — (Australia; multimedia artist)
• Benvindo Fonseca — (Mozambique, Portugal; actor)
• Paul Godwin — (USA; performer)
• Anaísa Guerreiro — (Portugal; light designer)
• Jil Guyon — (USA; performer)
• Andrea Hackl — (Austria, The Netherlands; dancer, choreographer)
• Mauro Hermínio — (Portugal; actor)
• Karen Kerkhoven — (Australia; choreographer)
• Jaakko Kiljunen — (Finland; actor)
• Jee Won Kim — (South Korea; dancer)
• Martine de Kok — (Belgium; multimedia artist)
• Frans van Lent — (The Netherlands; performance artist)
• Tathiana Lobo — (Brazil, Portugal; dancer)
• Paola Lopreiato — (Italy; performance artist)
• Gio Lourenço — (Angola, Portugal; actor)
• Sara Machado da Graça — (Portugal; costume designer)
• Daniel Martinho — (Angola, Portugal; actor)
• Fábio Moreira — (Portugal; actor)
• Marian Mudder — (The Netherlands; actress)
• Namo Jungmin — (South Korea; dancer and performance artist. See also Barinamo.
• Diana Niepce — (Portugal; actor)
• Susana Nunes — (Portugal, Finland; actor)
• Aili Ojalo — (Estonia, Finland; scenographer)
• Raphaëlle Oskar — (Croatia, Germany; actor)
• Nantia Papatheodorou — (Greece; actor)
• Stephan Pelton — (USA; dancer)
• Eeva Liisa Puhakka — (Finland; mixed media artist)
• Maj Rafferty — (Denmark; filmmaker, theatre director, video artist)
• Lucília Raimundo — (Portugal; choreographer, actor)
• Ulla Raitio — (Finland; actor)
• Sofia Ramos — (Portugal; actor)
• Igor Reinhart — (Switzerland; sculptor, actor)
• Carla Ribeira — (Portugal; dancer, choreographer)
• Saaya Hitomi — (Japan; video artist, performer)
• André Salvador — (Portugal; actor)
• George Sanchez — (USA; performance artist)
• Nuno Santos Solares — (Portugal; actor, sound technician)
• Miira Sippola — (Finland; theatre director). See also Divina Commedia.
• Zia Soares — (Angola, Portugal; actor, art director)
• Vicente de Sá — (Portugal; actor)
• Yuko Takeda — (Japan, Finland; actor)
• Zofia Tomczyk — (Poland; performer)
• Carolina Trigo — (Slovenia, Argentina, Finland, USA; performer)
• Neusa Trovoada — (Angola, Portugal; costume designer)
• Tuomas Tulikorpi — (Finland; actor)
• Binete Undonque — (Guinea-Bissau, UK; actor)
• Marcus Veiga — (Cape Verde, Portugal; actor)
• Rob van Weegen — (The Netherlands; actor)
• Nádia Yracema — (Portugal; actress)
• Iosef Yusupov — (Tajikistan, USA; set designer)
• Yelena Yusupova — (Russia, USA; theatre costume designer)
• Isabél Zuua — (Portugal; actress)

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  • HOME
  • artists in residence 2003-2026
    • browse by artistic discipline >
      • visual arts
      • literature
      • music and Sound Art
      • performing arts
      • film, media & digital arts
      • interdisciplinary, science & other
      • marble related projects >
        • introduction
        • marble project for Evora 2027
        • marble for sculpting and more
        • photo projects
        • performing in quarries >
          • divina commedia 2.0
    • browse by alphabet >
      • Residents A-D
      • Residents E-G
      • Residents H-L
      • Residents M-P
      • Residents R-T
      • Residents U-Z
    • Residents and projects (2004-2026) >
      • Residents 2026 until May
      • residents 2025
      • residents 2024
      • residents 2023
      • residents 2022
      • residents 2021
      • residents 2020
      • residents 2019
      • residents 2018
      • residents 2017
      • residents 2016
      • residents 2015
      • residents 2014
      • residents 2012, 2013
      • residents 2004-2011
      • selected highlights >
        • Ingrid Simons
        • Luis Branco
        • Sandra Trujillo
        • Antonio Tavares
        • Erika Dahlen
        • Barinamo
        • Jonathan Roson
        • Dasha Sitnikova
        • Scott Sherk & Pat Badt
  • Cultural Events 2003-2026
    • Exhibitions 2016-2026
    • Exhibitions 2005-2014
    • Concerts and soundscapes
    • Theatre, Dance & Performances
    • Master classes & Workshops
  • The Residence
    • apartments and studios
    • History of the house
    • man-made traces in nature (50 -5000 yrs)
    • megalithic monuments
    • Local climate
    • Nature around the house
    • welcome; a practical guide
    • Codes of Conduct
    • How do I get to OBRAS?
    • (Obras Holland)
  • CONTACT
  • (Newsletter)