Workshop: Ness Roque

Workshop Info.

Date｜2025/11/10 (Mon.) - 11/14 (Fri.) 
Language of Instruction｜English
 

Workshop Description

Critical Toolkit for Artists: Research, Collaboration, and Community-based work
 
In this workshop, different tools and methods are used to engage in research-based projects and community-based works, as well as in interdisciplinary and intercultural collaborations. This workshop is a mini laboratory for exploring how we can turn a critical eye towards our own work and explore deeper questions in our creative practice. It is ideal for actors and performance-makers who have seeds of ideas they want to develop or are curious about themes of gender and feminism, post-colonialism and decoloniality, and how they can inform their performance practice.

About the Artist

Actor, dramaturg and educator

Born in 1991, Angeles City, Philippines. Ness works across theater, film, and advocacy-based projects.  She earned an MA in Global Arts: Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices from the Tokyo University of the Arts through the MEXT Scholarship Grant. Her research work focuses on performance autoethnography and international art collaborations. 

She is a member of Salikhain Kolektib, an interdisciplinary collective integrating art, research, and community engagement. In 2022, the collective participated in documenta fifteen (Kassel) as part of Gudskul Collective Studies. 

Since 2023, she has been touring internationally with Japanese contemporary theater company chelfitsch, performing in Toshiki Okada's "The Window of Spaceship 'In Between'" (Tokyo, Kyoto, Wuzhen, Brussels, Seoul, Paris). Her dramaturgical work includes Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) and Kyoto-based theater company BRDG's collaboration, "Sari-Sali: Portal Cafe" (Manila, 2024).  

She also played the lead in Alfian Sa'at's "The Optic Trilogy: A Play Reading" (Bangkok International Performing Arts Market 2019) and co-directed "unversed smash" with choreographer and visual artist Osamu Shikichi (Tokyo Festival 2021). 

Notable film performances include leading roles in Raya Martin's "How to Disappear Completely" (MoMA 2017, Locarno 2013) and "Now Showing" (Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2008).

For more information: www.nessroque.com