2024
11th International Mentorship with Julian Hetzel
All Inclusive, photo: Robin Junicke
ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL MENTORSHIP
Pan Pan is delighted to welcome Julian Hetzel as a mentor for 2024 to work with five performance makers based in Ireland to develop early-stage ideas for contemporary performance projects.
This is a one-on-one mentorship programme in which each participant will have four mentorship sessions with Julian (two online and two in Dublin) and each of the selected participants will receive a bursary of €2,200 to help them set aside dedicated time to work on their ideas. We will also offer some travel subsidy to each artist to help them to see relevant work internationally. Previous participants have used the subsidy to see work in Brussels, Ghent, Groningen, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Vienna, Paris, New York, London, Bristol, Edinburgh and Istanbul.
This is the eleventh edition of the International Mentorship programme which Pan Pan initiated in 2012. The previous mentors have been Kirsten Delholm of Hotel Pro Forma (Denmark), Viviane De Muynck of Needcompany (Belgium), Tim Crouch (UK), Stewart Laing of Untitled Projects (UK), Anna-Sophie Mahler of CapriConnection (Germany), Johanna Freiburg of She She Pop/Gob Squad (Germany/UK), Kelly Copper of Nature Theater of Oklahoma (USA), Terry O’Connor of Forced Entertainment (UK) and Susanne Kennedy (Germany). The programme is a way of re-engaging with the legacy of the Dublin International Theatre Symposium that Pan Pan ran from 1997-2001 – an event where theatre and performance makers were at the core, and where learning from each other was a key focus.
Pan Pan’s International Mentorship is funded by the Arts Council. Dublin Theatre Festival and Goethe Institut are the 2024 mentorship partners.
MEET THE MENTOR
Photo by Lilian Van Rooij
Julian Hetzel works as a performance maker, visual artist and musician. He creates performative experiences for theatres and galleries that have a political dimension and a documentary approach. His works are produced and presented internationally.
Julian Hetzel is born in the Black Forest (DE), currently based in Amsterdam (NL). He studied at Bauhaus University Weimar (DE) with a focus on visual communication. In 2013 he graduated from DasArts Amsterdam, an artistic research laboratory for new forms of theatre and performing arts. Hetzel is a founding member of the electro pop band Pentatones and he performed with the group until 2016. Between 2014-2016 Hetzel was associated artist at SPRING Performing Arts Festival Utrecht. Since 2014, Hetzel has collaborated with Frascati Theater Amsterdam as a local co-producer. In 2016, Hetzel established Stichting Ism & Heit in Utrecht to realise and produce his artistic work under the label Studio Julian Hetzel. In 2017, “The Automated Sniper” received the VSCD-Mimeprijs. Since 2018 Hetzel works in close collaboration with the Gent based art center CAMPO (BE). Their first joint production “All Inclusive” (2018) has been selected for the Nederlands Theaterfestival 2019. In 2019 Hetzel presented three works at the Venice Biennale Teatro. The performance Installation “SELF” has been selected as the Dutch National entry at the Prague Quadrennial in 2019. Since 2021 Studio Julian Hetzel receives structural funding from the city of Utrecht and Fonds Podium Kunsten.
Selection of presentations:
Venice Biennale del Teatro (IT), Steirischer Herbst Graz (AT), Theater der Welt Mannheim (DE), Impulse Theater Festival (DE), Santarcangelo Festival (IT), Brut Vienna (AT), Espacios Revelados Buenos Aires (ARG), Adelaide Festival (AU), Kaai Theater Brussels (BE), Vooruit Gent (BE), Biennale Bern (CH), Belluard Festival Fribourg (CH), Quadrennial Prague (CZ), Spielart-Festival Munich (DE), Festival Theaterformen Hannover (DE), Theater der Welt Mannheim (DE), Saal Biennale Tallinn (EST).
MEET THE PARTICIPANTS
Amanda Feery is a composer working with acoustic, electronic, and improvised music, having written for chamber and vocal ensembles, film, theatre, and opera. Recent projects include A Thing I Cannot Name, an opera film commissioned by Irish National Opera with libretto by Megan Nolan, and My Year of Rest and Relaxation, commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra.
Eftychia Spyridaki (Effie) is a theatre/performance maker from Greece. She was Dead Centre’s Associate Artist for 2022. She is the co-founder of Common Crow Theatre. She is interested in the intersection between real cases of social injustice and ancient greek poetry through collaborative storytelling. Her practice is informed by her volunteer work with the refugee community and the elderly.
Ró Stack is a writer and theatre maker creating contemporary work that plays with form, text and humour. She creates fragmented and disrupted narratives that reflect our increasingly distracted way of life, while simultaneously exploring inactivity and silence as an antidote to the relentlessness of doing. Themes include activism, disorder, feminism, disillusionment and productivity.
Ikenna Anyabuike, a Nigerian-Irish artist, excels as an actor, writer, musician, and assistant dramaturg. Recognized for his diverse talents, he's received awards and grants for his performances, poetry installations, and original playwriting. Ikenna's work embodies a commitment to transformative and Afro-surrealism, influenced by luminaries such as Suzan Lori-Parks and Wole Soyinka.
Colm Higgins works between theatre, creative documentary film, and experimental music. Their theatre practice includes text, costume, sound, food, and various kinds of non-dramatic performance within non-traditional spaces and production structures. Recently they presented a hybrid film/theatre/music performance, The Birdwatchers Trip to Alpha Centauri at Dublin Fringe Festival.
Mount Average, photo: Antoine Serra
All Inclusive, photo: Robin Junicke
SPAfrica, photo: Anouk Maupu