120SQM DRESS

Thommy Kraft received a grant to develop 120SQM DRESS: a visual essay, that covers the entire stage in textile, blurring its boundaries, allowing for a soft space to emerge, one that offsets the rules of gender and socialization – at least for a sweet moment, long enough to get lost in it. There is more to be learned from wearing a dress for a day than there is from wearing a suit for a lifetime.

Within their practice, Thommy is constantly searching to combine elements of visual and physical theatre to create hybrid forms that consist of moving bodies and animated material. The empty space as a starting point, they often work with stage-consuming scenography in order to research their potential to transform and/or queer the given space. Thommy has a background in Visual Theater and Puppetry which they studied at the State School for Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, Germany. Before graduating in 2023 with the piece CRUSHIN’ REAL HARD, they spend the last year of their studies as an ERASMUS student at the Mime School at the Academy for Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam.