Presence to Acting
Breath, not technique. Presence, not method. Acting comes alive

A theatre workshop of presence, posture, movement, body and others in space, games, breath and voice in their many expressions.
Our voices breathe and engage in spoken word, text and poetry.
Our bodies are present in roles and storytelling.
Our practice originates within ourselves: memories, sounds of stones and steps, images of repopulated land, memories of touches, smell of seaweed.
Theatre becomes presence and presence becomes acting. Hence acting becomes the way we navigate our lives.

Roberto Bacchilega has extensive experience in acting, directing and the performing arts.
Roberto has also led numerous theatre workshops in The Netherlands, Italy and Turkey.
He is known for promoting community theatre and participatory theatre as a means of asserting one’s presence anytime, anywhere.
In Greece he has an ongoing collaboration with Δονούσα η εν Θεάτρω and in Italy with Casa Rosa-Compagnia Teatrale Tolvese.
Roberto has been artistic director of the AstaroTheatro in Amsterdam for 18 years.

Geraldine has extensive practice between Latin America and Europe, her artistic work exists at the intersection of acting, durational performance, and academic research. Through a practice-based research methodology, she investigates themes of physical endurance, energy work,  the construction of personal and collective memory turned into theatrical metaphors. Her work materializes through solo performances and group collaborations, interrogating the ways in which freedom of expression can be fostered.

AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37
Amsterdam
www.astarotheatro.com
www.ourfootsteps.nl
Info and Subscription: info@astarotheatro.com

Per Participant Pricing:  
– Standard Rate: € 300 (for 8 sessions + showcase)
– Early Bird: €250 (if booked 4 weeks in advance)
– Solidarity Price: €270–€300 (with valid ID)
Minimum Amount Participants: 8
Payment in advance before start of the workshop:
NL95 INGB0004 7161 96
Stichting “Quelli di Astaroth”, Amsterdam 

AstaroTheatro goes Arabic

Arabic Language for beginners
This is a beginner’s course where participants learn to interact in colloquial Arabic (Levantine spoken dialect).
10 lessons of 1,5 hour. Start Tuesday 30 September 11:00 – 12:30

Classical Arabic Language for advanced students
This course includes reading, writing and conversation around texts and writers that are brought to the class. It is aimed at students who already read text and have developed their Arabic writing.
10 lessons of 2 hours. Start Tuesday 30 September 14:00 – 16:00

Do you have intermediate levels? Are you more interested in specific learnings of Arabic? Are you interested in Classic Arabic?
Please contact us for more information and subscription.
info@astarotheatro.com

Ghoula
@ Bangs Festival 2025

Ghoula is a moment of fluid theatre. It touches performance art, poetry, storytelling, soundscapes and music without being labelled as any these practices.

“you have to learn to fail”
said the leaf as it walks.
this time it comes across
pavement
dust of decomposition
tiny beings too tiny to be named
sewage
and a drop of rain
and a drop of rain
to keep the leaf green
to keep the leaf stem alive.
now they walk together
the leaf and the drop of rain.
the wind blows against them
instead of blowing
against the empire.
but they keep walking
the leaf and the drop of rain.
it’s hard to know by now
the destination
and the outcome of this all.

When you left me. Did you?
Shadow of theater. Did we?

SATURDAY – SEPT. 20 – 19:30
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37 
Amsterdam
Donations for Palestine and Kashmir
www.amsterdambangs.nl

Marx and la Montaña
@BANGS Festival 2025

Who is a true Marxist and who is not? Who lived through the revolution while others only theorized it? Sure, as Karl Marx comes back he takes his chance to clear his name. Pero qué le dirían los revolucionarios latinoamericanos? El Comandante argues that he’s not an opportunist and Concha confronts these men to consider the failed masculinity of all revolutions. Se dice que estos espíritus aparecerán en el centro de Ámsterdam para convivir y debatir, ¿será verdad?

THURSDAY – SEPT. 18 – 20:00 – ASTAROTHEATRO
By AstaroTheatro Colectivo: Roberto of AstaroTheatro, Geraldine of Ser Expresión and Mick & Julienne of Lleca Teatro.
In English and Spanish. – 1 hour
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37 
Amsterdam
Donations to Palestine and Kashmir
www.amsterdambangs.nl

AstaroTheatro is at BANGS Festival
BANGS Festival is at AstaroTheatro

Canción & Comida Centroamericana

Dear friends,
We invite you to the intimate living room theatre of AstaroTheatro for a special dinner on Thursday 11 September, 18.00-21.00. The food – delicious taquitos of various types – will be accompanied by live Central American song & guitar. We are organizing the dinner in celebration of and to raise funds for the première of our new performance “Marx and la Montaña”, which will be presented one week later during BANGS festival.
We much look forward to seeing you there!

Thursday 11 September, 18:00-21:00
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37, Amsterdam
Suggested donation from €5

Tell the Bees
A multidisciplinary workshop of masks, beats and theatre

This workshop combines several aspects of the performing arts. We start by creating masks that fit our emotions and our imagination. We learn to wear those masks and we embody our imagination by using beats and rhythms and by creating awareness of our presence in the space. We practice the basics of theatre: posture, movement, body in space, games, breathing and voice in many of their expressions.
Our practice is sensorial and originates from ourselves: memories, stories, sounds of stones and steps, images of repopulated land, reminiscence of touching, smell of seaweed.

In keeping with AstaroTheatro’s grassroots dedication to participatory theatre, this workshop integrates with the creative process of the theatre performance “Have The Bees Been Told?” which AstaroTheatro is developing alongside the workshop.  Hence it offers the opportunity to the workshop participants to become integral part of the performance with their newly created masks, beats and theatrical contents.

It is highly recommended that participants follow all 5 sessions
Attendance at session 1 and 2 is necessary to be able to join session 3, 4 and 5
Limited number of participants up to 12
Please contact us for more info and for subscription

AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37 Amsterdam
info@astarotheatro.com or astarotheatro on Instagram
This workshop is by donation

1. Friday 12 September 14:00-17:00
Mask making (part 1)
We start creating our personalized masks

2. Friday 19 September 14:00-17:00
Mask making (part 2)
We finalize the creation of our personalized masks

3. Friday 26 September 14:00-17:00
Beats Masks and Theatre
We wear our masks by getting inspired by beats, rhythms and theatre techniques

4. Friday 3 October 14:00-17:00
Theatre as Communal Experience (part 1)
We practice body and voice in space by integrating them with our masks, beats and rhythms in an experience of communal theatre

5. Friday 10 October 14:00-17:00
Theatre as Communal experience (part 2)
We practice body and voice in space by integrating them with our masks beats and rhythms in an experience of communal theatre
We prepare for performing!

Ghoula

To Roberto>>
In the tale, a Ghoula.
If the Ghoula would speak before you drank from her well, she would say: “I exist, my hidden hand extends a flower, giving in-relation.”

To Absala >>
Watermelons heaped there from early summer where little bright lights hang above one of the four corners of the school intersection.
When you left me. Did you?

Shadow of theater. Did we?

Wednesday 25 June 20:30
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37 Amsterdam
Entrance by Donation

Solidarity Dinner for The Freedom Theatre in Jenin Occupied Palestine