Associated Artists

We are eager to share our extensive experience and expertise—organizational, artistic, and business-focused—with interdisciplinary artists. In the coming years, we will proudly support multiple creatives.

Although not every collaboration will become a full production or co-production, we offer tailored support. This ranges from expertise, coaching, and network access to production assistance and, where possible, additional funding. All of this is done in collaboration with the partners that the makers themselves bring on board.

LUCINDA WESSELS

Lucinda Wessels is a dancer, maker, and performer with a distinctive movement language that flows between hip hop, contemporary dance, and performance art. She has performed with companies such as Dutch National Ballet, ISH Dance Collective, and The Ruggeds. She's no stranger to Nicole Beutler Projects: Wessels previously appeared in ROLE MODEL and OUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE.

As a maker, Wessels brings together different disciplines. Her work includes short films (Cinedans), a site-specific performance developed through Het Atelier at Oerol and Over het IJ, a visual dance performance (ISH Open Nights), and a VR experiment in collaboration with ICK. Her artistic practice moves fluidly between styles and identities, inviting audiences to question existing frameworks.

Alongside her work as a performer and creator, Wessels is active as a teacher and choreographer, including at the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam. As a queer artist, she draws strength from the “in-between spaces” of disciplines and scenes, a place where her versatility comes fully into play.

ABOUT FELIX SCHELLEKENS

Felix Schellekens has been an essential part of our organization for almost 10 years! As a dancer, performer, and singer, we have shared a journey of growth, adventure, and creative exploration together.

He performed in 8: METAMORPHOSIS, a production that won the VSCD Mime Award, was nominated for the VSCD Swan Award, and won the international Music Theatre Now competition. In addition, he has worked with various renowned companies and was nominated for a Louis d’Or for his role in Weg met Eddy Bellegueule by Eline Arbo under Toneelschuur Producties. Now, under the guidance of Nicole Beutler Projects, he is creating vanishing acts.

Felix Schellekens cannot be easily confined to one discipline. After studying at the Mime School in Amsterdam, he developed further as an actor, singer, dancer, performer, and theater maker. His great sensitivity and playfulness, intertwined with sober imagery, encourage the audience to feel rather than think.

GENEVIEVE MURPHY

In May 2017, Nicole Beutler Projects received the New Makers Grant from FPK (Fonds Podiumkunsten) for composer Genevieve Murphy. This grant supports research and production, allowing new makers to be produced and coached by Nicole Beutler Projects/Nicole Beutler. Murphy and Beutler share a connection in how they both combine composition and performance. Beutler’s choreography can be seen as compositions where image, sound, and movement interlock. In her performances, music is one of the main carriers of meaning. While Beutler's work starts from the body and movement, Murphy begins with music. Nicole Beutler coaches Genevieve Murphy in developing her work as a performer and performance maker.

Genevieve Murphy (Scotland, 1988) studied music and composition at the conservatories of Glasgow, Birmingham, and The Hague. She lives and works in Amsterdam. In her artistic practice, she combines performance and visual arts with contemporary classical music.

Murphy’s compositions and performances have been featured at venues such as Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Stedelijk Museum, Sectie C Eindhoven, Music Showroom SC Zagreb, ESC Graz, La Fenice Theatre Venice, MAXXI Rome, and Gaudeamus Utrecht. She has collaborated with groups such as Slagwerk Den Haag, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra’s Camerata, the Storioni Trio, Ex Novo Ensemble, and the International Ensemble Modern Akademie Frankfurt.

In addition to composing for various music, visual art, and theater projects, Genevieve tours throughout Europe with traditional and improvised pieces for the bagpipes. She also performs with musicians like Andy Moor (The Ex) and Terrie Hessels.

www.genevieve-murphy.com