Isavella Kasimati: I was trying to describe you to someone

A performance that weaves fragments of images, film, movement and sound to explore love, womanhood, queerness and trauma. Through the use of overhead and digital projectors, a live visualizer camera, objects and real-time sound manipulation, five performers construct shifting visual and sonic landscapes and enter them with their bodies, as if entering a waking dream.

I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone is Part 3 of the Spring Trilogy, a series of three interconnected performances (A Girl named Spring Part 1 & 2) developed within the Master’s in Directing of Devised & Object Theatre program (DAMU) over the past two years.

Author, Director: Isavella Kasimati 

Performers: Elisa Pfeifer, Anaëlle Oger Mora, Terézia Mikleová, Michaela Čajkovičová, Isavella Kasimati

Dramaturg: Eliška Peřichová

Mentor: Sodja Zupanc Lotker

Consultation: Antonín Šilar, Petra Hauerová

Technical support: Guðmundur Felixson

Special thanks to Veronika Svobodová, Magdalena Hejzlarová and Táňa Švehlová.

The performance is presented in collaboration with DanceConnected.

Isavella Kasimati (b.1995, Athens) is an actress, writer and director. Currently based in Prague, she is completing a Master's degree in Directing of Devised & Object Theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU), following earlier studies in Psychology and Performing Arts.

Isavella's work is rooted in the genre of auto-fiction and explores how intimate stories can be reimagined and reconstructed through diverse artistic languages (dance, film, text, object theatre, multimedia). Her research revolves around developing performative strategies that transform autobiography into collective resonance, creating bridges between personal memory and shared experience.

Guided by a deep love for cinema, she often rematerializes existing stories from film, as an allegorical system to reframe her own story. In her process, body, sound, senses, and emotion are central, in the continuous search for sensitivity as an act of resistance.