What kind of words do we have to describe our relationships? and what do those words do for us?
I've been thinking about how naming is used to build identity. That language becomes something that can buttress who you are, that makes it clear, or legible. And then thinking how could we use language, by way of practices of description, to rather try dis-identification. To think about how it can undo and thus destabilize a certain reading of bodies, their gestures, and relations. In order to experiment with what this or that relationship might mean, and thus could be. Starting from geometries of relation, literally the shapes we take, in love, care, touch, and dependency, and open the erotics through language.
Choreography: Chloe Chignell
Collaborators and Performers: Alice Heyward and Stefan Govaart.
Residency at BUDA Kortrijk 5-16th April 2021
Residency at rile* 2021 TBC
READ - THE AGENT - co-written during a residency at BUDA, April 2021
upcoming
11.04.25 until 13.04.25• performance
Shadow Text, performance, Dancehouse, Melbourne/Naarm, AUS.
05.04.25 until 06.04.25• performance
Total by Angela Goh, performance, GOMA, Brisbane, AUS.
recent
02.04.25 until 04.04.25• workshop
Translating the Biotext, choreographic writing workshop, BFA students, The Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne/Naarm, AUS.
27.03.25 until 29.03.25• performance
Begin / The Mirror, Performance, Pavillon ADC, Geneva.
22.03.25• performance
Begin/ The Mirror, Performance, Kunstencentrum BUDA, Kortijk, BE.
20.02.25 until 21.02.25• reading
I am a Translation, Artist Presentation, Werkplatz typographie, Amsterdam NL
26.01.25 until 01.02.25• residency
TOTAL by Angela Goh, Residency, Critical Path / Ready Made, Sydney AUS.
13.01.25 until 31.01.25• residency
SUNCUT - Research for new work, Residency, Critical Path, Sydney AUS
06.01.25 until 10.01.25• residency
Resonance by James Bachelor, Residency, Canberra Theatre Centre, ACT, AUS.
less recent, still present
03.12.24 until 20.12.24• residency
Resonance by James Bachelor, Residency, Berlin, DE.
28.11.24 until 30.11.24• performance
Begin / The Mirror [premiere] NEXT festival, Espace Pasolini, Valenciennes, FR
past
01.07.24 until 07.07.24• residency
Begin / The Mirror, residency, Kunstencentrum BUDA, Kortrijk
22.06.24• performance
Begin / Beguines [here love speaks] presentation at Klosterruine, Berlin.
03.06.24 until 14.06.24• residency
Begin / The Mirror, Residency, Pavillion ADC, Geneva
22.04.24 until 26.04.24• residency
Begin / The Mirror, Residency, Marseilles, FR
27.02.24 until 28.02.24• performance
Shadow Text [Premiere] Bits of Dance KAAP, Bruges, BE.
