Chloe Chignell

Chloe Chignell (AU, 1993) is an artist working across text, choreography and publishing. Her work focuses on language within a choreographic frame. She invests in writing as a body building practice and in practices of experimental translation.

Chloe graduated from a.pass (BE, 2020), from the research cycle at P.A.R.T.S (BE, 2018) and recieved a Bachelor of Dance from the VCA (AU, 2013). In 2019, Chloe co-founded rile* a bookshop and project space for publication and performance with Sven Dehens. Her work has been presented across Europe and Australia including: NEXT Festival (2024), Pavillon ADC (2024), Batard Festival (BE, 2019) Saal Biennale (ES 2021), Moving Words Festival (NO 2021), QL2 (AU 2022), KAAP (BE 2022), Littérature etc. (FR 2022), Dancehouse (AU 2016-8), The Kier Choreographic Award (AU 2018) Kottinspektionen (SE 2019) and Venice Biennale of Dance (IT 2017) among others.

She has performed for and collaborated with choreographers across Europe and Australia including: James Bachelor, Angela Goh, Bryana Fritz, Stefa Govaart, Amina Szecsödy, Ingrid Berger Myhre, Adriano Wilfert Jensen, Phoebe Berglund, Anna Gaiotti, Clara Amaral and Gry Tingskog.

In 2020 She published her first book The Complete Text Would Be Insufferable with uhbooks edited by Will Holder. Her writing has been published in: misted.cc (NL), Choreography Journal (NO), Le Chauffage (BE), RealTime (AU), This Container Magazine (SE/BE), ...and then the doors open again (BE/NL) and Engagement Arts Zine (BE).

Chloe was the founder and co-editor of This Container magazine, a publication focusing on choreographic writing which produced 8 editions between 2016-2021. She has developed choreographic writing and reading formats hosted by Kottinspektionen (Stockholm), PraxisFestivalen (Oslo), PAF (France) Scene:Bluss (Norway). She also teaches choreographic and writing workshops at P.A.R.T.S. (BE), HZT (DE), ISAAC (BE) and the VCA (AU).

contact: chloeechignell [@] gmail  .  com 
instagram: @chloechignell 

 

 

 

upcoming

25.01.26 • performance
SUNCUT: A lover's dictionary, Critical Path, Sydney
13.01.26 until 27.01.26 • workshop
Reading Group: Try to remember, or failing that, invent. Reading and writing with Monique Wittig. Critical Path, Sydney
12.01.26 until 30.01.26 • residency
SUN CUT: A lover's Dictionary, Residency, Critical Path, Sydney
05.12.25 • performance
SUNCUT: A lover's dictionary, Atelier no 71, PACT Zolllverein, Germany

recent

17.10.25 until 18.10.25 • 
Shadow Text, Performance, Beursschouwburg, Brussels BE.

less recent, still present

25.08.25 until 29.08.25 • workshop
Translating the Biotext, choreographic workshop, Summer Dance Intensive Vilnius, Lithuania
22.08.25 • performance
Shadow Text, performance, Summer University, Performing Arts Forum, France.
21.07.25 until 02.08.25 • residency
SUNCUT: a lover's dictionary, Residency at GC De Maalbeek, n22 brussels.
15.06.25 • performance
SUNCUT: a lover's dictionary, Performance, Iteration 1, PRIDE Museum, queer x Mima, Brussels

past

11.05.25 until 17.05.25 • residency
SUNCUT: a lover's dictionary, development at Performing Arts Forum, France.
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.
02.04.25 until 04.04.25 • workshop
Translating the Biotext, choreographic 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 : a lover's dictionary, residency at Critical Path, Sydney.
06.01.25 until 10.01.25 • residency
Resonance by James Bachelor, Residency, Canberra Theatre Centre, ACT, AUS.
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
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