Chloe Chignell

Chloe Chignell (AU) is an artist working across text, choreography and publishing. Chloe takes the body as the central problem, question and location of her research. She invests in writing as a body building practice, examining the ways in which language makes us up. She graduated from the research cycle at P.A.R.T.S (BE, 2018) and went on to the post-master research program at A.pass (BE, 2020). She has a Bachelor in Dance from Victorian College of the Arts, (AU, 2013) and studied a writing and residency program at DOCH (SE, 2017). She received the DanceWEB scholarship in 2015.

Since 2019 Chloe co-runs rile* a bookshop and project space for publication and performance with Sven Dehens.  Her most recent work Poems and Other Emergencies premiered at Batard Festival Brussels 2020 and has been presented at Saal Biennale (Tallinn, 2021), Moving Words Festival (NO, 2021), QL2 (AU, 2022) and soon at KAAP (Bruges, 2022) and Littérature etc. (Paris 2022). Chloe has been commissioned by the Keir Choreographic (AU, 2016) for the creation of Deep Shine touring to Japan for The Awaji Art Festival. She presented a short work forever in both directions for the Venice Biennale’s Biennale of Dance (2017).

As a dancer Chloe has collaborated with James Batchelor, Adriano Wilfert Jensen, Ingrid Berger Myhre, Anna Gaiotti, Clara Amaral, Gry Tingskog, Atlanta Eke, Ellen Söderhult and Phoebe Berglund performing in Australia and across Europe.

She published her first book The Complete Text Would Be Insufferable with uhbooks edited by Will Holder (2020). Her writing has been published in: misted.cc an online temporary reading space (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 is the founder and co-editor of This Container magazine, a publication focusing on choreographic writing, currently in its 8th edition. She has developed choreographic writing and reading formats hosted by Kottinspektionen (Stockholm), PraxisFestivalen (Oslo), PAF (France) Scene:Bluss (Norway). She teaches the Masters of Choreography Students at ISAC. 

 

recent

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 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.

less recent, still present

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.
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.
16.12.23 • performance
Poem at Work, presented at SB34 as part of A Note on Dialect [Prelude] an invitation by Simon Asencio. Brussels, BE.
27.11.23 until 15.12.23 • teaching
Teaching Workshop "Translating the Bio-text" at HZT, Berlin, DE.
10.11.23 • performance
Shadow Text at Perdu, Amsterdam NL