Chloe Chignell (Australia) is a dancer and choreographer based in Brussels working across text, choreography and publishing. In 2019 she opened rile* a bookshop and project space for practices moving between publication and performance, with Sven Dehens. Her most recent work Poems and Other Emergencies premiered at Batard Festival Brussels 2020, and was supported by WorkspaceBrussels, BUDA Kortrijk, Lucy Geurin Inc and La Balsamine.
She graduated from the research cycle at P.A.R.T.S (BE, 2018), She has a Bachelor in Dance from Victorian College of the Arts, (AUS, 2013) and studied a writing and residency program at DOCH (SE, 2017). As a choreographer Chloe has been commissioned by the Keir Choreographic Award (AUS) 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 (IT 2017). As a dancer Chloe has worked for Adriano Wilfert Jensen, Ingrid Berger Myhre, Anna Gaiotti, Gry Tingskog, Atlanta Eke, Ellen Söderhult, Phoebe Berglund and James Bachelor performing in Australia and across Europe.
Chloe is co-editor of This Container magazine, currently in its 8th edition based between Stockholm, Brussels and Melbourne. Her writing has been published by This Container, Koreografi, Indigo Dance Magazine (PAF) and Realtime (Australia). She has developed choreographic writing and reading formats hosted by Kottinspektionen (Stockholm), PraxisFestivalen (Oslo), PAF (France) Scene:Bluss (Norway). She is co-initiator of PO$$E a dance and reading group based in Stockholm with satelite groups now in Copenhagen and Melbourne.
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Premiere of Poems and Other Emergencies, Batard Festival, Brussels.
Moving into Writing with Ann-Christin Kongsness at National Danish School for Performing Arts, Copenhagen.
Deep Space by James Batchelor at Pompidou Málaga, Spain.
Feelings of Forms/Forms of Feelings, as apart of Analysis by Adriano Wilfert Jensen. Danscentrum, Stockholm.
This Container 07, Kule, Berlin.
Poems and Other Emergencies, Workspacebrussels, Belgium.
Les Antécédentes by Anna Gaiotti, Ménagerie De Verre, Paris.
The Girl-with-her-tongue-out at 'Words Don't Come Easy' by Feelings and Simon, Brussels.
Hosting Scene:Bluss P0$$€ edition at PIT Festival, Porsgrunn NO.
Moving into Writing Workshop with Ann-Christin Kongsness, Praxis Festivalen, Olso.
This Container Edition 07, Insister Space, Stockholm.
Deep Space by James Batchelor at Centre Pompidou, Paris.
The Girl-with-her-tongue-out, with a.pass at Performatik, Kanal Pompidou, Brussels.
The girl-with-her-tongue-out , Twisted Tongues Reading Club curated by Roxanne Maillet, Damien and the Love Guru, Brussels.