Shadow Text,
SUN CUT: a lover's Dictionary,
Begin / The Mirror,
Poem at Work,
Poems and Other Emergencies,
PUBLIC RELATIONS,
APRIL (a performance),
...as if leaking,
Forever in both Directions,
This Container,
Touch(ed),
Soft Reality
Poems and Other Emergencies
Mouth agape. Tongue fingering the air. Like that. I waited. A body. In detail. Delay.
Poems and Other Emergencies sits at the intersection of poetry and choreography. Centered on a fictional character The Girl-with-her-tongue-out, the performance questions if it is through language that we find ourselves a body, or through the body that we find language? Embodied voices and voiced bodies weave and echo throughout the space. Where does the word end and her body begin?
Poems and Other Emergencies uses the apparatus of the theatre to coincide the female body and language, to produce a sensuously situated speech. The poem becomes an event and the performer's body emerges at the intersection of voices weaving a bodily and textual landscape. Using fragmentation and doubling in order to open an in-between, a space of contingency, for its narratives and subjects.
The language of poetry speaks from the margins, from exile; it is reinvented each time it is heard. It is a language of withdrawal, divergence and differentiation. The poem sings out to the other without knowing what that other is. It is subjectivity in the making; through its echoes, the poem overflows its writer. Poems and Other Emergencies positions the performer as a radical historicist, inscribing herself and the event, writing of this time with body and text.
Performance and Choreography: Chloe Chignell
Conversation partner: Adriano Wilfert Jensen
Technician: Sven Dehens
Thanks: Sven Dehens, Bojana Cvejic, Stefan Goovart, Deborah Birch and a.pass.
Supported By: BUDA Kortrijk, VGC, Workspacebrussels, La Balsamine, Lucy Guerin Inc, Dancehouse Melbourne and Batard Festival Brussels.
VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
upcoming
21.07.25 until 02.08.25
• residency
SUN CUT: a lover's dictionary, Residency at GC De Maalbeek, n22 brussels.
recent
15.06.25
• performance
SUN CUT: a lover's dictionary, Performance, Iteration 1, PRIDE Museum, queer x Mima, Brussels
11.05.25 until 17.05.25
• residency
SUN CUT: 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 writing workshop, BFA students, The Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne/Naarm, AUS.
less recent, still present
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
SUN CUT : 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.
past
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
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.