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Somewhere between a play, a novel sent by text message, relationship therapy, and a love letter to friendship, Nathalie Rozanes & Chloe Chignell use the virtual space of a WhatsApp group as their stage for the performance APRIL.

"We wanted to talk about intimacy, friendship and touch in the time of a global pandemic. I guess we don’t really need to explain the situation as we are all living in it, but you know… the reduced contacts, the hesitation of proximity, the decision of who to see and when to see them, who to touch, who to sleep with, who to keep distance from. In order to think about how these social choreographies of the pandemic— that denote the body as the dangerous, leaking, unstable ground for viral war — are changing, for better or worse, the models of friendship that we participate in and perform.

In the beginning, we were naive and kept talking about 'afterward', you know, when things would go back to normal, when things feel easy and fluid and the self-consciousness we now walk around with would start to reside and we would cough at the supermarket, something which now seems heinous.

But of course, 'after' is a fiction, it is a way of narrating the present moment to make it more bearable. We are here, in this intensely banal open stretch of now-time and our relationships are becoming different because of it. Even if there would be maskless faces in public and no limitations on house guests, we have carried these social choreographies in our bodies and they remain, if not 'our' present, memories written into our bodies, a defining history."

Written and Performed by: Chloe Chignell and Nathalie Rozanes

Produced by WorkspaceBrussels 

Premiered: Working Title Festival, April 15th 2021. 

 

VIEW FILM 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.

less recent, still present

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.

past

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.
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.