P0$$€ dance and reading is a weekly gathering for people wanting to spend time dancing and reading together. It is an open-ended study circle for practitioners within contemporary dance and other curious ones. We meet up weekly in different constellations to practice reading and dancing together and investigate what this could mean. Each session is hosted by one or several practitioners that propose the materials: text to read, a way to read the text and dances. The text can be written be artistic, essayistic, philosophical, articles, lyrics, poetry, manifestos, scores. The methods can vary from reading in a circle one by one, to braiding hair, to intimate readings, to speaking through robotic voices. The dances can vary in style: contemporary, modern, reggaeton, body work, formalism, expressive dance, dance-rituals, scores, meditations, writing, questioning, healing, dreaming, for example. POSSE is engaged with critical practices and with generating discourse through doing. POSSE is an institutional parasite, an autonomous entity, based on the idea that nothing is connected to everything, everything is connected to something (Harraway). The host of POSSE changes from week to week, just like its participants. POSSE is whoever is there.
POSSE was initiated by Tamara Alegre, Chloe Chignell, Louise Pousette and Klara Utke Acs in Stockholm. Since its initation POSSE has started in Melbourne Australia and Copenhagen, Denmark.
The graphics are made by Ali-eddine Abdelkhalek. POSSE is registered as an ABF-study circle and takes place primarily at c.off from February 2019.
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.
less recent, still present
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.
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.