IN BETWEEN (2025)
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL DANCE, SOLO [ 15 min]
IN-PROGRESS
Venue: Charmouth, UK
In Between is a sub-project of my doctoral research, developed during a workshop led by Sandra Reeve. This autobiographical dance work explores how the embodied vocabulary of Chinese Classical Dance can be used to engage with natural elements and dualistic concepts—such as softness and strength, cold and heat, heaven and earth, fluidity and solidity. Through inhabiting these embodied oppositions, the work seeks to discover a personal somatic space of balance, reflecting upon the traditional Chinese philosophical concept of ‘Zhongyong’ (the Doctrine of the Mean).
Another strand of the practice investigates the dancer’s sense of agency as an embodied subject in the world:
How does the body perceive and respond to the world around it?
How does movement shift in relation to individual intention and external interaction?
This process questions how subjectivity is formed and activated through bodily negotiation with the other.