Chloe Dechery_

part of Evolve Exchange

Chloé Déchery (UK / France) has been presenting works in theatres and interdisciplinary festivals since 2006. Her practice leans across disciplines of Live Art, experimental theatre and movement, questioning what is at the core of the live event. She is interested in exploring the nature of the theatrical event and the relationship between the performer and the performed-to. Concerned with communication and language issues, her work explores body, image and text as means of interaction and provocation.

about

Chloé does solo and collaborative works, sharing an on-going dialogue with long-term collaborators coming from different artistic backgrounds. She often starts with a concept or an initial structure, blurring frontiers between autobiography, facts and fiction; playing with expectations and disappointment while deconstructing the mechanisms of theatre. Beyond the initial concept, movement, text, images, film and sound are then thrown into the mix in an organic way, depending on the context and the nature of each project.

Chloé’s recent works include Useful Knowledge to Know (ACE funded England and Wales tour, 2010-2007), a lecture-performance devised in collaboration with Chris Eley; Showing up, a series of short performances devised for the Sprint festival in collaboration with Lucy Foster (Camden People’s Theatre, June 2009); Marie, a solo show exploring the complex relationship between mother and daughter through the mapping of the performer’s own body (Oval House, Forest Fringe, summer 2009).

Creative Team_

Chris Eley is an Australian documentary film-maker. Since 2005, he has been working as an assistant producer and director at True Vision, one of the British Television’s most respected and award winning documentary producers. His first documentary film, Into that…goodbye is part of the Sheffield Doc Fest 09 official selection.
Chris has also been involved in performance projects and has been creating video material, most recently fin collaboration with Chloé on Useful Knowledge to Know or for Lucy Foster’s Oh My Green Soapbox.

Lucy Foster is an Associate Director with the theatre company Improbable, and the Co-Artistic Director of her own company Jumbled. She recently finished a run at The Barbican as a performer in Improbable’s new show, Panic, and completed a run of her solo show Oh My Green Soapbox at the Edinburgh Festival this summer. Lucy and Chloe are teaming up next year to devise and create a new large scale show revolving around History, families and cultural identities.

Elyssa Livergant is an artist who is committed to interdisciplinary practice and her work spans experimental theatre, live art and performance research. Originally from Canada, and based in London since 2005, her working practices lead to collaborations locally, nationally and internationally. Exploring identity and history, blurring the lines between fact and fiction, she’s engaged with the spaces – imaginative and material – between people and within places and processes. Elyssa is working in collaboration with Chloe on the performance Marie.

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http://www.chloedechery.com/

Useful Knowledge to Know (in the park)

Links_

http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/home/

http://www.forestfringe.co.uk/

http://www.improbable.co.uk/

http://www.cptheatre.co.uk/

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October 15th, 2009

I’ll be performing a lecture / epilogue to the performance I am working on at the moment, “Marie”, at New Greenham Arts next week on Wednesday the 21st. Recently, I have been workin on “Marie”, in collaboration with Elyssa Livergant; a solo show about a daughter (me) and a mother (Marie), investigating what it means to have the same blood – and feet.
The idea here is to explore the liminal aspect of the performance event and the genesis of this very project. It dialogues with the already existing piece, introduces notions of transmission and heritage in a non-linear way, going back and forth in time.