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An interactive performanceCreated by Chan Sze-Wei (SG) and Gabriela
Serani (CL)
Performed by Gabriela Serani
The Substation Gallery
Sat 24 February 2018 3pm, 8pm
Sun 25 February 2018 3pm
60 minutes, no intermission
The one who loves you hits you.
The one who hits you loves you. The one who loves you hurts you.
This is a piece about relationships, unfortunately.
(We can’t get away from them.)
One woman, one chair, one microphone. And a
chair opposite her, for you.
In an intimate conversation, she
lays her cards on the table: talk to her, and she might (really) slap you.
Playing on the anticipation of what happens when a theatre audience talks back,
this piece threads together live audience encounters with funny and frightening
stories of loneliness, domestic violence, authority, gender, and sensuality."a perfect
mirror to the hopeless shortcomings of our present social condition." - Theatrestück, on the Zagreb 2016 premiere of Talk
to me and I slap you “[Gabriela] has a unique and individual performance quality
with a sense of intrigue, mystery and wonder.” Debbi Purtill,
UK choreographer “Sze-Wei demonstrated herself as an
artist with strong and brave visions.”
– Noor Effendy Ibrahim, Artistic Director of the Substation 2010-2015 on Do Gorillas Peel Bananas? by Chan
Sze-Wei, 2013
This is an encounter rather than a
spectacle. Seated in the round, the audience is a group witness. The performer
waits, for you. You are invited to a series of intimate one-to-one
conversations in playfulness, dancing, sadness, silence… and a collective
journey to confront fear, violence, love and a moment of real human connection.Donation tickets available at https://igg.me/at/t7h4Xtk5Lxc/x/3046203With the support of: National Arts CouncilThe SubstationCreated and premiered in residency at the FAKI Alternative Theatre Festival, Zagreb 2016 Gabriela
Serani
Gabriela is a dance artist
originally from Chile. Her powerfully fluid physicality and charismatic
presence have featured in tours with UK companies BalletLORENT, Experiential
Dance Company, and Lizzie Klotz Company, as well as the creation of performances
with Paolo Mangiola (Italy) and Joanna Kalm (Estonia). Her choreographic
collaborations have been presented at the International Festival of Glasgow
(with Nerea Gurrutxaga), and at the FAKI festival of alternative theatre in
Zagreb (with Chan Sze-Wei). She holds a BA in Contemporary Dance from Trinity
Laban Conservatoire (UK), a postgraduate diploma from London Contemporary Dance
School, is a graduate of ‘The Dancers’ Course’ by BalletBoyz UK, and will be
commencing a Master in Cultural Studies and Arts Management in 2018. A longtime
practitioner and teacher of Flying Low/Passing Through dance technique, she is
among a select group of artists worldwide directly certified to teach by
founder David Zambrano. In 2017 she was the Artistic director of Estudio De
Danza Francisca Garcia in Santiago. Chan Sze-Wei
Sze
stepped into a dance class for a university P.E. requirement, and hasn’t
stopped dancing since. Since
training at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Best graduate, Diploma in Dance) and
the London Contemporary Dance School (MA with Distinction) she has created and
performed as an independent artist. Her unique interdisciplinary vision
emphasises the intimate and sensorial, connecting the threads of the body with
social issues, identity and gender. She blends conceptual, interactive,
improvisatory and cross-cultural approaches for theatres, public spaces, video
installation and film. Her choreographic work has been shown in Singapore, the
UK, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Croatia and Laos, as well as dance film
festivals in the USA and Brazil. She has been selected for support by the
Substation (Open Call 2013), Dance Nucleus (ELEMENT artist 2017), and FAKI
Festival of Alternative Theatre (residency in Zagreb, 2016). She lectures on a
part time basis at the LaSalle College of the Arts, and is a passionate
advocate for the rights and sustainable careers of dancers in Singapore, and
the development of artistic networks and exchange in Southeast Asia.