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                                                                                                              Director's Statement                                                          I could not direct. Could only listen.  Listening opens what the mind obscures: the tremor of a gesture, the weight of silence, the echo of sensation. Hidden Echoes does not tell a story. It discovers—the unknown within the body, the body as unknown. Rooted in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee , we honour her quest through presence. The performers carry no message; they are the mess...

Creating a  performance adaptation of  Dictee  by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha is a powerful challenge— Dictee  is nonlinear, fragmented, multilingual, and deeply rooted in themes of  voice, memory, exile, colonialism, and the female body as archive . A performance version should echo its form as much as its content: shifting, layered, unstable, ritualistic. Note:   … so was the challenge … began aug. 4 ..