Hidden Echoes

                                           


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. Ended up with this:


                                                                    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 message.


The work resists narrative. It unfolds as memory in motion, as energy offered to the witness. It invites you to embody, to create your own substance, to awaken a seed of Theresa Cha—alive, insurgent—between us and the path of the independent, resisting, female voice.


::Note:: ... in progress ... last in the trilogy Crossings - I.Untamed   II.Sea of Veils    III.Hidden Echoes

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