CHŌRA

Rooted in the cultures of street dance and hip-hop, PAX and Lunice bring their practices into dialogue with Neurotypique’s, weaving live art, technological interactivity and improvisation into a shared artistic language. The boundaries between disciplines gradually dissolve, until they become one and the same.

Inspired by Plato’s philosophical concept of chôra — a “receptacle” where anything can come into being, a formless space where things emerge without ever acquiring a fixed identity — the work becomes a shifting space in which the performers and their environment transform one another. The body does not evolve within a predetermined architecture; rather, it creates the conditions for its own becoming.

The work unfolds across three acts, each articulating a successive state of transformation: projection, dissolution and rebirth. As the body enters into relation with the forces surrounding it, its capacity to act is redefined and the environment itself metamorphoses. CHŌRA asks what it means to act within a system that is, in turn, acting upon us.

The artists’ words

“This work grew out of our individual and collective experiences as artists, and from the constant negotiation between instinct and expectation — between what we are compelled to create and what the world asks of us. CHŌRA embraces this in-between space, where adaptation becomes a form of intelligence and total commitment becomes an act of faith.

It is as much an aspiration as it is a performance: to express oneself with such honesty, such wholeness, that the world around us is irreversibly transformed.”