Skywater, Facewater, Underwater Waltz
made with Karen Christopher & Tara Fatehi
Premiering at Chapter Arts Centre on 17 & 18 September 2025
Skywater, Facewater, Underwater Waltz is a performance which combines movement, text, sound, video and objects to explore flow, adaptation and ways of sensing the world, evoking ideas related to deep sea cultures and the environment.
Karen, Tara and Jemima are collaborating to devise, direct and perform the work. Using live performance as a mode of thought, they have come together to wiggle, jump, dart, glide, cogitate and sing about our present condition as a way of thinking about what and who we live alongside.
Murmurations, recitations, proclamations and evocations take the form of dance, song, disguise, protest and celebration. Thinking through the lens of the deep dark sea we are answering who and what performance is for and how we might foster generative thought about climate adaptation and living with difference among the vital forces of this planet. We are stardust but we are also fish.
Performance Dates
Coming up...
- Premiere: 17 & 18 September 2025, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
History
- 4 June 2024, Peopling the Palaces festival, London (work-in-progress)
- 7 June 2024, Fest en Fest festival, London (work-in-progress)
- 12 October 2024, Arnolfini, Bristol (work-in-progress)
- 7 November 2024, Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh (work-in-progress; part of the event ENTANGLEMENTS: STUDIES IN FALLING, FLOWING, FOLLOWING)
Links
Trailer by Dan Canham, filmed at Arnolfini