Threshold: Scores for Self Adventure (without Salvation)

Threshold is a new monthly evening of performance at Chapter, curated by and featuring artists based in or connected to Wales, who are invited to contribute new/raw/unfinished performance in the spirit of play, exploration and exchange across disciplines. Threshold is an entry-point, a meeting place, and a boundary between practices/perspectives that we invite artists to cross.

The first iteration, Threshold: Scores for Self Adventure (without Salvation) is curated by Anushiye Yarnell with contributions from Tim Bromage, Tess Gray, Liam Wallace and Lara Ward.

To accompany this performance, on Saturday 5 April, natural voice singer and facilitator, Frankie Armstrong, will lead Voicing the Archetypes of Myth — a workshop exploring mythological archetypes using movement, visualisation, imagination and vocal play.

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Artist statement

“Each of us is host to and hosted by a multitude of beings: Ancestral, Living, Dying. Infested by the microbial, caught up by an invisible thread in the web of all life. Each of us is a battleground, a heist, a nuptial bed out of wedlock. We are bombarded by self-improvement as salvation. “We create our own reality” I hear it said. Alienated and adrift in this generation of affirmation.

A year or so before Hepzibah (my daughter) was born I needed something to hold it together for a solo work. Because my thinking is disparate, over connective, I decided to stick to the material of an online Jungian personality test as a score, responding to it choreographically rather like a game of charades. Scores for Self Adventure invites four artists to take a similar online test which will act as their score for the evening.”

— Anushiye Yarnell

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About the artists

Anushiye Yarnell is an interdisciplinary dance maker and performer whose work is drawn from personal experience, past and future mythologies.

Tim Bromage is a performer and artist based in Wales. He works with story, magic, and movement to create strange things for small groups of people. His current work draws upon dream, myth and the uncanny.

Tess Gray is an artist from Wales.

Liam Wallace is a Cardiff-based artist trained at Northern School of Contemporary Dance, graduating in 2015. Since then, Liam has been developing his performance and teaching practice in contemporary dance working with the Welsh National Opera, Jo Fong, NDCWales and Krystal Lowe. His style of moving and teaching that promotes openness and individuality.

Lara Ward is a performer, practitioner, maker and movement director from Wales. She uses film to explore her obsession with the moving body and its relationship to nature.

POPPERFACE (a.k.a Gareth Chambers) is a working-class choreographer and performance artist whose work fuses Butoh, MMA-inspired movement, and horror aesthetics. Exploring themes of class, masculinity, hauntology, and body horror, POPPERFACE challenges traditional movement and performance to create visceral, immersive experiences that push the boundaries of physicality and identity.