"A Mouth Moving Nothing (to Disarm What Tries to Hold) is a choreographic research grounded in the refusal of categorization. It explores genderlessness not as abstraction, but as a lived method, where movement becomes a way to undo the grip of visibility, identity, and expectation. In a world that demands bodies be legible, nameable, and fixed, this work chooses vibration over form, breath over arrival, and softness as resistance.
I work with ghostly scores, atmospheric shifts, and non-human performers, wind, heat, feedback loops, to create a choreography that moves without declaring itself. These elements, gendered in language but not in function, help build a performance space where ambiguity is not erased but protected. Where care begins not in holding, but in unholding.
During the 8-week mentorship, I aim to deepen the structural and political clarity of this project. I want to develop its flexible formats, from live performance to audio transmission to score-based publication, and build a presentation framework that sustains its quiet radicality. I’m not seeking visibility for the sake of it; I’m seeking the conditions where ungraspable forms can still survive, tour, and be funded.
The project resists spectacle but invites sensation. It slips into the glitch, into the cracks of gender, into what cannot be framed. With your guidance, I hope to transform it from a field of fragments into a soft, persistent strategy of survival.
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