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A Blurry Thing (upcoming)
Photo Credit: camilla strandhagen
by Camilla Strandhagen
A Blurry Thing is a stagework for two performers and one musician.
A Blurry Thing emerges from the perceptual phenomenon of dissociation, a corporal defense mechanism, a rupture between felt senses, cognitive connections, and directed attention. The piece explores how (chronic) illness may transform body perception and generate estrangement from oneself. Beginning from the premise that a sick body demands new fictions, the choreographic language turns toward ambiguity, toward the threshold where hegemonic definitions lose grip and choreographic imaginaries can emerge from the body's own undoing. Two performers and one musician disperse a body into many presences through syncopation and blurring. Presence leaks into absence, unity scatters into something unnamable. Blurring becomes a methodology and necessity for resisting fixed categories, and opens up alternative epistemologies beyond normative frameworks.
Team
Concept and choreography: Camilla Strandhagen
Choreographic and technical assistant: Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzalez
Performers: Katrina Gušča, Camilla Strandhagen
Sound: Marija Rasa Kudabaitė
Scenographic instrument: Arthur Chambry, Beate Poikāne
Costume and scenography: Beate Poikāne
Mentor/external eye: Carolina Mendonça
Neuroqueer research group: Emi Cantieri, Eris Previtali, Tulls Primultini, Camilla Strandhagen
Residency support
DansIT, workspacebrussels
Supported by
The Flemish Arts Council (Research Grant 2025),
Kulturrdirektoratet (Pre-project Funding 2025)