(nexus) Performance Gathering
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Day 1: Performance Gathering
14th June 2025: 12 ~ 3pm
KINGS Artist-Run: 69 Capel St, West Melbourne VIC 3003
Over the past 6 weeks, attendees of the (nexus) Storytelling Workshop Series have been hard at work, crafting and developing their own unique stories through movement. Now, it's their time to shine and share those stories with you during our Performance Gathering
Aubrey (@aubrey.wu.18)
A body remembers what words forget.
Through Waacking, Popping, and freestyle, “Echoes in Motion” drifts through the soft ache of love, the silence of loss, and the quiet rise of becoming whole again.
Set against a backdrop of soulful rhythms and cinematic waves, each movement whispers a story — fleeting, tender, and raw.
This is a dance of echoes: of what was felt, what was left behind, and what still pulses beneath the skin
Claude (@justnawanda)
“What’s lost can be found - together”
Fruity Escape: Miki + E-1 (@_miki.ueda | @yiiiiiienon )
Just two fruits on a mischievous journey. What happens when gender norms go through a blender and come out slightly... sour? A janky mess of glitches and juicy disruptions. Chaotic but tender. As the fruity escape unfolds, no one knows what’s ahead…
Hannah (ft. Tanya Cubric) (@hdefelt | @tcubric)
You are invited to encounter a rare creature. During the encounter, you will be guided by the creature’s caretaker, who will ensure your comfort and safety. As the creature is very sensitive to being perceived, you will be encouraged to take measures to accommodate her. The caretaker will describe and interpret her behaviour.
LioxJ (@jessjz__)
When we take the human mind and show it a neutral thing, what is dormant in the mind comes out.
Slow introduction to character & space in small area in-front of wall mounted display, graphic display on wall behind. Innocent, hopeful.
Move to second space without prompting the audience, a darker place, strange and abrasive.
Move to third space without prompting the audience, a slow, possibly peaceful sunset on the energetic development of this being.
Liss (@liss7873)
It begins in stillness — held by softness, silence, and the comfort of the known.
Beyond the walls of home, the world thrums with unseen codes and quiet demands.
To survive, a mask forms — a performance, a way to blend in.
The rhythm quickens, the weight presses down.
Until something fractures. Limits are reached.
And so comes the retreat — back to quiet, back to the familiar.
But the body carries what was endured.
The silence is no longer the same.
LOUV (@louvmeplease)
Breathing Silence explores the tension between isolation and interconnection, transforming solitary grieving into a shared, communal silence.
LOUV begins alone, in stillness, breathing deeply in the corner. She moves through the space, holding the gaze of audience members—exploring silence, eye contact, and proximity—coming close enough for them to hear her breathe.
You don’t heal grief by running. You heal grief by being with it… by staying… day after day, standing in the nothingness, in the emptiness of loss.
What does loss create? Pain.
But… once you face pain, you create space.
And from there arises the invitation:
to fill that space with presence.
Luchi (@luchimorson)
What began as a voracious desire to discover the world, suddenly turned into an encounter with nothingness. Into a quietness so overwhelming, it shattered all structure.
“Who am I when everything fades away?” the traveler asks herself.
This is the story of a journey that begins in an office. It crosses as many kilometers of road as of skin, until reaching an abyss, where she surrenders to the wind.
Proximity: dancey mcdanceface + Villianaire (@i.am.masha.ilinova | @viv.ianli)
non | linear
Two bodies in separate spaces explore how we choose to relate to grief's gravitational pull. One cycles through struggle, exhaustion, and shame, fearing surrender means never rising again. The other finds nourishment in descent—soft permission to rest, grace in allowing, leaning into ground for support. The floor is both adversary and sanctuary, mirroring our complex dance with sorrow.
The audience becomes part of the performance, moving between spaces as their own bodies trace grief's non-linear path.
Second Nature: Azita + Xiao Zhu (@az_you_do | @xiaozhu1358)
A metaphorical dance tracing the journey of amphibians—shape-shifters between worlds—this piece explores migration, cultural hybridity, and the tension between assimilation and authenticity. It’s a meditation on identity, belonging, and what we carry or transform when we cross into new lands with dominant, yet foreign cultures.