​

drawing upon the vital connection between dance and ritual, harbor is a space where I manifest a meeting with my maternal grandmother. as a young girl, she was forced to cross a sea, fleeing a japanese invasion of her birth home in guangzhou to singapore. following her passing in 2018, I began to shift my choreographic position from one of dancing to being danced. by understanding my own body as a medium within the continuum of an extended ancestral legacy, harbor articulates the memory of displacement, migration and violence passed on through generations. a dream, a coastline, a horizon, a cry, a tremor, a ripple, a cloud, a portal.

--

harbor

performance
60 minutes

concept / choreography / performance : jee chan
with : 蕭曼兒 Seow Mok Jee
sound design : Chong Li-Chuan, Hilà Lahav
light design : Gretchen Blegen
things & space : stefan pente
technical direction : Martin Pilz
translation support : Cary Shiu
production assistance : Phoebe von Düffel, Toni Flügel, Aki Hassan
 
a production by jee chan, in co-production with Tanzfabrik Berlin. funded through the Einzelprojektförderung of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. residency support from Tanzfabrik Berlin and Dance Nucleus, Singapore. research process supported by Goethe-Institute Singapore and the National Arts Council, Singapore

premiered at Tanzfabrik Berlin
23 - 25 February 2023

​trailer

​​photos: Dieter Hartwig