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in syun, I transcribe voice recordings I made when my maternal grandmother and I practiced chinese calligraphy together. these are the last recordings I made with her before she passed on. as we write, she begins to speak, sharing her past with me in vivid fragments, meandering, forgetting and recalling. I'm scrambling to grasp everything I hear, everything she's telling me, all these stories, every single inflection.

through the act of writing, syun is a meditation upon speech, memory, impermanence, and the state of being at a loss for words.

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syun

performance
45 minutes

concept / choreography / performance : jee chan
with : 蕭曼兒 Seow Mok Jee
things & space : stefan pente

for the 25 year anniversary of TANZNACHT BERLIN
presented by Tanzfabrik Berlin

Uferstudios, Berlin
8 - 9 September 2023
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​photos : stefan pente