Slug in the toilet — singing you into her slimy, haunted dreams
Xiao Chuyue
Location: Plein Theater
- GENRE: Music theatre, Performance Art, Spoken word / Poetry
- THEME: More than human, Speaking Bodies, The female voice, Voicing the Unvoiced
- LANGUAGE: English
- ACCESSIBILITY: Assistance dogs welcome, Genderneutral toilets, Toilet for wheelchair users, Wheelchair accessible
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What if the slug you feared was actually your spirit animal? A slug crawls out from the bathroom drain, strangely familiar – a memory of the forest floor with countless glistening bodies underfoot. The disgust is close enough to become a fascination.
Slug is a soft-concert combining movement and spoken word in theatre. On a slime-covered stage shifting between a humid forest and an intimate bathroom, performers trace the story and guide you through dreams of something viscous the female body produces. Sit close to the floor, and witness an intimate ritual that slowly transforms abjection into celebration.
Biography
Xiao Chuyue is an Amsterdam-based performer and dance maker from Hubei, China, graduating from SNDO (choreography) in Amsterdam this year. Her artistic path began in Shanghai, where she joined the performance ensemble ao_ao_ing (老妖精), developing an interdisciplinary practice that connects performance with her background in communication and media.
Her work moves across image, fiction, and the body, exploring the blurred boundaries between the virtual and the physical, the domestic and the public.
For this performance, Xiao collaborates with artist and musician Ping-En Hung to reclaim the female body from shame and transform disgust into a ritualistic celebration.