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About a year ago, I was nominated to apply for the @amant.arts Residency— this nomination came at a time where my art practise was severely destabilised, where I was waiting upon the results of my second visa application after my first UK Global Talent Visa was denied. Future-dreaming and a capacity for hope at an all time low, somehow in my existential limbo, I coaxed myself into practising what I do best, which is pulling self belief out of a fleeting (but present) well within me and applied for this.

I proposed a research project I wanted to seek answers to, culminating the work I’ve been developing for both myself and my community. A year on— the last year was rebuilding some kind of faith in life/work- and one month into the residency, I find myself referencing previous works and writing, tracing my queerness and my dance, and sitting with the reality that I get to expand these short-lived legacies of my younger mind. In a way, as much as I change, I begin to think I know myself well. I always make with this particular sensibility/feel/就是那种感觉… 真的好久不见。

I’m looking at non-traditional Chinese dance forms, specifically Chinese Square Dances (广场舞 guángchángwû) and the memetics of 尬舞 gàwû, within the context of physical and digital spatial choreopolitics. I’m drawn to these dances as signifiers of contemporary Chineseness– ones that have the potential to infiltrate diasporic Chinese imaginations. I’m hoping to offer/propose/seek out an embodied reference point to what a queer Chinese dance might be, and therefore, what belonging to a dance might feel like.

I’m currently working towards my For Your Reference, “拉手手 Tracing a Dance to Hold Hands: New imaginations for a queer Chinese dance”. I see it as a test space for work I’d like to do more in the future, and a mutual reference point of exchange. I’m hoping to collate an index of gestures (non-prescriptive) for our queer Chinese dance across the residency. I’ll share more on it soon, I’m so excited at everything that’s coming together. taken in Amant by @chanfyx

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2 years ago

Trying to share more of my own movement.

Those who have worked with me know I’m incredibly protective of where my movement work enters, who I share it with, and the boundaries I have between commercial & soulful work that is often blurry but so present so I can keep very personal distillations of my self & histories sacred.

As a femme Chinese person in the UK, the context of my movement background needs to be seen. It’ll be very different if I was back home, where my privilege is very profuse. There is a violence in such erasure- one I’ve subject myself to willingly in younger states but one I simply do not want to be read in anymore. A white person calling my movement simply ‘interesting’ and ‘strange’, and at times, literally ‘alien’ is not a compliment, it feels like a misreading of the work I do. It is a deepens the othering of the way I as an Asian minority in commercial, dance & art spaces already experience. I don’t exist to ornament your work, and my experience through traditional dance training to arrive in my queer, ungendered, glitching state is my work, my practise… my authorship. I wonder if other movers feel this- it’s a hard divide when your work resides in your body. Lately I’ve been saying ‘no’ more. It takes back power from being misunderstood for a type of performer that I am not. Sometimes this misunderstanding brings me grief.

referencing/crediting within performance + movement work is hard to grasp? I really think people should pay homage to their movement influences too. Especially the ones who, like me, move in the by-lines of style, form, & tradition- to have no standard to please is freeing, but at times it feels like a free pass for people to cherry pick and reappropriate movement styles with a resounding optical emptiness. No one owns movement, for sure, but it’s painfully clear when the movement is led from aesthetic flatness.

Some mover friends I feel inspired by and often have you in my mind’s eye when I daydream,,, I’m sure somehow you enter my dance too. wish we could dance together soon
@allthatjasss @jameywamey @saskiahorton

Moving to @grey_waters’s 同一片天空下 thinking about Chinese dance- dreamt of my team mates by @chanfyx

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3 years ago

NATURES MORTES @anne_imhof October 2021

I feel like I haven’t given this time enough weight in my mind. Was it 9 shows? I can’t remember. Every night my calves pulsed and my lungs burnt deeper, although it wasn’t about pushing myself harder, but accommodating the way my spirit wished to move in ways I could only gamble with my body. I had just collected myself from a month of burn out, fatigue and couldn’t trust my body. Yet I feel my most powerful and true when I come apart beyond myself. Most days I am slow and pining, gestating almost, and too close to forgetting this is the art that I make and fulfils me. My glitching body, both trained and inept, is so grateful.

This makes sense to me, and that to come from me, watching myself, feels like a dream. Thank you for the space to be this free, even from myself, and thus returning to Core Mode: Rage Fairy, helping me believe in my body again, and again when I watch this now. Thank you all who see me in these states.

Thank you to Eduardo @amorprojects for your attention and sending this to me by @chanfyx

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5 years ago

@vmas for @madonna x @ybdg_4

Unfathomable- a dream I have never dared to conjure, I held no vocabulary of possibility to formulate such a desire. Entering with an abstract understanding of what I would walk into and experience, only forming meaning as I lived it. Life is absurd! I found out on the MRT in Singapore, my homeland and glasshouse… the small city I grew up in, young and emboldened only enough to will myself towards a life boundlessly larger than I knew to be possible. Beyond-belief seems to be the sensation.

PINCH ME WE OPENED THE VMAs FOR MADONNA

Thank you everyone- worlds were poured into these short seconds 🔫 by @chanfyx

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4 days ago

@poshmark Try Yourself On by the inimitable @heyimleaaa 💗

This was a really special one. The amount of detail and imagination, team work and dedication was immense. I got goosebumps when I first saw the storyboard. Thank you to the wonderful crew who kept me safe, and made the long days memorable. Thank you to the creative team for the trust and vision. Everyday on set was breathtaking... I’m so excited to share how wonderful this film has become 🎡

Someone tell little girl chan her dreams came true and SHE’S GOT HER OWN TRANSFORMATION SCENE!!!!! 🧚🏼‍♀️🍬 🪸🪄I always wished and wished to be magic and sparkling. I’m never gonna be over this! by @chanfyx

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a month ago

Inaccurate compilation of some of my days back home in Singapore- speeding and absorbing and attempting to live quickly and fully in my home that I visit- me, an incongruous shard in time. It appears, abruptly known to me by how much I do not know it. I crave to belong in a place that doesn’t exist. I miss myself, and am so myself all at once. I also have been in a perpetual food coma. The fog in my head is as the haze that surrounds us. I cry at the poem sent to me on the MRT in the morning, counting down my days again. So hurriedly happy. by @chanfyx

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a month ago

I am always the dominant male in the room 🐈‍⬛ by @chanfyx

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2 months ago

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3 months ago

I found a song I’ve been singing on repeat. My cat cried for me and I woke up, jolting out a nightmare. In the dream I saw my own guilt and terror, the one I cannot face. My fingers swell and oppose me in protection- again I plead with my body to help me dream bigger. I took a shower in the morning and my hair soaked into my robe, the scent of beginning confused as a weight blooms within my arms. The dial smoothes without warning, caught just before the light dissolves. Something gives way. I spend the day in motion only internally. I collect the way I’ve sped through my recent memory. What do I remember. Who have I been? How am I so far away from who I was last week? I watched a documentary on a woman who has a seven-second memory, who writes incessantly in record of her fleeing present. She beams. She decides which are the important moments to preserve without doubt. by @chanfyx

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3 months ago

CONFESSIONS II
@madonna x @ybdg_4
Directed by @torso.solutions

A delight to join ybdg after years of missed cities. Also a delight to 🔋 for mfing Madonna.  
YBDG: @nicaxroses @dotasita @manu_anima @zarasands @hodkinsonluke @don_tanita @chanfyx @missmamoree @mercedes666_2 @keilanstaff @chrisowen__
@alexthirkle01 @emmabelabed @danni_h_perry @arcanjiel 
Intimacy Coordinator: @stellamoss  Hair: @keiterada
Makeup: @dashataivas

Production @division.global @voodoo.pictures
EP @francoislarpin
Line producer @_choppywaters_
Production manager @mrstandukar
Lead production assistant @heevahamed
Production coordinator @philippinevieubled
1st AD @benjjji
Movement Director @nicolas_huchard by @chanfyx

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4 months ago

Into Song Again is officially out 🪽💭

For your ears and your transit journeys, deep listening sessions or gentle life accompaniment. I have been listening to this for years, many versions of it I couldn’t bear at times… yet now, in its new public form I somehow love and embrace it more and more.

My dear @max1mus.now, our track is finally out in the world! When we made it you told me you didn’t want me to just let this sit in my computer. It did for a bit, but not anymore! I’m so proud of what we have made and cannot wait to share the rest 🫂

Written and composed by: Chantel Foo
Performed by: chantel
Produced by: Maximus and chantel
Mixing and Mastering: Maximus

Out on Bandcamp if you would like to support me by purchasing the track. Streaming links in bio- most major platforms x by @chanfyx

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4 months ago

Into Song Again premieres exclusively on @atwoodmagazine. Words and interview by @mitchmosk

What a delight and thrill to finally be able to share this beautiful film with everyone. I cannot say enough how deeply wondrous it was to weave this film together with the team and to move, with intermingling affinities and trust, to create this piece of art with pure belief. An even greater pleasure and gift, that this film would accompany the release of my very first song. Thank you everyone. This couldn’t have existed without you. Thank you for creating a world for Into Song Again.

A film by Orion Isaacs and chantel
Directed by Orion Isaacs @orionisaacs_
Performed by chantel @chanfyx @chantelchantelchantelchantel

Executive Producer: chantel
Assistant Producer: Siufan Adey @s__fan.ad

Director of Photography: Dajiana Huang @dajianahuang
Camera Assistant: Kate Lovrinov @kateklvrnv

Gaffer: Ollie Wilkinson-Avis of Jolly Lights @jolly.lights

Editor: Clementine Bartaud @clementine_editing
Colourist: Alex O’Brien @alexo.colour

Location: Plant Face Studio @plantfacestudio

BTS Photography: Siufan Adey @s__fan.ad
Artwork: Mitch Fielder @mitchfielder
Kindly supported by 1314 FamilyStyle

This film has been made possible by the generous coming-together of trust and belief. Special thanks to Milo Van Giap, Urjuan Toosy and Mitch Fielder.

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Into Song Again
Written and Performed by Chantel Foo
Produced by @max1mus.now and chantel
Mix and master by @max1mus.now by @chanfyx

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