My Rotten Skin (2018)

My Rotten Skin was a light philosophical performance about skin, touch and the object/subject dichotomy. Told through the perspective of inside/outside the body and inside/outside the performance space, the piece is split into two parts: classical choreography and soft choreography. Intense and intimate, the show was a mix between a dance, a manifesto and a discussion, and has the potential to show audience members their ability to create small revolutions in their daily lives.

This piece, along with Sublime Scum, gave me tremendous confidence in my ability to take narratives and address them towards live audiences. I found myself deeply appreciative of how complicated ideas could be broken down into objects, gestures and words and shared with singing and banter. For a short period I found myself thinking that I had finally found something in the creative world that I could confidently poor all of my time and energy into. I would graduate from ISAC convinced that I would somehow find a way to make a living as an artist an performer, unaware of the obstacles that awaited me.

Written and Performed by Andrée Chapatte
With text by Giulia Crispiani and voiceover by Cecilia Borettaz
Creative Process accompanied by Daniel Blangua-Gubbay
Created in the context of ISAC in Brussels

photo by @oqiefnwoigeweoi