Threshold is a new monthly evening of performance at Chapter, curated by a local artist, inviting local artists to contribute new/raw/unfinished performance in the spirit of play, exploration and exchange across disciplines. Threshold is an entry-point, a meeting place, and a boundary between practices/perspectives that we invite artists to cross.

The first iteration, Threshold: Scores for Self Adventure (without Salvation) is curated by Anushiye Yarnell with contributions from Tim Bromage, Tess Gray, Liam Wallace and Lara Ward.

To accompany this performance, on Saturday 5 April, natural voice singer and facilitator, Frankie Armstrong, will lead Voicing the Archetypes of Myth — a workshop exploring mythological archetypes using movement, visualisation, imagination and vocal play.

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Artist statement

“Each of us is host to and hosted by a multitude of beings: Ancestral, Living, Dying. Infested by the microbial, caught up by an invisible thread in the web of all life. Each of us is a battleground, a heist, a nuptial bed out of wedlock. We are bombarded by self-improvement as salvation. “We create our own reality” I hear it said. Alienated and adrift in this generation of affirmation.

A year or so before Hepzibah (my daughter) was born I needed something to hold it together for a solo work. Because my thinking is disparate, over connective, I decided to stick to the material of an online Jungian personality test as a score, responding to it choreographically rather like a game of charades. Scores for Self Adventure invites four artists to take a similar online test which will act as their score for the evening.”

— Anushiye Yarnell