𝒞𝐻𝐼𝐿𝐿 𝒮𝒯𝒪𝑅𝐸
Chill Store (first iteration) is a collaborative performance project that critically examines the concept of “chilling effects”: subtle pressures exerted by social norms, surveillance and legal ambiguities, which create climates of self-censorship and social conformity. Through movement, text and social interaction, the project investigates how chilling effects echo both physiological reactions of bodies and natural processes of water, revealing a metaphorical—yet productive—entanglement between social norms, somatic experiences and environmental phenomena.
Choreographically, the project draws on the body’s own language of “chilling”; its involuntary reactions to fear, awe and exposure to cold, like spinal shivers, skin-crawling, muscular rigidity or numbness. These reactions mirror the invisible, yet startling, implications of social constraints. To probe how an experience of being “chilled” is produced and solidified across multiple mediums, the body’s visceral reactions are also likened to, and explored through, watery processes; like water condensing into fog or crystallizing into frost.
As a “social project”, Chill Store researches a dramaturgy that unfolds at the pace of relationship-building. It explores the conditions for social (un)rest and treats collective attention and consensual collaboration as vital creative resources.
Within this framework, choreography is approached as a relational strategy—traversing movement, hosting, text and reading—to (re)discover how we organize ourselves (and each other!) through linguistic, practical and ethical negotiations.
Dates:
28/03/2025 – 8:30PM (first iteration), Kule, Berlin.
13/12/2024 – 7:30PM (first iteration), Studio KG, Berlin.
CAMILLA BROGAARD 