Artist statement
Chloe’s primary interests are the relationship between music and dance, the collaborative process, and the body’s capacity to invoke empathy, poetry and awe. She has been greatly influenced by her training in music, as a singer and violinist, her studies at Concordia University in communications and diversity studies, and her work in the community sector. She often creates using structured improvisation, allowing room for the performers’ intuition and spontaneity, which she finds can lead to serendipitous events within a controlled framework. Her movement vocabulary is concerned with shape, complexity and imagery.
Works
ASTÉRISME (2023)
Photo: Daniel Baylis
ASTÉRISME (2023) is the result of an encounter between Chloe Hart and Julien Oberson: a dancer-musician and a musician-dancer. The work derives from the score Danze per violino solo by Serbian-Canadian composer Ana Sokolović. The artists imagine a dance for the violin, and a melody for the body. ASTÉRISME is an intimate work that allows the spectator to discover the vulnerability of two beings who share a common spatial and sonic environment. Together, the two performers create a constellation of journeys and intersections between music and dance.
Hart and Oberson have also designed cultural mediation workshops to accompany the performance.
SUMMER SWISH (2018)
Photo: David Wong
In SUMMER SWISH (2018), the performers are guided by the music at twilight. Decorated with delicate lights reminiscent of fireflies, they illuminate their environment, allowing the public to see it through a new lens. The dancers’ gentle movement connects them, creating an intimate space in the concrete surroundings of the city. Tracing a path with sculptural bodies, the performers invite the audience into an endless summer night. The four dancers are gradually united, drawing inspiration from the natural elements to generate different qualities of movement that create an ever-changing constellation. Summer Swish plays perception and corporeal states, suggesting the possibility of life in urban environments.
CONSEQUENCE(S) (2019)
Photo: Kiana Brett
CONSEQUENCE(S) (2019) is a sensory exploration of the traces left by movement. It responds to the notion that dance is an ephemeral art form and questions the nature of that which we cannot retain tangibly. Through the use of the body, space, sound and material, the dancers’ paths rendered perceptible to the audience in an attempt to archive the traces left behind.
COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIONS
Photo: Jules Bédard
Chloe has worked as a choreographer on collaborative projects and commissions. Some of these works include SONGS THAT SHAN’T BE NAMED (2023), a co-creation with composer Alexandra Gorlin-Crenshaw, soprano Brittany Rae and dancer Cara Roy; A CHORUS LINE (2022), a production by NUVO – théâtre musical theatre; INVENTION #6 (2023), a commission for producer Kemal Payza.
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