Porous
(June, 2023)Canal dream festival
Canal Dream CIC & Slash Arts; in collaboration with Word on the Water, Global Generation, Floating Garden, Dangerous Kitchen, Aranya Theater Festival (China)
Site-specific performance on a drifting boat
Choreographer : Siyuan Meng
Performers: Siyuan Meng
Qianzi Song
Porous is a slow, site-responsive ritual performed on a drifting boat along Regent’s Canal. Within a skeletal shelter of branches and gauze, the performer leans, folds, and breathes—interrupting the hardness of the urban skyline. Movement here becomes attunement: to water, to wind, to strangers on the towpath.
In Meng’s hands, porosity becomes political—a soft refusal of rigidity, an embodied openness in the face of structural pressure.
LONDON
Regent’s Canal
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