Siyuan Meng
(1998)
Siyuan Meng is a dance filmmaker, performer and choreographer working across screendance, ritual performance and sensory installation. Her practice weaves embodied memory, material poetics and diasporic presence into site-responsive choreographies of stillness and collective resonance.
Rooted in East Asian philosophy and informed by her nomadic experience between China and London, Meng’s work moves fluidly between film, performance, and installation to explore the interrelation between body, material, and environment. She approaches the moving body as both medium and archive—a vessel through which memory, displacement, and ritual are embodied and reconfigured. Her works emerge as meditations on belonging and impermanence, inviting audiences into subtle states of attention and shared presence.
Over the past years in London, Meng has developed a site-responsive choreographic language that dissolves boundaries between mediums and disciplines. In Porous (2023), a performance unfolding on a drifting boat built from branches and gauze, she examined permeability and the dialogue between body and landscape. Undone (2025) explored solitude and reflection through window-based performance; Balcony Whispers (2025) transformed a historical railway building into a living installation of breath and gesture; and Eye to Eye, Space in the Space (2025) staged an intimate domestic ritual, revealing the relational thresholds between performer, audience, and space.
Engaging with tactile materials such as paper, cloth, and salt, Meng extends her movement practice into a conversation with matter itself. These materials, drawn from East Asian craft traditions, become active collaborators—holding memory, fragility, and transformation. Through the aesthetics of slowness and care, she treats choreography as a meditative process: a language of attention that reconnects body, place, and time.
Her ongoing research investigates collective energy and relational presence—how embodied awareness can generate spaces of resonance, empathy, and healing. By weaving together screendance, somatic practice, and ritual gesture, Meng creates poetic frameworks that invite stillness in motion and presence in absence, cultivating a gentle resistance against fragmentation in contemporary life.
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