Anything Whatsoever

In a space where everything is yet to be born, choreographer and dancer Katie Ward navigates through her own body archive while respecting its incompleteness. Anything Whatsoever offers a break, a space within which to condition imagination, to the two dozen audience members, who witness the emergence of meaning on a blank page, where our collective imagery can be rewritten. In the live performance, two juxtaposed scores are at play: the one written for the body of the performer and the audience’s spoken score. Their combined presence weaves a collective intimate reflection, fueled by Katie Ward’s dancing, at the centre of it all. The various states of the moving body that echo fragmented utterances and improvised dialogues serve as a mediation between reality, the uncanny, and the imaginary. This relational practice at the heart of Anything Whatsoever resists the temptation of the spectacular. A room of one’s own unfolds in this space, where collective musings surpass. Perhaps this is Art’s concern.