9 ACTS
[Choreographer.dancer.][performance.][5.30h][2025]
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[curator.]
[performers.]
[director.writer.]
[choreographer.]
[sound artist.]
[visual artist]
Sabrina Belenzier
Natia Chikvaidze. Tano Chkheidze. Gvanca Enukidze.
Davit Khorbaladze.
Natia Chikvaidze.
Scott McCulloch
Jia Jia Chen
[9 ACTS] is a multidisciplinary performance involving dance, text, and live clay installation that explores the transformative potential of form without altering its essence—pushing this transformation to the point of a radical systemic reshaping.
At its core, the performance is a structured cycle of actions involving clay in its various states—wet, dry, flattened, folded, imprinted, dissolved, decomposed, and fragmented—ultimately placing the material in an unnatural, ever-changing condition. Through this process, [9 ACTS] examines the tension between form and formlessness, stability and collapse.
Clay, an ancient and symbolically charged material, carries a history of shaping civilizations, embodying both creation and destruction.
This performance investigates its contemporary relevance: how does this malleable substance resonate with a world marked by political turmoil, war, systemic decay, and the urgent need for transformation?
A collaborative ensemble—a director, writer, choreographer, visual artist, composer, and three performers—constructs a continuously shifting, playful loop of movements and sound. Improvised music and an evolving sonic landscape accompany a series of seemingly aimless yet precise actions. [9 ACTS] resists the reproduction of rigid, masculine structures of power, instead embracing fluidity, dissolution, and the subversion of form.