Resolution Festival (10 June): Monica Tolia / Nimi Collective / Aura

Resolution Festival 2022: closing night triple bill of interdisciplinary performance art at The Place, London.

Performing artists Aura, Monica Tolia & Nimi Collective invite you into the worlds of their diverse practices, covering topics, such as, Asian diaspora experiences, gender identity, sound and movement. The audience will experience unique interdisciplinary approaches to live music, visual arts, sociology and contemporary dance.

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Join us for the last night of Resolution Festival 2022, on the 10th of June, at The Place: the centre for contemporary dance & emerging choreography in London. Experience the première of a line-up shaped by performance art-based approaches, where seven diverse performers reveal distinctive worlds.

PERFORMANCES:
The first artist to perform is Monica Tolia, a London-based visual & performing artist, alongside collaborating choreographer & dancer Ting-ning Wen. Their work – ‘a snake in the house means the family will never want’ – is a multi-sensory performance referencing an old Chinese proverb, and the departure point for articulating lived experiences & intimacies as Asian diaspora with cultural misunderstandings, intergenerational healing & transformation. Wearing sculptural costuming illuminated by light, and shifting form with the dancer’s movements, the performance projects visions of cultural & futuristic hybridity.
www.monicatolia.com | IG: @mon_tolia

The second performance comes from Nimi Collective, a group composed of independent artists Miia Mäkilä, Nikita De Martin, Katerina Sotiraki and Valentina López, all graduates of the MA Performance Making at Goldsmiths, UoL. Driven by their different backgrounds and various devising techniques in dance, music, sociology, and performance, they strive to play with physicality, text and sound. In their piece ‘STILL falling from zero’, they unravel the enigma about the value of movement. While building a soundscape from scratch, a nonsensical world is slowly being built.
IG: @nimicollective

The last performance of the night is from the artist, dancer and performer, Aura, who also holds a master’s degree in Performance Making from Goldsmiths, UoL. Her piece ‘7 ≈ 8’ is an immersive and ethereal experience, where two intersected bodyscapes unfold, mapping her identity and circumscribing her transition as a transgender woman. 7 ≈ 8 is the culmination of profound introspection and the courage to deconstruct and reconstruct one's own history, while sharing it.
www.auradafonseca.com | IG: @auradafonseca

LOCATION: The Place, 17 Duke's Rd, London WC1H 9PY
Nearest stations are Euston, King’s Cross, Russell Square and Euston Square.