‹Total› is a solo that has more to do with dancing in the third person than speaking in the first.
On the one hand, gestures catch a ride on the body, on the other hand, the body rides the gestures. Temporal drag, kicking up dust, making a smokescreen. The closer the dance gets to the body, the further the body gets out of view.
On the one hand, it waves to you.
On the other hand, you look back.
On the other, the hand is another.

The Australian choreographer Angela Goh’s new solo continues her investigation between the too obvious and the really weird, emerging from the uncanny valley, touching pattern recognition, diving into the unsettling depths of the body, the sticky fluidity of appearance, disappearing into webs of unresolved twilight, where details shapeshift, the monstrous turn into a cuddle and the enormous is captured in a gaze.
Angela Goh’s work unfolds a world of its own through a highly unique artistic practice.

With and by Angela Goh
Made possible with support from Create New South Wales, ReadyMade Works, Critical Path
Co-produced by Ob/scene Festival, Idea Museum (Leeum)

Angela Goh is an Australian dancer and choreographer interested in the dynamics between embodied space and the politics of representation. Creating oblique relations between bodies and institutional spaces structural power relations regarding visibility, agency and voice are made tangible, playing with surfaces and depth, organicity and technology, personal and artificial.

Her work has been presented internationally for example in Haus der Kunst, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Sydney Opera House, Performance Space New York and Taipei Performing Arts Center. She was awarded the Keir Choreographic Award in 2020, a Green Room Award for Most Outstanding Creation in 2023, the Create NSW Performing Arts Fellowship in 2019, and the inaugural Sydney Dance Company Fellowship in 2020-21. In 2024 she will present her work in the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Angela lives and works on Gadigal Land in Sydney, Australia.