Chloe Dechery

A Duet Without You is a solo performance trying (and inevitably failing) to be a duet. Re-enacting a pas-de-deux without a partner, Chloé Déchery embarks on a series of intermittent conversations with collaborators Simone Kenyon, Deborah Pearson and Pedro Inês. Beyond distance and despite absence, Chloé and her collaborators try to experience what it means to be in the same room together and what it means to be apart.

The piece, with its contemplative tone and poetic atmosphere, playfully incorporates the voices from the absent collaborators within a vivid soundscape and the carefully crafted stage design reveals a rich visual tapestry; which alternatively evokes a Parisian café, a woman lost at sea, a Flemish painting. Paper waves bristling in the wind, a pair of hands coated in talc, a room plunged in darkness…the mundane and delicate material progressively converge to create a sonic and visual poem on stage.