Both ill and well, neither alive nor deceased, both protagonist and antagonist, neither perpetrator nor victim, both monster and scream queen, neither desire nor disgust, both dissociation and euphoria.
shivr is a body horror dance solo by choreographer Ar Utke Ács. The piece portrays the fictional character shivr, built as a mosaic of lived experiences. Through shivr the performance investigates the chronically ill body as a non-binary position and world making departing from a queer, sick body, rather than pre-disabled body-mind. shivr sheds light on unapparent aspects of a sick dancing body and the process of coming to a voice through embodiment rather than didactics. shivr disrupts the idea of the body as a singular entity and the self as consistent.
The performance uses body horror as an expression of the chronically ill experience, where the fear and horror can be a response to the transformations within ones own body as well as the stigmas met from ones surroundings. shivr claims the complexity of embodying both and, neither nor in one single body.
shivr is a being of the twilight. Living between the realms of the ill and the well: undying ongoingly. A crack in your porcelain politics.
shivr was perfrmed at MDT 29.10 - 16.11.2025
This iteration of Ravel has been supported by Ar Utke Ács.