A PLATE OF SCRAMBLED EGG

A plate of scrambled eggs poster. A plate formed of scrambled letters.

SCramble your brains and say goodbye to reality.

‘A Plate of Scrambled Egg’ is a multi-media, experimental movement piece, which I devised and directed, as part of SPLIT ENDS Showcase, March 2022. As a performance this work concerns itself with the choreographed chaos of life, the instability of reality and madness.

Utilising projection, costume lead movement, and collaborative physicality, ‘A Plate of Scrambled Egg’ distorts where beginning meets end, non-linearity forms the true nature of reality. From nothing emerges the whole.

We emerge, limbs tumbling, from behind a single white sofa. Comically strange. Each body entranced in a state of waiting, seemingly for a train. Techno music blasts, bodies fall in and out of sync. Patterns of coincidence flutter amid eyelashes. We snap out of one reality and into another, someone get enveloped by a 14ft scarf. We question which is real. Our shoes stand tapping in an elevator, waiting for us to catch up. And we realise- It’s all real.

A performer laying on a white sofa, illuminated exclusively by a single harsh light. The rest of the scene is pitch black.
Two performers sat on the sofa beginning contort into a ball shape.
A headshot of Miel, she is wearing a floral patterned white silk dress. Her head is rolled all the way back staring at the ceiling.
A shot of two performers sat on a white sofa, they are expressionless staring dead ahead. A heavy shadow is cast on the wall by their figures due to the harsh lighting of the scene.
A shot of a performer, their head and upper body shrouded in a red scarf their hand on their chin.
A shot of Miel's back in black underwear.
Two performers one sat expressionless staring dead ahead, the other with forearms touching, vertically covering their face.
A headshot of a performer in a suit and glasses with a heavy shadow cast against the wall behind them.
A close up of knees laid horizontally with blocky rainbow colouring projected onto them and the sofa.
Miel laying on a sofa with fluorescent yellow spots projection mapped onto the surface.
Miel contorted with arms on the ground with head facing the ceiling.
A line of people in dark amber lighting rolling their heads back.
Two people disappearing headfirst into a sofa, all that's left visible are their feet.

the process:

‘A Plate of Scrambled Egg’ had a long gestation period, from sketch-booking initial ideas and design concepts, (as featured below), to workshopping somatic exercises with sample groups of performers.

This project gave me ample experience in running workshops and audition spaces. Within any space I run, I try to embrace principles of care and bravery. My cast of six was intimate and intersectional, consisting of only AFAB performers. Each performer brings their own intersectional experience to the devised movement. Emphasising embodied practice within the choreographing process.

I view this work as ongoing still, it is a piece which holds the capacity to transform and evolve as it is performed.

Notebook sketches planning out the show. Stage design, props and costumes drawn in pencil and coloured with watercolour.
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