from left to right: Felicity Provan: cornet, vocals, small instruments; Lily Kiara: dance, voice; Barbara Pereyra: dance, voice; Ada Rave: saxophone, clarinet, small instruments | photo by Guido Vrebos
Chrysalis, a quartet with two dancers and two musicians makes work where individual practices merge into collective, collaborative work through deep listening to the wider worlds and playful interactions. Our ongoing project is named ‘Beneath the Surface of the Earth’.
This name comes from our first performance in March 2023 with the same title. We played at Splendor in Amsterdam, hosted by Anne LaBerge. It was then performed at the Doek Festival ‘Art of the Outskirts’ in Amsterdam in the same year.
Beneath the Surface of the Earth
Moving into the depths through interconnectedness. Life. (Re)Source. Renewal.
Ground water. Reservoir. Ocean. Womb. Sometimes it’s necessary to descend into the earth for knowledge, power and transformation. And then we must come up again to share what we’ve found.
“Far beneath the surface of the earth, hidden from the sun and the moon, upon the shores of the Starless Sea, there is a labyrinthine collection of tunnels and rooms filled with stories.”
– Erin Morgenstern, in: The Starless Sea
In September 2025 we spent one week together in residency at De Rinck in Brussels, Belgium, where we had the chance to learn more about our collaboration. We performed ‘SED | THiRST’ at De Rinck and at Tictac Art Centre that same week.
…and what will join this standing up
and the ones who stood without sweet company
will sing and sing
back into the mountains and
if necessary
even under the sea
we are the ones we have been waiting for
– June Jordan, from: Poem for South African Women
video @tictacartcentre Brussels, 2025
photo by Zsolt Szederkenyi