Thalia Stone

I Stand For You is a solo performance work with spoken text, voice, and movement. It challenges saneist structures of rationality, sense, and reason that determine how meaning is recognised and validated. Through shifting relations between language, sound, and physical action, the work dislocates learned sense structures to explore the redistribution of significance within altered states of consciousness. Small shifts in interpretation carry high stakes. What – and who – is heard and recognised as coherent? Who is not? Attention turns to the conditions of listening, where bias and hierarchies of perception shape what is received as credible, rational, or objective – and what is dismissed as noise. Moving between clarity and contradiction, humour and tension, the work produces moments of illusion, revealing meaning as contingent on the conditions through which it is heard. What does it mean that ‘sanity’ is often sustained by tuning out of distress and overriding instinct?

choreography & performance: Thalia Stone / sound design & vocal coach: Moa Holgersson / costume design: Nell Schwan / producer: ATD Productions, SNDO Co-Production

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