CAMILLE JEMELEN / KEEN + KAT STAUB

PROJECT // At once we fall

BIOGRAPHY

Camille Jemelen / Keen is a trans neurodivergent artist, soul and spirit world connection igniter and energy healer. They incarnated within an ancestral lineage of Alsatian people, currently a region in France that has been disputed between whichever iterations of the French and German states occurred throughout the past many centuries. Camille’s healing journey so far has been devoted to accessing more of their own soul template and spiritual gifts through developing a deeper embodied relationship with the Earth and Spirit realms. They feel profound reverence for the divine nature of all things as well as for the sacred wisdom of ancestral landkeeper lineages that continue to guide the Human Collective towards more wholeness. Camille has studied numerous somatic practices as well as movement and voice improvisation techniques. They practice Reiki, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy as well as psychic Earth attunement modalities. They hold a MA in Media Studies from Concordia University and a BA in Dance, Context, Choreography from HZT Berlin.

My name is Kat Staub (she/they) and I work with dance, choreography, performance, visual art, drag, music, social work, collective processes, healing work, witchcraft, and teaching/facilitating. My work revolves around themes of unconscious/hidden knowledge, queer perspectives on sexuality, sickness and storytelling, sometimes flamboyant and sometimes intimate with both spiritual, grotesque and satirical elements. I hold a BA in choreography from the University of Arts in Berlin, but I consider my education consisting of a manifold of more or less institutionalized frames and constellations that I’ve encountered throughout my life. And my teachers in art, life, social work and poetic and spiritual processes are and have been many.

DETAILS OF THE PROJECT
At once we fall is a new collaborative project between artists Camille Jemelen / Keen and Kat Staub. We are interested in working with the intersection of grief and lust as a starting point for our research. Through using a variety of frameworks and techniques including voice improvisation, dance, spiritual drag, kinky role play and poetry we want to experiment with creating a patchwork of choreographic compositions that explores the erotic potentialities of playing in the underworld of the psyche. We will use body and voice to guide each other into queer conjurings of spirits, mythical and cultural archetypes. What happens when a doll and a cowboi meet? How does Persephone dance as she moves across thresholds? How do these archetypal characters support our grief and how do they turn us on?

DETAILS OF THE PROJECT

At once we fall is a new collaborative project between artists Camille Jemelen / Keen and Kat Staub. We are interested in working with the intersection of grief and lust as a starting point for our research. Through using a variety of frameworks and techniques including voice improvisation, dance, spiritual drag, kinky role play and poetry we want to experiment with creating a patchwork of choreographic compositions that explores the erotic potentialities of playing in the underworld of the psyche.

We will use body and voice to guide each other into queer conjurings of spirits, mythical and cultural archetypes. What happens when a doll and a cowboi meet? How does Persephone dance as she moves across thresholds? How do these archetypal characters support our grief and how do they turn us on?