- Performance
Performance
Our performance programme is a space for experimental and interdisciplinary live art practices, where artists are supported to take risks, and audiences can discover exciting, original and accessible theatre.
Our performance programme is a space for experimental and interdisciplinary live art practices, where artists are supported to take risks, and audiences can discover exciting, original and accessible theatre.
An experimental, improvised performance and generative audio work, that tells the story of the recently rediscovered Ceirch du Bach (Black Oat seed).
Join us for a special performance from legendary free-improv vocalist Maggie Nicols and experimental percussionist and performance artist Dan Johnson. With support from Cardiff-based sound artist, Heledd C Evans.
Featuring music, rap, and a historical twist, this bold new play for children explores Britain’s black ancestry, challenging us to question the stories handed down from generation to generation.
The Goner is someone who is doomed with no chance of survival—bound to death, a lost and hopeless case. This work follows this figure on a sensuous, suspense-filled and fearsome choreographic journey into the psychological depths of the Goner’s horror.
This Halloween, it’s time to activate the villainess that lives within all of us at ‘The Bad B Kiki Ball'!
It’s the post-apocalyptic world. There’s only one contraceptive pill left. Do you give it to your 19-year-old daughter or keep it for yourself? Is it better to be a 40-year-old grandmother or a 40-year-old new Mum. These are the dilemmas facing Emma Doran aged 39 and 7/8’s, even though the most obvious outcome is neither. If turning 40 is the start of something new, what is it the end of?
Blood Show is a trans celebration of destroying things, including ourselves, in order to create something new.
40 years on from the 1984-85 miners’ strike, join us for an evening of celebration and learning with Strike Out.
Artist and performance-maker Eve Stainton presents their choreographic touring work, Impact Driver, featuring welding, movement and live sound by Leisha Thomas and Mica Levi, and performed by Tink Flaherty, Imani Mason Jordan, Romeo Roxman Gatt and Eve Stainton.
Join composer and producer Malthus’ for a hedonistic, cross-genre performance.
How do we want to live? Celebrations at The Funeral of Capitalism combines live art, theatre, dance and music, in a meditative final ritual that transforms into a party and communal meal.
Offering hypnotic improvisations around traditional instruments, electro-acoustic/DIY electronic objects and voice, Boer creates a vibrant universe that is both vulnerable and brutal.
We present music, sound, movement, dance, theatre, conversation, workshops and happenings in live contexts. Our commitment to experimental performance speaks to our rich history of supporting radical live art practices, and our unique position in Cardiff as a multi-artform venue with the capacity to support artists to develop their practice and share their work dynamically.
We support artists engaged in the idea of live practice: what does it mean to be with an audience? How can this dynamic be a space to sense/learn/be with each other – to think critically and collectively. Our performance programme calls and responds to our wider programme including visual art and film, forming a constellation of ideas and practices. Our work is agile, collaborative and committed to our community – artists, audiences, neighbours, staff, and cultural workers – on our doorstep, in Wales and beyond.
From local emerging artists to international touring productions, from comedy cabaret to new writing.
The latest information on how to book, ticket prices and our updated ticket terms and conditions.
Chapter is a registered charity – by hosting your event here, you’ll help us to carry on supporting Wales’ artists and creative communities.
In this challenging climate for charities, by giving £5 a month, or through an annual £60 payment, you’ll be responsible for supporting everything we do here - from our free family films, to working with and for our communities and the hundreds of artists, filmmakers, performers, choreographers, musicians and creatives, we work with every single year to ensure our city remains a thriving creative hub.
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