Concept

Set at the intersection of choreography, installation, and durational performance, this practice-led research develops minor gesture as an operational compositional method for working with attention under conditions of perceptual and atmospheric pressure. Emerging from the solo research Breeze and extending toward the performance project Attentional Drift Study, the work investigates how movement is organised at the threshold where sensation begins to stabilise into image, meaning, or legibility. Wind, whether external (as in Breeze) or internalised as attentional drift, functions not as illustration but as a choreographic condition that continually reorganises balance, timing, tone, and decision-making in real time. Rather than representing violence, exclusion, or microaggression, the research examines how such forces operate as ambient structures that shape embodied attention prior to representation, and how they are encountered by a queer, neurodivergent body through micro-variations in breath, orientation, and perceptual focus. Drawing on minor theory, somatic practice, and distributed attention, the study proposes choreography as a method for tracking and modulating moments of capture—when movement begins to resolve into recognisable gesture—and for sustaining openness through attentional re-routing. In doing so, it reframes choreography not as the communication of meaning, but as the practice of remaining with instability long enough for alternative formations of sense to emerge.