Dorchel Haqq. Video still by Laura Carella. Courtesy the artist.
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closed mouths dont get fed is an immersive performance installation by 2024 Artist-in-Residence Dorchel Haqq that explores the genesis of human consciousness. In a two-part experiential journey, the work examines the formative moments when we first recognize our desires and develop the autonomy to express them. In a world constructed through sculpture, movement, and sound, Dorchel navigates a home environment where objects become metaphors for the emerging weight of consciousness of a NYC upbringing where one is influenced by their environment, and illuminates the profound developmental milestone of finding one's voice and agency through play and participation.
Dorchel is in collaboration with Hakeem Olayinka for the set design and Kneaku Ashe for the soundscape.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Dorchel Haqq, raised in Harlem, began to embody history at the Dance Theater of Harlem. With an education from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts then later at the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase College, Haqq initiated her discovery of the body as a political statement. While studying at Purchase College, Haqq’s education expanded at Korea National School of the Arts. The development of Haqq’s movement practices induces an imaginative world focusing on the care of the nervous system. Haqq explores fantasy and abstracts the echo of transgenerational trauma in her body of culture through film, sound exploration, and object investigation. These explorations were made possible through the Springboard-curated Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation Founder’s Residency, Gallim’s Moving Women AIR, Leimay’s Incubation AIR, a City Artist Corps grant, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts emergency grant. Haqq is an adjunct lecturer at Purchase College. Haqq performed with AIM by Kyle Abraham for two years before immersing in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More in Shanghai. Haqq expanded her sensory research in 2024 as an AiR at CPR – Center for Performance Research and Baryshnikov Arts Center. Haqq is currently a guest artist in Emursive Theater’s Life And Trust and a 2025 Movement Research Van Lier Artist of Color Fellow.