Biography
Lydia McGlinchey was born in Sydney, Australia, and is currently living in Brussels. She is a dancer and performance maker. She also weaves textiles, which she uses as scenography.
She studied in P.A.R.T.S for five years where she received her MA in choreography and training in dance. Lydia has worked with Alix Eynaudi on her project Noa+Snow presented in Tanznacht Berlin and Wien Modern. Additionally she has made contributions to the final publications of the Noa+Snow book/catalogue which launched at the Austrian Museum of Folk Art in Vienna and published by BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE. She performed in The Honey House by Nathan Ooms, which was selected for Het theatre festival and presented in the Ghent International Festival at CAMPO, as well as in the Love At First Sight Festival in Antwerp. Lydia has worked with Simon Van Schuylenbergh on his project Ne Mosquito Pas which was presented in Decoratelier and De Singel in 2022.
In residentie FERAL
02.09.2024 – 13.09.2024
Feral is a series of four staged landscapes which assume contrastingly different imaginaries of body and place. This work invites the spectators to observe the transformations of each landscape over the duration of the performance. During the making of this work much thought was given to how the iteration/presentation of bodies and places mediate individual and group relationships to the environment. Feral therefore works towards corrupted, filthy, excessive, toxic, monstrous, ruined, horrific, fractured, and glamorous landscapes.
This work explores the notion of ‘charge’ as a way to style the body’s movements and presence. Lydia has developed textile pieces used as scenographic objects, paying close attention to texture, and the production of different volumes/perspectives.
The stage becomes a void, an opulent dumpsite, a synthetic desert, a horizon. The performers become screeches, deviant figures, inanimate, hollowed out surfaces.
This work employs the theatre’s potential to create an experience of suspension, rather than instruction.