THE CHAOS CONVERSATION
Chancz Perry and Kimmy Kat
Multi-disciplinary artist Chancz Perry (Regina) and singer/songwriter/artist Kimmy Kat (Cleveland) explore femininity, freedom, and living in a state and place of unknowingness. This project is presented by the Consulate General for Canada in Detroit.
ACT 1
“My Morning.”
This is my body’s morning routine.
I wake up at 6am to the quiet.
A hopeless space, A gasket case ready to blow as soon as my eyes officially open. So at 6am, I pretend that I have friends and I am “thems” that have the jewels of the oceans.
Breath self.
Only 30 more minutes till I leave self.
Cherish every moment I can be self.
It's an emotional piece I sculpted with my former self.
So before I reject my piece. I self-reflect my piece, because if I didn’t have these 30 minutes, I’m scared I will never ever say again, “My name is Kimpiid, and that’s that piece.”
This is my body’s morning routine...
It’s 7am again.
I crack my bones and elongate my sense of self so much that it feels like it’s tearing inside. It’s blaring inside.
An empty body walking to relieve Itself, I can’t believe myself. I have been without so much that this piss is my only peace today I held.
8am runs in and so do I.
Complete with a showering on chimeric tunes, sit back and remember the views. Before I leave, I clothe my body. Consider the fact maybe I’ll be more, if I control my body. Oddly? There’s something about my scars that might grab somebody.
I might let a leg show and let conscious people know that I don’t love my body. I don’t want attention, I just want someone to really see my body.
I want them to understand me enough that they will take my shoe and write their name because I am human enough to be somebody.
Fuck my morning routine!
Funny how I want to be seen to love my body.
Funny how I said all of this and forgot about me like.
Like I’m not a person in my body.
How did my morning routine come for the neck of the body?
Apology: I'll be more careful when it comes to how I expose my body, what I owe to the body and how I roll the body.
I’m sorry to get deep in this mirror. It's the last time today I get to project on my body. I guess my morning routine was a self hating hobby, and I was there in the lobby waiting for the front row seat to see the massacre I lay upon me. I'm happy to say this is MY BODY, and not anymore, my routine.
ACT 2
ACT 3
THE ARTISTS
CHANCZ PERRY
Aside from spending his time in graduate studies exploring the utility in art therapy programming, Chancz has spent over 30 years in the entertainment industry – on stage, screen, and behind the scenes. This multifaceted producer, choreographer, and triple-threat performer was nominated for two Jessie Richardson Awards and the recipient of the Vancouver Sun Reader’s Choice Award for Entertainer of the Year. Some film and theatre credits include Mr. Magoo, Bye Bye Birdie, Charlie Horse Music Pizza, West Side Story, Kiss Me Kate, Five Guys Named Moe, Hip Hop Hoop Dance, and the Gabriel Dumont Wild West Show.
While continuing his practice as an interdisciplinary artist, Chancz has been an Artist in Residence in Regina Public Schools and a sessional instructor at the University of Regina (Media, Arts, and Performance Department; Kinesiology and Health Studies Department). He also carried several positions at Globe Theatre where he was the Educational Outreach facilitator who helped to bring creation-based theatre programming into marginalized schools and community organizations; the Shumiatcher Sandbox Series coordinator who helped local artists and production teams to platform theatrical creations; and a Theatre School Faculty specializing in creative expression with children of various ages.
Chancz’s purpose is to bring communities together through art, entertainment, culture, and ways of knowing. In his performances, Chancz offers inspiration, distraction and/or education, using approaches that are traditional, progressive, critical, or a mix. “I hope people take away an extraordinary artistic ability that inspires them to pursue their creative endeavours and natural impulses. I want them to realize that they can have success in pursuing their dreams.” Check out more from Chancz: Twitter, Website, Instagram, Video Biography.
KIMMY KAT
A multi-talented Black, Trans Artist from Cleveland, Ohio. Kimmy is a Singer Songwriter, Dancer, Drag Queen and Actor. Kimmy has been Song-writing since she was 13, Leaning on that skill as a way of rewriting her chaotic reality and making physical situations playful. The foundation of her work is connected to her musical background. Musical theatre and Dance became a big part of her child life. She later found her voice through Solo music and Drag Performance. She is currently working on her first album with Producer Greg “Ghostly” Houston. The album projects a stimulating chimeric world that shows a vulnerable place in her sense of self. She values emotion and dreamlike ideas when in a creative ecosystem making partnership with Co-artist Chancz Perry a delight! Kimmy is Happy For the opportunity to be a part of the Social Distance Festival.
Check out more of Kimmy’s work on her website, Twitter, or Insta.
CREDITS:
The American Team
Co-Creator/Producer/Lead Artist - Kimmy Kat (Cleveland, Ohio, USA)
The Canadian Team
Co-Creator/Producer/Lead Artist - Chancz Perry (Regina, Saskatchewan, CAN)
Costumes: Cathy Means (Regina, Saskatchewan, CAN)
Make Up & Co-Stylist - Nicole Akan (Regina, Saskatchewan, CAN)
Photography - Fredau Photography (Regina, Saskatchewan, CAN)
Video - Jason Meyer (Regina, Saskatchewan, CAN)
Special thanks to the University of Regina's Costume Department and Sask Arts for their generous support!