Symbiotic Matter
Chimaera/ Silke Hamers, Leticia Ferreira
- Performance
- Installatie
What does it mean to be a child of the universe?
Symbiotic Matter is a performance-installation, set in an futuristic and pre-historical space-time. Embodied by 2 musicians and 2 dancers, the narrative follows the evolution of an unseen two-headed creature as it transforms from a symbiotic body into two autonomous bodies. Through dance, live music, voice, poetry, and natural substances, the performance depicts an interconnected ecosystem that emerged after humanity’s final breath. Palestinian visual artist Ismaïl Matar created an all-pervading Arabic calligraphy installation, with the letters serving as a binding force in the space. For a brief moment, the audience experiences this organism up close, as its co-caretakers, held by original music compositions written and performed by Edoardo Parente and Fedra Coppens. This performance pre-premiers at Bodies in Space (Brussels) on November 21st and showcases at Arca Theater (Ghent) on December 5th 2026.
This production is financially supported by Code Dans + and Sabam for Culture.
21.11.2026, 20:00
Club space - Bodies in Space
Zelliksesteenweg 65
1082 Sint-Agatha-Berchem
The performance will happen on the ground floor.
You can take place inside of the installation.
About Chimaera/ Silke Hamers, Leticia Ferreira
Chimaera is a Brussels-based international performing arts collective, in which young creators and experienced artists meet. Found by Silke Hamers, Fedra Coppens and Lotte de Munck, and joined by international performing artists, the collective works post-genre: from original compositions to contemporary classical repertoire, dance, performance, and text, flowing together into hybrid, scoreless works. At the core of Chimaera’s practice is performance as an organism, in which humans, environments and technology are in constant interaction.
With a recent premier of their new production 'Mycelium' in KMSKA, they are working towards the premier of their first installation performance Symbiotic Matter.
Silke Hamers, maker of Symbiotic Matter, is a 21-year-old dancer, singer- songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and maker, graduated from P.A.R.T.S. in 2025 and currently building onto her interdisciplinary practice, solo as well as in collaboration, such as SILKE X JAMES (Annalena Fröhlich), the electronic deconstructive music duo and the one with choreographer Leticia Ferreira.
Leticia Ferreira, choreographer of Symbiotic Matter, is a Brazilian dancer, choreographer, and movement researcher based in Europe. Trained in classical, contemporary, and urban dance, her work weaves body, memory, and technology into poetic forms, as explored in her 2024 solo WR@NG M1D34. She collaborated with the improvisation collective L.I.E. and recently joined Cullberg as a dancer apprentice.