Resolution: Penelope Klamert, Kat Korsimaa, and Tiegan Doyle

Resolution 2027

1: Brown-haired dancer in white twists with her arms raised across her face, creating a feeling of concealment and tension. 2: Image of a female presenting person kneeling on top of a large paper, with both of their arms and one leg stretched out. Their light hair is saturated with black paint, and its being dragged onto the paper creating abstract patterns. 3: Spotlit against total darkness, three performers in dark suits play political figures in excessive laughter: one with a wide mouth laugh, one with arms raised and one doubled over, hair spilling forward.

About Resolution: Penelope Klamert, Kat Korsimaa, and Tiegan Doyle

The Web We Spun by Penelope Klamert

The Web We Spun explores the invisible structures that shape our lives, from social expectations and cultural norms to the frameworks we create for ourselves. Blending popping with physical theatre, the performers weave, thread and pull against one another, creating an ever-changing web of connection, restriction and support. As the performers move through the web, the work explores the tension between safety and entanglement, freedom and responsibility, and our desire to escape the structures that shape us.

About Penelope Klamert

Penelope Klamert is a London-based Austrian artist working primarily in hip hop theatre, with a movement practice rooted in popping. She has performed with companies including Far From The Norm and Boy Blue, alongside commercial and screen work. Her artistic interests lie in bringing the complexity and different layers of human experience into visual and physical contexts.

Cast and Creatives

Choreographer: Penelope Klamert

Dancers: Sophie Bradbury, Poppydene Lingham

SOFT GUT GOSPEL by Kat Korsimaa

SOFT GUT GOSPEL explores the tension of feeling “not queer enough, not straight enough” as a pansexual individual moving between queer and heterosexual spaces.

Drawing on bisexuality as an umbrella term that includes pansexuality, the work confronts biphobia, erasure and the pressure to prove one’s queerness. The performance examines the performativity of sexuality and how identity is felt in the body.

Hair becomes both an intimate part of the body and a visible marker of queerness, whilst also serving as the tool used to paint directly onto the performance surface. Movement, hair and paint create traces of resistance, uncertainty and self-definition, questioning who gets to decide what queerness looks like.

About Kat Korsimaa

Kat Korsimaa is an interdisciplinary performance artist working at the intersection of movement and visual art. Her practice is influenced by contemporary dance, somatic and improvisational practices, and experimental visual art. She is interested in the body as both a source of knowledge and a site where personal, social and cultural expectations are negotiated. Her practice is rooted in embodied research and scored improvisation, using paint and mark-making as extensions of movement and ways of translating physical experience into material form. Rather than seeking fixed definitions, her work explores how an embodied sense of self can become a source of conviction without needing external permission.

Cast and Creatives

Performer: Kat Korsimaa

Original score composed by: Torben Sylvest

Photography: Jem Chrisope

Is This Bliss by Tiegan Doyle

Is This Bliss explores the tension between awareness and apathy. Within this modern realm of politics, it asks what happens when protecting your peace means looking away? Inspired by the idiom ‘ignorance is bliss’, the dancers navigate a society where disengagement feels easier than facing what is happening around them.

Blending contemporary dance with the raw physicality of krump, the work moves between restraint, rupture and collective intensity. As awareness spreads, so does the question of responsibility: when the world feels overwhelming, how much can we choose not to see?

Is This Bliss does not offer answers or ask for outrage. Instead, it asks what we see, what we ignore, and what it costs to remain unaware. What are you choosing to ignore?

About Tiegan Doyle

Tiegan Doyle is a London-based choreographer and dancer creating work at the intersection of contemporary dance and hip hop. Her practice explores power, identity and the ways social and political forces are embodied through movement. A graduate of Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, she combines physical intensity with questions surrounding collective experience. Her choreography has been presented at Sadler’s Wells and developed through platforms including Open Art Surgery and Common Threads. As a queer artist, Tiegan is interested in creating work that makes space for complexity, contradiction and lived experience, inviting audiences to question what shapes the way we move through the world.

Cast and Creatives

Choreographer: Tiegan Doyle

Dancers: Isla Sutherland, Chelsea Breeze, Hudson Hudson, Rachael Johnson

Assistant Choreographer: Iri-Elisabeth Kristiansen

Composer: Will Davenport

Composer: Juliet Merchant