RESOLUTION 26: Wild Guess, Westpfel Co. and Ming Chin HSIEH

Resolution Festival

The image is divided into three parts. On the left, collage featuring silhouettes mid-movement with raised arms, formed from colourful, abstract patterned shapes. In the centre, a fracture in glass set against a pitch-black background. On the right, silhouette of a person standing with legs apart and knees bent inward, leaning forward as they lift their arms straight behind their back in a symmetrical pose, wearing translucent beige fabric that stretches from knees to arms as they extend.

About RESOLUTION 26: Wild Guess, Westpfel Co. and Ming Chin HSIEH

Collage featuring silhouettes mid-movement with raised arms, formed from colourful, abstract patterned shapes.

Attention Economy

An abstract piece of interdisciplinary performance, combining live sound, movement, and original poetry.

Using materials like plant debris and oils, the performers create backgrounds of liquid-light and projection art, reflecting the overlapping textures and landscapes explored within the poetry. These shadow silhouettes feel unreachable, echoing our forced interactions with the toxicity and violence of online media.

Led by somatic movement practices, the piece explores internal and embodied experiences of movement. The poem's themes of hyper-digitalisation, capitalist decay, digital anxiety, and the erosion of the self, contrast with analogue visuals, and a nuanced movement score.

About Wild Guess

Wild Guess is a performance collective based in Scotland, which creates bold, experimental, and politically responsive work. Their new piece is a direct collaboration between theatre-maker and poet Harry Walker, who explores the intersection of labour and collective consciousness, and movement artist Margot Conde Arenas, whose work emphasises visceral physical storytelling.

Fusing text and body, their practices collide to create this interdisciplinary performance. They are joined by sound artist Robbie Hail and performer Molly McGrath. As a loose collective, Wild Guess thrives on this synergy, creating off-the-wall theatre that challenges forms and engages with the urgent questions of our time.

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Cast and creatives

Harry Walker, Margot Conde Arenas, Robbie Hail, Molly McGrath and Lillian Clay (image maker).

A fracture in glass set against a pitch-black background.

Fracture

What's deemed right and wrong has been built and passed down through generations of taught behaviour. To break this chain, we must decipher what we can keep and what we can let go of.

Westpfel Co explore the cycles of death and rebirth as they journey through societal expectations. Fracture delves into the process of embodying who you truly are before the world told you who to be.

Prepare for an experience of loss, love, celebration, strength and resilience in a performance dedicated to us all.

About Westpfel Co.

Megan Westpfel trained at London Contemporary Dance School and Bird College. Her dance career has led her to work continuously in the TV and Film industry.

Performing on shows like MTV EMA’s, Brit Awards, Children in Need, Top of the Pops, and The Graham Norton Show. Dancing for artists such as Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue, Hugh Jackman, Demi Lovato and FKA Twigs.

For the past five years, Megan has been harnessing her creativity to start to emerge as a choreographer and director. Combining the skills she has learned from performing with the many genres she has trained in, her style blends into a concoction that is unique and niche, making Westpfel Co.

Silhouette of a person standing with legs apart and knees bent inward, leaning forward as they lift their arms straight behind their back in a symmetrical pose, wearing translucent beige fabric that stretches from knees to arms as they extend.

Born, Never Asked

A tender exploration of what love requires, seen through the fragile bond between mother and daughter. Rooted in Ming Chin HSIEH’s personal memories, the work contemplates how affection and pain can coexist, and how time and space hold traces of both. It unfolds as a quiet act of remembrance — turning wounds into poetry, and grief into a gentle search for understanding.

About the artist

Ming Chin HSIEH is a dance artist originally from Taipei, Taiwan, currently based in London, United Kingdom. With a background in ballet, contemporary dance and Martial Arts Taichi, Ming Chin trained at National Taiwan University of Arts in Taipei followed by London Contemporary Dance School in London, where she performed with James Cousins Dance Company.

Ming Chin has worked with renowned choreographers such as Sir Wayne McGregor, Sir Richard Alston, Holly Blakey, Jason Mabana and has appeared in projects with Nowness and PAP Magazine and she was invited to La Biennale Venice Danza where she worked with Dorotea Saykaly and Golden Lion Award winner Christina Caprioli in 2024, presenting works across United Kingdom, Italy and Taiwan.

Cast and creatives

Dancer/choreographer: Ming Chin HSIEH