Chloé Déchery is performer, writer and theatre-maker working between London and Paris.
Since 2007, Chloé has been creating a range of performance works for theatres and public spaces, using a combination of storytelling and fragmented narratives, anthropological & philosophical observations, task-based choreography, video footage and found objects. About Epic, The Guardian said: “A boisterous, intelligent energy knits everything together and poses hefty questions in a playful way”. About Useful Knowledge to Know, What’s on Stage stated: “Her movement is elegant and her body’s message is poignant.” With her work, Chloé likes to blur the frontiers between fact and fiction, the everyday and the autobiographical while playfully deconstructing the mechanics of theatrical representation; interrogating what we see and what remains hidden from us. Her research interests include everyday corporality; ethics of failure; the politics of co-authorship; language and cultural identity; the mundane and the sublime; how we present ourselves to the world and how we interact with our environment. More recently, Chloé has been developing a series of interdisciplinary collaborations with artists coming from other fields such as dramaturgy, sound composition, choreography and practice-as-research; exploring thinking through practice and ways through which artistic experiment and critical discourse can interplay with one another. Chloé is engaged in the dynamics of collaboration, across fields and internationally. She is interested in negotiation and working out dissensus through dialogue. She often works with theatre director Lucy Foster, documentary film-maker Chris Eley, performance artist Simone Kenyon, theatre-maker Deborah Pearson and dramaturge Michael Pinchbeck.