FRI 18 APR / 21h00
TEL - Teatro Experimental de Lagos
Performance / M10 / 60' / 5€
Welcome to the pathetic world of Samir Campaign – nobody’s favourite sad fuck faggot clown. It’s the fin de la soirée, his inauguration into the world of the living.
He rehearses and rehearses and rehearses a never ending rehearsal for a show that will never be. What vortex of sadness will he be sucked into now, and in turn suck you into along with him?
CHAOS BALLAD lurks somewhere between concert, cabaret and nightmare. We bear witness to the attempts of Samir Campaign as he just keeps on keeping on going in a world filled with terror and the terror of boredom and the boredom of terror. It’s an attempt to condense a feeling. It’s an attempt at formalising a feeling. You tell me if you feel anything ey.
Created and performed: Samir Kennedy
Creation support: ICI-CCN Montpellier, Cambridge Junction, Arts Council England, The Old Diorama
Previous Dates: ICI-CCN Montpellier, Cambridge Junction, Battersea Arts Centre, Tough Sell
Samir Kennedy is an independent artist based between London and Marseille working at the intersections between choreography, performance, sound and video.
He discovered performance through a choir concert at primary school, when a voice came out of his mouth that seemingly wasn’t his own. He quickly moved on to musical theatre, eventually finding contemporary dance where he finished his studies at Laban, UK in 2013, eventually graduating from the MA EXERCE programme at the Centre Chorégraphique Nationale de Montpellier in 2023.
He has built a diverse, interdisciplinary practice, working internationally as a performer, choreographer, director, sound designer, and dramaturg in venues ranging from established theatres to experimental spaces, clubs, and galleries. His work critically engages with class, race, queerness, and otherness, centering the body as a site for subverting archetypal figures like the devil, zombie, and clown. Blending sociological markers with speculative narratives, he challenges cultural symbolism and reimagines liminal identities through queer existentialism and alternative realities.
