Dissidences*. Sound, voice, word.
Poetesses and/or poets, singers, performers, gather in a semi circle around a music improviser. Reading, reciting, singing or babbling. Spontaneity and dissidence are the rules. Spontaneity and dissidence will be the basis for the creation of a collective piece.
Dissidents 6:
Carla Cías with sound
Ivy Tsui with dance & voice
Montse Gallego & Charlie Folorunsho with voice & words.
Born in Málaga in 1985, Carla Cías is a self taught artist who developed special interest in music from a very young age. Among her favorite genres, she highlights classical music, experimental, ethnic and electronic music. She amplified her knowledge by studying music theory for several years which led her to improve and master her skills. Carla began producing her own music and DJing at the age of 19, performing in cities like Barcelona and Ibiza. She claims not having a specific style. Instead, she likes to experiment and get carried away by feelings. To this day, she keeps growing as an artist and teaching herself as music plays a crucial role in her life. It is not merely an occupation, it is her way of expressing herself and showing the world who she really is.
Ivy Tsui (she/her) is a Hong Kong–born, London-based dance artist, performer and choreographer. Her practice centres on improvisation, embodied listening, and the relationship between movement, sound, memory, language, and identity. She works across live performance, moving image, and writing, often creating site-responsive and interdisciplinary performance experiences.
Improvisation is central to her performing and collaborative practice. She has worked with musicians including percussionist Marika Tsuchiya and pipa player Eveline Wong, exploring how sound and movement can respond to and transform one another in real time. Her ongoing project The Pipa Walkers combines dance, pipa, improvisational scores, card-reading, and Chinese characters.
Her performance and video works, My Life as a Dancer?, have been presented internationally, including at Jumping Frames, Multiplé Dance Festival, and Light Moves Festival. She also curated and led improvisation projects for CoLab Festival 2025 and 2026.
www.ivytsui.com
@danceivydance
Charlie Folorunsho is relatively new on the London Impro scene but has been playing at the venues like Boat Ting, Hundred Years Gallery, Improvox, Spanners, The Tin Tabernacle, Lewisham Art House, Cafe Atelier, Zen Jerk, Fisherman’s Chapel, The Golden Goose & Jazz Rumours. He has worked with Immersive Performance companies such as Secret Cinema.
Montse Gallego is a multidisciplinary artist and founder of the Hundred Years Gallery. She began writing short stories in the early eighties and her poetry has been developed in her notebooks since the nineties, both as silent but permanent supporters of her foremost painting practice. In 2012 she started an experimental project based on automatic poems which was later recorded and edited by herself as a voice-sound-collage series titled Las Naves de Antofagasta. Volume I. Her first ever selection of poems in the form of a bilingual book, Al Final del Tiempo, was finished in Paris in January 2020, and printed and hand bound by herself during the first months of the Covid19 plague. The release of Las Naves de Antofagasta. Volume II was last April, a recording accompanied of a bilingual book also printed and hand bound it by her in a limited edition the profits of which are entirely donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians (M.A.P.).
Las Naves de Antofagasta. Vol.II
Las Naves de Antofagasta. Vol.I
Al Final del Tiempo
