Raquel Meseguer Zafe and Linzy Na Nakorn
Residency: Lunchbox
Raquel Meseguer Zafe and Linzy Na Nakorn will be exploring a new collaboration which will develop their understanding of how dual heritage and racialised experience feeds into their individual creative practice. They hope to consider ways to decolonise their individual dance practice and potentially develop a framework for shared accessible, restful, bold and provoking creative dance practice.
The residency will have two autobiographical starting points: a family album documenting the life of Linzy’s Thai grandmother and Raquel’s writing ‘Tracing a path home’ which documents her visits to the Philippines in snapshots. They will dive into their questions physically and through discussion, creative writing, restaging of memories and the conscious constructing and deconstructing of identity. Having both worked with creative audio description, they are curious about how to play with, and challenge the way they might be described by others through Audio Description.
More About Raquel Meseguer Zafe and Linzy Na Nakorn
Raquel’s work straddles theatre, dance, installation, performative conversations and photo-documentary. She identifies as disabled, and works with rest and horizontality as creative impulses. Raquel advocates for Resting Spaces, Restful Cities and founded creative online spaces for the chronically ill community.
Raquel founded Unchartered Collective in 2016 to create theatrical encounters that explore the lived experience of an invisible disability like chronic pain and to create her own context for creating work on her body. Her work for Unchartered Collective includes Someone Should Start Laughing (2017) and A Crash Course in Cloudspotting (2019/2021). Raquel also co-founded Lost Dog dance, co-directed all shows up the 2011 Place Prize winner ‘It Needs Horses’. She was Associate Artist on Lost Dog’s Paradise Lost (2015) and Juliet + Romeo (2018) and was movement director on Rachael Bagshaw’s The Shape of the Pain (2018) and Mother Courage and Her Children, Royal Exchange / Headlong (2019).
Linzy is a dance/theatre maker, facilitator and community organiser. Working collaboratively across mediums, Linzy’s work focuses on exploring new ways of being, expanding conversations on housing, disability, outdoor engagement and collectivity. Living with a chronic health condition, her work extends into advocacy for integrated accessibility. She has been developing a creative audio description practice for visually impaired and blind audiences, designing and creating CAD for live work and film since 2021 as initiated by GatherUp.
Since 2020, she has been a practitioner for Frantic Assembly delivering residencies nationally and internationally. She has had a long standing relationship with multi-sensory immersive performance company Bittersuite (London/NY) and is a member of artist collective INTERVAL in Bristol, where she is based.
Linzy and Raquel were supported by Independent Dance’s (ID) 2022 FLOURISH programme; a space for reciprocal mentorship from which their collaboration has sprung, along with an emboldened shared practice of creative advocacy for a more restful world.
Right image: Linzy Na Nakorn Headshot, photo credit Benjamin Pryor
Left Image: Raquel Meseguer Photo Credit Paul Blakemore
