CHAIR!
CHAIR! is an outside site-specific participatory performance created by the Geraldine Pilgrim Performance Company. The CHAIR! performance infrastructure is reimagined specifically for each commission/venue/festival site. The piece unfolds in a public space, driven by an evocative soundscape and performed by locally recruited volunteer participants, alongside the Company’s professional performers.
CHAIR!
A performance that celebrates the act of sitting down. When did our public seating disappear and what would happen if we brought it back? Set in a dreamlike world, CHAIR! imagines how we can once again have public spaces that care. Where people can sit uninterrupted ready to relax, work, remember and have time and place to dream. This performance with chairs plus every day and surreal objects and actions reiterates the fact that everyone has the right to sit down.
CHAIR! is supported by Without Walls and commissioned by Brighton Festival and Activate/Inside Out Dorset. The creation period was supported by The Old Diorama Arts Centre. The initial R&D for CHAIR! was supported by FESTIVAL.ORG (Greenwich+ Docklands International Festival).
CHAIR! has toured so far to Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Brighton Festival (May 2026), and will be arriving at Greenwich + Docklands International Festival (Sep 3 & 4 2026), and Inside Out Dorset in 2027.
The CHAIR! Company
Artistic Director: Geraldine Pilgrim
Assistant Director: Kelsey Yuhara
Performer/Movement Director: Sara April Lamb
Performer: Nelson Holtz
Performer: Amir Shafiei
CHAIR! Compton Close Version Participant Performers (as seen in the video above):
Ciaran Barker, Debora Bellintani, Julie Isherwood, Dee Kushlick-Willams, Mike Park, Mollie-Mae Rochester, Nuin Stephens and Will To.
CHAIR!
A performance that celebrates the act of sitting down. When did our public seating disappear and what would happen if we brought it back? Set in a dreamlike world, CHAIR! imagines how we can once again have public spaces that care. Where people can sit uninterrupted ready to relax, work, remember and have time and place to dream. This performance with chairs plus every day and surreal objects and actions reiterates the fact that everyone has the right to sit down.
CHAIR! is supported by Without Walls and commissioned by Brighton Festival and Activate/Inside Out Dorset. The creation period was supported by The Old Diorama Arts Centre. The initial R&D for CHAIR! was supported by FESTIVAL.ORG (Greenwich+ Docklands International Festival).
CHAIR! has toured so far to Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Brighton Festival (May 2026), and will be arriving at Greenwich + Docklands International Festival (Sep 3 & 4 2026), and Inside Out Dorset in 2027.
The CHAIR! Company
Artistic Director: Geraldine Pilgrim
Assistant Director: Kelsey Yuhara
Performer/Movement Director: Sara April Lamb
Performer: Nelson Holtz
Performer: Amir Shafiei
CHAIR! Compton Close Version Participant Performers (as seen in the video above):
Ciaran Barker, Debora Bellintani, Julie Isherwood, Dee Kushlick-Willams, Mike Park, Mollie-Mae Rochester, Nuin Stephens and Will To.
