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‘Mouth Wash and Razor Blades’ (2025)

Choreographer: Casper Dillen
Composer: Gia Dreyer @giadreyer7
Assistant director: Dann Xiao @dann1xiao
Fashion Design: Dodam Gwon @gondodam
Performers: Agelos Kotzias @ajelo___ , Cameron Jarvie @cameron.jarvie , Casper Dillen, Christy Taylor @christyctaylor , Cizzoe Yi Wang @yiiiii_wang , Dann Xiao, Edgar Ocampo Pazmino @edgaropazmino , Haedong Lee @haedonglee , Noah Henry @noahdeblack , Maieuran Sathananthan @bboybarefeet , Romain Nagata @romain_nagata , Jamie Myles @jamie_mys , Tomio Shota @tomioshota , William James (JJ) @wiy00m , Qibai Ting @qibai_700 , Yujie Duan @yujieduann

Photographer: Xinyue Tao @xinyue_txy

#performance #dance

Long Tennis, (2021)
Performed by Casper Dillen and inge Cauwenbergh
Music by Gia Dreyer @giadreyer7

Performed at CPR – Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, New York

Thank you to Center for Performance Research for supporting the work
@cprnyc

#performance #dance #newyork

Orfeo (2022)
Performance at @theplacelondon

Choreographer: Casper Dillen
Composer: Gia Dreyer 
Lighting: Seth Rook Williams
Costume designer: Ziting Gao
Costume assistant: Qing Zhu
Dancers: Heejin Ban, Meixuan Cheng, Dang ‘Lee Vu’ Dao, Casper Dillen, Lewis Oliver Douglas, Harman Liu Hongdao, Romain Nagata, Tong Yin
Sound editing final track: Yilong Liu
Philosophical support: Siegfried Beyers
Poster Design: @charliefffyy @mauriceeetan

Photographer:Justin Atkins @justin.atkins

@heeejinnban @romain_nagata @meithegiantrose @harman_liu @lewisoliverdouglas @dang.h.dao @yt_yintong @siegfried_beyers @giadreyer7 @_mmziting

17th May 2026
2 pm doors open
3 pm performance

The Chapel
Brompton Cemetery
London SW10 9UG

When It Rained for a Million Years (2026) is a new performance work by Casper Dillen and Small Sample Size Theatre, with stage design of kinetic sculptural works by Jude Cui.

Created specifically for the Brompton Cemetery Chapel, the performance takes the form of a medley, bringing together fragments of previous works alongside newly created choreographic material. Rather than following a single narrative, the piece works through accumulation and overlap. Movements, images, and actions return in altered contexts, creating a shifting landscape of echoes, interruptions, and reconfigurations.

The choreography moves between archived and new material, between the live and the repertoire, between repetition and transformation. The work continues our ongoing interest in performance as a visual medium, where scenography, movement, and composition are brought together. In When It Rained for a Million Years, the stage becomes a site of reassembly: a place where earlier gestures are revisited, displaced, and recontextualised. The result is a performance that resists linear progression, inviting audiences into an experience shaped by recurrence, juxtaposition, symbolism, and repetition.

Following the performance, there will be an artist talk and Q&A moderated by Catherine Li.

Poster image photographed by Xinyue Tao
of Mouth Wash and Razor Blades (2025).

Cast:
Casper Dillen
Christy Taylor 
Ksenia Ilina 
Maieuran Sathananthan
Mooting Chang 
Neo Gao 
Satur Chong
Shannen McCormack
Shujing Huang
Tali Nishihara Jones
Xinyue Tao

Curated and organised by:
Catherine Li

@fobcofficial
@cath_erine_li @judecui68
@christyctaylor @ksenia.ili @neodasein @satur.chong @shannen_mccormack @hshu11___ @mooting_roam199 @talinishiharajones @xinyue_txy

Picture of me at @redbullbcone UK top 24
📸 taken by @senselensphotography

A selection of reviews to our work in 2025 ----------------------------------------- Mouth Wash and Razor Blades
Photographs by Xinyue Tao @xinyue_txy

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren
Photograph by Lila Rui Lan @ruilan_lilaa

1 - Written by Bruce Marriott published at @theplacelondon
2 - Written by Linda Rocco (@lindaonmars) published at @fakewhalestudio
3 and 4 - Written by Isabelle Enquist (@isabelle_enquist) published at @danceartjournal
5, 6 and 7 by Bruce Marriott posted published at @liftedlegdance ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------
‘Mouth Wash and Razor Blades’ (2025)
Choreographer: Casper Dillen
Composer: Gia Dreyer @giadreyer7
Assistant director: Dann Xiao @dann1xiao
Fashion Design: Dodam Gwon @gondodam
Performers: Agelos Kotzias @ajelo___ , Cameron Jarvie @cameron.jarvie , Casper Dillen, Christy Taylor @christyctaylor , Cizzoe Yi Wang @yiiiii_wang , Dann Xiao, Edgar Ocampo Pazmino @edgaropazmino , Haedong Lee @haedonglee , Noah Henry @noahdeblack , Maieuran Sathananthan @bboybarefeet , Romain Nagata @romain_nagata , Jamie Myles @jamie_mys , Tomio Shota @tomioshota , William James (JJ) @wiy00m , Qibai Ting @qibai_700 , Yujie Duan @yujieduann

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (2025)
Choreography: Casper Dillen
Music: Christy Taylor
Performers: Casper Dillen, Charles Hua, Christy Taylor, Dann Xiao, Inge Cauwenbergh, Mahxium Ogyen Chung, Xinyue Tao, Yujie Duan
Organ: Joe Waymouth
Bell ringers: Kate Hunt, Remo Ruocco, Fabienne Wattam, Bianca Nicoleta, Denise Welch Charlotte Kirwan, Nick Bendelow, Michael Uphill
Technical support:
Nick Bendelow

With Special thanks to Revd. Joshua Rey

Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren has been made possible with kind support from the London Borough of Wandsworth through the Wandsworth Arts Fringe Grant and Welcome to Wandsworth.

A selection of reviews to our work in 2025 ----------------------------------------- Mouth Wash and Razor Blades
Photographs by Xinyue Tao @xinyue_txy

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren
Photograph by Lila Rui Lan @ruilan_lilaa

1 - Written by Bruce Marriott published at @theplacelondon
2 - Written by Linda Rocco (@lindaonmars) published at @fakewhalestudio
3 and 4 - Written by Isabelle Enquist (@isabelle_enquist) published at @danceartjournal
5, 6 and 7 by Bruce Marriott posted published at @liftedlegdance ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------
‘Mouth Wash and Razor Blades’ (2025)
Choreographer: Casper Dillen
Composer: Gia Dreyer @giadreyer7
Assistant director: Dann Xiao @dann1xiao
Fashion Design: Dodam Gwon @gondodam
Performers: Agelos Kotzias @ajelo___ , Cameron Jarvie @cameron.jarvie , Casper Dillen, Christy Taylor @christyctaylor , Cizzoe Yi Wang @yiiiii_wang , Dann Xiao, Edgar Ocampo Pazmino @edgaropazmino , Haedong Lee @haedonglee , Noah Henry @noahdeblack , Maieuran Sathananthan @bboybarefeet , Romain Nagata @romain_nagata , Jamie Myles @jamie_mys , Tomio Shota @tomioshota , William James (JJ) @wiy00m , Qibai Ting @qibai_700 , Yujie Duan @yujieduann

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (2025)
Choreography: Casper Dillen
Music: Christy Taylor
Performers: Casper Dillen, Charles Hua, Christy Taylor, Dann Xiao, Inge Cauwenbergh, Mahxium Ogyen Chung, Xinyue Tao, Yujie Duan
Organ: Joe Waymouth
Bell ringers: Kate Hunt, Remo Ruocco, Fabienne Wattam, Bianca Nicoleta, Denise Welch Charlotte Kirwan, Nick Bendelow, Michael Uphill
Technical support:
Nick Bendelow

With Special thanks to Revd. Joshua Rey

Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren has been made possible with kind support from the London Borough of Wandsworth through the Wandsworth Arts Fringe Grant and Welcome to Wandsworth.

A selection of reviews to our work in 2025 ----------------------------------------- Mouth Wash and Razor Blades
Photographs by Xinyue Tao @xinyue_txy

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren
Photograph by Lila Rui Lan @ruilan_lilaa

1 - Written by Bruce Marriott published at @theplacelondon
2 - Written by Linda Rocco (@lindaonmars) published at @fakewhalestudio
3 and 4 - Written by Isabelle Enquist (@isabelle_enquist) published at @danceartjournal
5, 6 and 7 by Bruce Marriott posted published at @liftedlegdance ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------
‘Mouth Wash and Razor Blades’ (2025)
Choreographer: Casper Dillen
Composer: Gia Dreyer @giadreyer7
Assistant director: Dann Xiao @dann1xiao
Fashion Design: Dodam Gwon @gondodam
Performers: Agelos Kotzias @ajelo___ , Cameron Jarvie @cameron.jarvie , Casper Dillen, Christy Taylor @christyctaylor , Cizzoe Yi Wang @yiiiii_wang , Dann Xiao, Edgar Ocampo Pazmino @edgaropazmino , Haedong Lee @haedonglee , Noah Henry @noahdeblack , Maieuran Sathananthan @bboybarefeet , Romain Nagata @romain_nagata , Jamie Myles @jamie_mys , Tomio Shota @tomioshota , William James (JJ) @wiy00m , Qibai Ting @qibai_700 , Yujie Duan @yujieduann

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (2025)
Choreography: Casper Dillen
Music: Christy Taylor
Performers: Casper Dillen, Charles Hua, Christy Taylor, Dann Xiao, Inge Cauwenbergh, Mahxium Ogyen Chung, Xinyue Tao, Yujie Duan
Organ: Joe Waymouth
Bell ringers: Kate Hunt, Remo Ruocco, Fabienne Wattam, Bianca Nicoleta, Denise Welch Charlotte Kirwan, Nick Bendelow, Michael Uphill
Technical support:
Nick Bendelow

With Special thanks to Revd. Joshua Rey

Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren has been made possible with kind support from the London Borough of Wandsworth through the Wandsworth Arts Fringe Grant and Welcome to Wandsworth.

A selection of reviews to our work in 2025 ----------------------------------------- Mouth Wash and Razor Blades
Photographs by Xinyue Tao @xinyue_txy

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren
Photograph by Lila Rui Lan @ruilan_lilaa

1 - Written by Bruce Marriott published at @theplacelondon
2 - Written by Linda Rocco (@lindaonmars) published at @fakewhalestudio
3 and 4 - Written by Isabelle Enquist (@isabelle_enquist) published at @danceartjournal
5, 6 and 7 by Bruce Marriott posted published at @liftedlegdance ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------
‘Mouth Wash and Razor Blades’ (2025)
Choreographer: Casper Dillen
Composer: Gia Dreyer @giadreyer7
Assistant director: Dann Xiao @dann1xiao
Fashion Design: Dodam Gwon @gondodam
Performers: Agelos Kotzias @ajelo___ , Cameron Jarvie @cameron.jarvie , Casper Dillen, Christy Taylor @christyctaylor , Cizzoe Yi Wang @yiiiii_wang , Dann Xiao, Edgar Ocampo Pazmino @edgaropazmino , Haedong Lee @haedonglee , Noah Henry @noahdeblack , Maieuran Sathananthan @bboybarefeet , Romain Nagata @romain_nagata , Jamie Myles @jamie_mys , Tomio Shota @tomioshota , William James (JJ) @wiy00m , Qibai Ting @qibai_700 , Yujie Duan @yujieduann

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (2025)
Choreography: Casper Dillen
Music: Christy Taylor
Performers: Casper Dillen, Charles Hua, Christy Taylor, Dann Xiao, Inge Cauwenbergh, Mahxium Ogyen Chung, Xinyue Tao, Yujie Duan
Organ: Joe Waymouth
Bell ringers: Kate Hunt, Remo Ruocco, Fabienne Wattam, Bianca Nicoleta, Denise Welch Charlotte Kirwan, Nick Bendelow, Michael Uphill
Technical support:
Nick Bendelow

With Special thanks to Revd. Joshua Rey

Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren has been made possible with kind support from the London Borough of Wandsworth through the Wandsworth Arts Fringe Grant and Welcome to Wandsworth.

A selection of reviews to our work in 2025 ----------------------------------------- Mouth Wash and Razor Blades
Photographs by Xinyue Tao @xinyue_txy

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren
Photograph by Lila Rui Lan @ruilan_lilaa

1 - Written by Bruce Marriott published at @theplacelondon
2 - Written by Linda Rocco (@lindaonmars) published at @fakewhalestudio
3 and 4 - Written by Isabelle Enquist (@isabelle_enquist) published at @danceartjournal
5, 6 and 7 by Bruce Marriott posted published at @liftedlegdance ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------
‘Mouth Wash and Razor Blades’ (2025)
Choreographer: Casper Dillen
Composer: Gia Dreyer @giadreyer7
Assistant director: Dann Xiao @dann1xiao
Fashion Design: Dodam Gwon @gondodam
Performers: Agelos Kotzias @ajelo___ , Cameron Jarvie @cameron.jarvie , Casper Dillen, Christy Taylor @christyctaylor , Cizzoe Yi Wang @yiiiii_wang , Dann Xiao, Edgar Ocampo Pazmino @edgaropazmino , Haedong Lee @haedonglee , Noah Henry @noahdeblack , Maieuran Sathananthan @bboybarefeet , Romain Nagata @romain_nagata , Jamie Myles @jamie_mys , Tomio Shota @tomioshota , William James (JJ) @wiy00m , Qibai Ting @qibai_700 , Yujie Duan @yujieduann

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (2025)
Choreography: Casper Dillen
Music: Christy Taylor
Performers: Casper Dillen, Charles Hua, Christy Taylor, Dann Xiao, Inge Cauwenbergh, Mahxium Ogyen Chung, Xinyue Tao, Yujie Duan
Organ: Joe Waymouth
Bell ringers: Kate Hunt, Remo Ruocco, Fabienne Wattam, Bianca Nicoleta, Denise Welch Charlotte Kirwan, Nick Bendelow, Michael Uphill
Technical support:
Nick Bendelow

With Special thanks to Revd. Joshua Rey

Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren has been made possible with kind support from the London Borough of Wandsworth through the Wandsworth Arts Fringe Grant and Welcome to Wandsworth.

A selection of reviews to our work in 2025 ----------------------------------------- Mouth Wash and Razor Blades
Photographs by Xinyue Tao @xinyue_txy

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren
Photograph by Lila Rui Lan @ruilan_lilaa

1 - Written by Bruce Marriott published at @theplacelondon
2 - Written by Linda Rocco (@lindaonmars) published at @fakewhalestudio
3 and 4 - Written by Isabelle Enquist (@isabelle_enquist) published at @danceartjournal
5, 6 and 7 by Bruce Marriott posted published at @liftedlegdance ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------
‘Mouth Wash and Razor Blades’ (2025)
Choreographer: Casper Dillen
Composer: Gia Dreyer @giadreyer7
Assistant director: Dann Xiao @dann1xiao
Fashion Design: Dodam Gwon @gondodam
Performers: Agelos Kotzias @ajelo___ , Cameron Jarvie @cameron.jarvie , Casper Dillen, Christy Taylor @christyctaylor , Cizzoe Yi Wang @yiiiii_wang , Dann Xiao, Edgar Ocampo Pazmino @edgaropazmino , Haedong Lee @haedonglee , Noah Henry @noahdeblack , Maieuran Sathananthan @bboybarefeet , Romain Nagata @romain_nagata , Jamie Myles @jamie_mys , Tomio Shota @tomioshota , William James (JJ) @wiy00m , Qibai Ting @qibai_700 , Yujie Duan @yujieduann

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (2025)
Choreography: Casper Dillen
Music: Christy Taylor
Performers: Casper Dillen, Charles Hua, Christy Taylor, Dann Xiao, Inge Cauwenbergh, Mahxium Ogyen Chung, Xinyue Tao, Yujie Duan
Organ: Joe Waymouth
Bell ringers: Kate Hunt, Remo Ruocco, Fabienne Wattam, Bianca Nicoleta, Denise Welch Charlotte Kirwan, Nick Bendelow, Michael Uphill
Technical support:
Nick Bendelow

With Special thanks to Revd. Joshua Rey

Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren has been made possible with kind support from the London Borough of Wandsworth through the Wandsworth Arts Fringe Grant and Welcome to Wandsworth.

A selection of reviews to our work in 2025 ----------------------------------------- Mouth Wash and Razor Blades
Photographs by Xinyue Tao @xinyue_txy

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren
Photograph by Lila Rui Lan @ruilan_lilaa

1 - Written by Bruce Marriott published at @theplacelondon
2 - Written by Linda Rocco (@lindaonmars) published at @fakewhalestudio
3 and 4 - Written by Isabelle Enquist (@isabelle_enquist) published at @danceartjournal
5, 6 and 7 by Bruce Marriott posted published at @liftedlegdance ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------
‘Mouth Wash and Razor Blades’ (2025)
Choreographer: Casper Dillen
Composer: Gia Dreyer @giadreyer7
Assistant director: Dann Xiao @dann1xiao
Fashion Design: Dodam Gwon @gondodam
Performers: Agelos Kotzias @ajelo___ , Cameron Jarvie @cameron.jarvie , Casper Dillen, Christy Taylor @christyctaylor , Cizzoe Yi Wang @yiiiii_wang , Dann Xiao, Edgar Ocampo Pazmino @edgaropazmino , Haedong Lee @haedonglee , Noah Henry @noahdeblack , Maieuran Sathananthan @bboybarefeet , Romain Nagata @romain_nagata , Jamie Myles @jamie_mys , Tomio Shota @tomioshota , William James (JJ) @wiy00m , Qibai Ting @qibai_700 , Yujie Duan @yujieduann

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (2025)
Choreography: Casper Dillen
Music: Christy Taylor
Performers: Casper Dillen, Charles Hua, Christy Taylor, Dann Xiao, Inge Cauwenbergh, Mahxium Ogyen Chung, Xinyue Tao, Yujie Duan
Organ: Joe Waymouth
Bell ringers: Kate Hunt, Remo Ruocco, Fabienne Wattam, Bianca Nicoleta, Denise Welch Charlotte Kirwan, Nick Bendelow, Michael Uphill
Technical support:
Nick Bendelow

With Special thanks to Revd. Joshua Rey

Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren has been made possible with kind support from the London Borough of Wandsworth through the Wandsworth Arts Fringe Grant and Welcome to Wandsworth.

Traveling memories (2024) Performance, 0 min 15 sec.
Performed by Casper Dillen and Minghao Sun @minghao_.sun Featuring Neo Gao @neodasein
Photograph: Ziying Wang @ziyingwang_ph
An intervention lasting no longer than the average glance at a painting. A snapshot of intimacy: one man trapped with his head inside the underwear of another who is rushing through the gallery, forming a fleeting, hybrid body.

Archive
06/06/2025
A conversation about our piece ‘Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren’ which premiered 2025 June. With music composed by Christy Taylor and performed by Casper Dillen, Charles Hua, Christy Taylor, Dann Xiao, Inge Cauwenbergh, Mahxium Ogyen Chung, Xinyue Tao, Yujie Duan and Joe Waymouth. Lovely speaking to Jason Rosam on Riverside radio

DO BABIES CRY IN THE WOMB?
Public performance in Aoyama Park, Gaienmae, Tokyo

Free, no booking required

13 October 2025
9pm

19-8, Minamiaoyama 2-Chōme
Minato, Tokyo
Japan 107-0062

30min outdoor performance

Direction: Casper Dillen
Music: Masatake Abe @masatake_abe
Performers: Casper Dillen, KN, Octo
@kn2198_hhfs @octo_______
Supported by: Elsewhere Culture

Weather report: let’s hope it doesn’t rain

Location report: text @caspucci if you can’t find the place

#post-dance #music #performance

PLAY GROUND is happening again

Performances start at 8 pm

17 and 18 October 2025

Free, no booking required

Outdoors

Pedlar’s Park
Vauxhall Walk
London
SE11 5JT

Friday 17 October
Muhammad Muhammad
Fan Bangyu
Nefeli Kentoni
Pil and Galia Kollectiv

Saturday 18 October
Yujie Duan
Christy Taylor
Annie Finn
Dann Xiao
Poppy Waxman
Nan Zhu
Xiao Wan
Casper Dillen

‘Babies, they are our future right?’ (2024)
Metal, steel cycle rack, weather resistant readymade assemblage, car seat infant carrier
203cm x 156cm

Exhibited part of the group show Future Archaeologies at @camdenartcentre

Car manufacturing, the production of children and abstraction are suggested to be in a destructive conflict. engaged in a lethal game of rock, paper, scissors. the car crushes the baby, the vehicle's aesthetic reality is undermined by it's own shadow silhouette and the abstraction lacks knowledge of the possibility of a fetus. Nature, society and a womb from the future.

#sculpture #groupexhibition

‘Babies, they are our future right?’ (2024)
Metal, steel cycle rack, weather resistant readymade assemblage, car seat infant carrier
203cm x 156cm

Exhibited part of the group show Future Archaeologies at @camdenartcentre

Car manufacturing, the production of children and abstraction are suggested to be in a destructive conflict. engaged in a lethal game of rock, paper, scissors. the car crushes the baby, the vehicle's aesthetic reality is undermined by it's own shadow silhouette and the abstraction lacks knowledge of the possibility of a fetus. Nature, society and a womb from the future.

#sculpture #groupexhibition

‘Babies, they are our future right?’ (2024)
Metal, steel cycle rack, weather resistant readymade assemblage, car seat infant carrier
203cm x 156cm

Exhibited part of the group show Future Archaeologies at @camdenartcentre

Car manufacturing, the production of children and abstraction are suggested to be in a destructive conflict. engaged in a lethal game of rock, paper, scissors. the car crushes the baby, the vehicle's aesthetic reality is undermined by it's own shadow silhouette and the abstraction lacks knowledge of the possibility of a fetus. Nature, society and a womb from the future.

#sculpture #groupexhibition

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, performance, 41 minutes, 2025

Excerpt

Choreography: Casper Dillen

Music: Christy Taylor

Performers: Casper Dillen, Charles Hua, Christy Taylor, Dann Xiao, Inge Cauwenbergh, Mahxium Ogyen Chung, Xinyue Tao, Yujie Duan

Organ: Joe Waymouth

Bell ringers:
Kate Hunt
Remo Ruocco Fabienne Wattam Bianca Nicoleta, Denise Welch Charlotte Kirwan Nick Bendelow Michael Uphill

Technical support:
Nick Bendelow

With Special thanks to Revd. Joshua Rey

Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren has been made possible with kind support from the London Borough of Wandsworth through the Wandsworth Arts Fringe Grant and Welcome to Wandsworth.