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“The music was fab, had a really queer sensibility to it, and I enjoyed the chopping and changing aural and visual languages.”
“The fan popping really reminded me of Kabuki, while your chair balances had a beautiful Trisha Brown-esque simplicity. Lovely to see you looking strong and full of life.” MOCA London is pleased to present Kunstkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities, a live performance by choreographer Dora Frankel and composer Peter Coyte. Kunstkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities, is a collaboration between Dora Frankel and Peter Coyte that fuses dance, spontaneous composition, and with aural and movement improvisation, creating intimate, immersive, site-responsive performances. This performance is enriched and extended by an experimental film, created using spontaneous editing by video artist Mark Watson, aka Dizqo. Both artists use improvisation and internal and external stimuli to create, and either can start the process. The Kunstkammer “curiosities”, or sections, may or may not relate, but consistent themes include the environment, the loss of habitat, the body in space and time, vulnerability, and strength. These radical and accessible performances are dependent on audience feedback to continue to develop. Frankel’s choreography, accompanied by Coyte’s composition, unfolds across both the interior of the gallery and the space outside MOCA London, extending the work beyond the conventional boundaries of the exhibition space. Through this movement between inside and outside, Kunstkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities invites audiences to experience the gallery not simply as a place of display, but as an active environment for performance, encounter and discovery. This marks the second dance work by Dora Frankel to be presented at MOCA London, following her dance film Tread Lightly on the Planet, presented as part of the inaugural MOCA Movements programme in February 2026. Biographies Dora Frankel Born in London Dora Frankel is a performer, choreographer, Benesh Dance Notator (choreologist), teacher, movement director and Artistic Director of Dora Frankel Ensemble. Awarded an MA Choreography from Middlesex University in 2003, she moved to Newcastle upon Tyne and founded the UK’s only professional dance company dedicated to the professional development of emerging dance artists from the North East, Fertile Ground, now led by Renaud Wiser. Trained at Rambert School of Ballet and Benesh International, with further qualifications from Sweden and the US (Utah University, Salt Lake City), Dora has worked nationally and internationally in large and small-scale companies and with solo projects, including Rambert, American Ballet Theatre, Royal Swedish Ballet, Malmo Ballet (now Skane Dans Teater) and Wasa Theatre, Osterbottens Regional Theatre, Finland. Her richly, eclectic career spans everything from formal performance, contemporary dance, semi-improvised work, theatre movement and indoor & outdoor shows and production, alongside filmmaking. Her teaching and engagement with, particularly emerging professional dancers, is deeply embedded in her practice as is her commitment to visibility for all genders. www.dorafrankeldanceartist.com Instagram: @frankeldora Peter Coyte Peter is an innovative composer, musician and sound artist, with a rich and diverse career spanning several decades and creative fields. After earning his Fine Art degree in the 1990s, he worked with Guerilla Records, collaborating with artists such as Coldcut, Seal, David McAlmont and Heartless Crew, establishing himself in electronic and experimental music. His many performances include Supernormal Festival, Fort Process, Cafe Oto, Whitstable Biennale, Parasol Unit London, Alter Schmeide, Austria, Sibelius Centre, Helsinki, The Union Chapel, The Swiss Church, London. Collaborations include filmmakers Francois Verster and Joanna Callaghan, theatre directors John Nicholson (Peepolykus) and Gemma Bodinetz at Liverpool Everyman, choreographer Dora Frankel, writer and poet Salena Godden, and drag academic John-Paul Zaccarini. He co-founded Coastal Electronauts, a collective of sound artists living in the estuary area of East Kent, who host monthly sessions, where experimental electronic artists are invited to perform alongside visuals, created by regular collaborator diz_qo. Peter released Journal to great acclaim in early 2026 and continues to explore and push the boundaries of experimental music, while sharing his passion for sound with a broader audience. www.petercoyte.com Instagram: @petercoyte Mark Watson Mark Watson aka diz_qo is an experimental multi-visual Designer for projects and events, creating projection, video, lighting and kinetic art in both analogue and digital. https://www.dizqo.net/ www.moca.london Instagram: @moca_london Press Release and Performance order |
Images:
1: Dora Frankel at Pelican Theatre Dance City. Photo Credit: Luke Waddington 2. Dora Frankel at Pelican Theatre Dance City. Photo Credit: Luke Waddington 3. Dora Frankel, Hand - Kunstkammer at Umbrella Arts Centre Whitstable. Photo Credit: @imagedrum-2b 4. Dora Frankel and Peter Coyte at Umbrella Arts Centre Whitstable. Photo Credit: Andrew Hastings @imagedrum-2 |
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