Careful - Collective Disorder

Join us for the latest fully improvised performance by Collective Disorder (previously Chronology Arts Collective). With Carolyn Eccles, Gideon Payten-Griffiths, Mitch Riley, Nikki Heywood, and Stephen Adams. 

Careful.

Valuing intimacy, sensitivity… aware of our own and others’ fragility… vulnerability…

Tuning in… attending to small sounds… tiny textural details… of self__other__environment...

Tuning out the bombast… the sense of threat…

Balanced on the edge…. the possibility of a misstep…

Risking something gentler…though still it might break… careful as an unfurling of fingers from fist to outstretched palm

We invite you to witness Live Composition at play with elements of sound, movement and space. An evening of raw, embodied exploration that honours the unseen work of becoming.

Collective Disorder is a bold project of interdisciplinary collaboration between movement and sound artists of diverse backgrounds, experiences and disciplines. A collective of independent artists who adopt roles of creators, performers, improvisers, score/script writers, makers.

We create live, fully improvised performances that fuse movement, sound, and space. Our work is grounded in rigorous training, deep listening, and playful experimentation—an ongoing conversation between artists, environments, and audiences. Every show is fragile, emergent, and alive: anything can happen, and that’s the point. We invite you to witness the unexpected, feel the thrill of risk, and share in the ephemeral magic of the present moment.

We all have lifelong commitments to research of generative and collective processes within an ethos of attentive listening and engagement with all aspects of our environments.

We develop our practice through regular skills exchange workshops, performances and technical training that draws on improvised and compositional approaches to sound and movement disciplines, including concert-music, theatre, dance and sound art.

In 2025, the collective (under previous name Chronology Arts Collective convened by Andrew Batt-Rawden) delivered 10 unique improvised performances, each facilitated and guided by a different member of the Collective. In 2026, with the support of The Living Room Theatre, we aim to dig deeper and stretch further as we play, practice and explore the possibilities of the wonderful new venue at 21 Shepherd, and look fr fresh ways to connect with like-minded artists and audiences.