Charlie Lee



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    I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin nation as the Traditional Owners of the land on which I live, work, and create. I pay respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging. Always was, Always will be Aboriginal Land. 
    Camopansies → Oct 2025

    Dancehouse Fringe, October 2025
    Program notes accessible here        — There is no inside or outside anymore



    Camopansies is a choreographic fantasy for a ghillie suit, rubbish, and series of holes. Environmental toxicities and trans-corporeality; the distinction between inside/outside, self/world, human/nature begins to collapse. The edges of a body start to wriggle and slip, pores and plastics are indistinguishable.

    Recognising that waste is a permanent reality in an ecological crisis, Camopansies looks to queer theory to imagine how we might find pleasure alongside our unruly toxic progeny. Both expansive and intimate, the boundaries of the stage collapse in a limning interplay between reality and the imagined.

    Eva Hayward uses “trans*” as it references the prefixal nature of transgender – transformation, movement sideways, across, between unfixed states. Soil, phthalates, hormones and glittery trinkets collide in a diaphanous crash, breaking into small splinters to be sucked and mouthed on, digested again and rinsed down a sink hole with leachate and spit. Part dance, performance lecture, and recycling facility, Camopansies delivers an eco-erotic ode to camp and slippery trans* embodiment in a time where there is no going back.

    Concept, Choreography, Performer: Charlie Lee
    Choreography, Performer: Iris Elgar
    Lighting Designer: Chiara Wenban
    Sound Designer, Performer: Clio Greig
    Film/Dramaturg: Sam Carson
    Development: Angie Collins
    Sound Operator/Consultant: William Palazzo
    Photography: Felix Oliver
    Videography: Alec Katsourakis

    Camopansies is supported by LGI and made possible by WXYZ Studios.









     Earlier iterations presented at
    ... QUALITY Gallery with Iris Elgar, September 2025
    ... SUPER NEW YEAR at the Grace Darling Hotel, July 2025
    ... Union House Theatre, March 2024