quite quiet is a choreographic performance that explores the tensions between inner perception and outer projection — from the perspective of four artists of Japanese descent: three performers and a choreographer.

Drawing on references to cultural forms of expression, codes of pop and subculture, and gestures of protest, quite quiet explores how women’s roles are imposed, depicted, lived, or reclaimed. Here, quietness and silence become choreographic, cultural, and political material. The presence of a single person in relation to their environment is redefined — not as absence or submission, but as a form of nuanced and self-determined action.

Influences for quite quiet include legendary discotheque Juliana’s Tokyo, club dance Para Para, Sailor Moon, onomatopoeia, and sound — combining a mixture of humour, restraint, and stylisation. Texts, voices, scenography, and costumes form a visually powerful landscape. Fragments are reassembled.

quite quiet suggests a way of perceiving the presence of the other: not always loud, not always legible, but no less real. quite quiet leaves room for ambiguity and tension — through silence, subtlety, and collectivity. Three performers, three bodies, three experiences — overlapping, diverging, and resilient.

One inspiration stems from a silent parade — quite quiet may evoke a similar effect, using silence to shape attention, tension, and presence that confront the audience with quietness as a resonant act. Silence in Japan is not empty. It is a force—a language of its own—carrying weight, depth, and intention.