“Slug Meal” explores a sensation of “matter out of place”:  rooting from conceptions of immigrant food as distasteful.  Haunted by a swallowed slug, this piece is a performative  digestion, complexifying ideas of belonging and implications  of ‘filth’ in an asian, feminised body.

Set amidst the echo of ‘immigrant identity’,the foods-smells-sensations that are brought from one place to another are at a risk of decontextualization, or in other words - whitewashing. The scene becomes at once, both washed and dirty. The performer undulates between formal abstraction through decontextualized objects and the visceral emergence of their own felt body.

Awarded the Prix du CALQ Work of an Emerging Artist 2024

PRESS:

“ Percutante et provocante, cette performance de Camille Huang fait évoluer la danse contemporaine vers de nouveaux territoires. À travers une démarche de création assumée et réfléchie, Camille Huang explore les thèmes de la pureté, de la saleté et de l’appartenance. Assistant à une performance chargée émotionnellement, le public est témoin d’une puissante transformation à la fois physique et scénographique », ont mentionné les membres du jury réunis par le CALQ.”  
(Culture Montreal, 2025)


The performer is haunted by the imagination of the slug, of slimy digestion, disgust, taste and distaste. This piece works with a digestive slime, emerging from the cultural meaning makings of taste and distaste, purity and dirtiness. This piece is a performative post-digestion of an inter-cultural inquiry between whiteness and the body I inhabit: complexifying ideas of purity, belonging and implications of ‘filth’ in an asian, feminised body.

OFFTA Festival 2024 - World Premiere, Presented by La Serre - Arts Vivants
SUMMERWORKS LAB 2024, Presented by SummerWorks Toronto, co-produced DanceWorks and Buddies in Badtimes
LABDIFF 6 2025 - Presented by Tangente Danse, Montréal