Casper Dillen

‘Mouth Wash and Razor Blades’ (2025) Choreographer: Casper Dillen Composer: Gia Dreyer @giadreyer7 Assistant director: Dann Xiao @dann1xiao Fashion Design: Dodam Gwon @gondodam Performers: Agelos Kotzias @ajelo___ , Cameron Jarvie @cameron.jarvie , Casper Dillen, Christy Taylor @christyctaylor , Cizzoe Yi Wang @yiiiii_wang , Dann Xiao, Edgar Ocampo Pazmino @edgaropazmino , Haedong Lee @haedonglee , Noah Henry @noahdeblack , Maieuran Sathananthan @bboybarefeet , Romain Nagata @romain_nagata , Jamie Myles @jamie_mys , Tomio Shota @tomioshota , William James (JJ) @wiy00m , Qibai Ting @qibai_700 , Yujie Duan @yujieduann Photographer: Xinyue Tao @xinyue_txy #performance #dance

Long Tennis, (2021) Performed by Casper Dillen and inge Cauwenbergh Music by Gia Dreyer @giadreyer7 Performed at CPR – Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, New York Thank you to Center for Performance Research for supporting the work @cprnyc #performance #dance #newyork

Orfeo (2022) Performance at @theplacelondon Choreographer: Casper Dillen
Composer: Gia Dreyer 
Lighting: Seth Rook Williams Costume designer: Ziting Gao
Costume assistant: Qing Zhu
Dancers: Heejin Ban, Meixuan Cheng, Dang ‘Lee Vu’ Dao, Casper Dillen, Lewis Oliver Douglas, Harman Liu Hongdao, Romain Nagata, Tong Yin Sound editing final track: Yilong Liu
Philosophical support: Siegfried Beyers Poster Design: @charliefffyy @mauriceeetan Photographer: Justin Atkins @justin.atkins @heeejinnban @romain_nagata @meithegiantrose @harman_liu @lewisoliverdouglas @dang.h.dao @yt_yintong @siegfried_beyers @giadreyer7 @_mmziting

17th May 2026 2 pm doors open 3 pm performance The Chapel Brompton Cemetery London SW10 9UG When It Rained for a Million Years (2026) is a new performance work by Casper Dillen and Small Sample Size Theatre, with stage design of kinetic sculptural works by Jude Cui. Created specifically for the Brompton Cemetery Chapel, the performance takes the form of a medley, bringing together fragments of previous works alongside newly created choreographic material. Rather than following a single narrative, the piece works through accumulation and overlap. Movements, images, and actions return in altered contexts, creating a shifting landscape of echoes, interruptions, and reconfigurations. The choreography moves between archived and new material, between the live and the repertoire, between repetition and transformation. The work continues our ongoing interest in performance as a visual medium, where scenography, movement, and composition are brought together. In When It Rained for a Million Years, the stage becomes a site of reassembly: a place where earlier gestures are revisited, displaced, and recontextualised. The result is a performance that resists linear progression, inviting audiences into an experience shaped by recurrence, juxtaposition, symbolism, and repetition. Following the performance, there will be an artist talk and Q&A moderated by Catherine Li. Poster image photographed by Xinyue Tao of Mouth Wash and Razor Blades (2025). Cast:
Casper Dillen
Christy Taylor 
Ksenia Ilina 
Maieuran Sathananthan Mooting Chang 
Neo Gao 
Satur Chong
Shannen McCormack
Shujing Huang
Tali Nishihara Jones
Xinyue Tao Curated and organised by: Catherine Li @fobcofficial @cath_erine_li @judecui68 @christyctaylor @ksenia.ili @neodasein @satur.chong @shannen_mccormack @hshu11___ @mooting_roam199 @talinishiharajones @xinyue_txy

Picture of me at @redbullbcone UK top 24 📸 taken by @senselensphotography

A selection of reviews to our work in 2025 ----------------------------------------- Mouth Wash and Razor Blades Photographs by Xinyue Tao @xinyue_txy Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren Photograph by Lila Rui Lan @ruilan_lilaa 1 - Written by Bruce Marriott published at @theplacelondon 2 - Written by Linda Rocco (@lindaonmars ) published at @fakewhalestudio 3 and 4 - Written by Isabelle Enquist (@isabelle_enquist ) published at @danceartjournal 5, 6 and 7 by Bruce Marriott posted published at @liftedlegdance ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------ ‘Mouth Wash and Razor Blades’ (2025) Choreographer: Casper Dillen Composer: Gia Dreyer @giadreyer7 Assistant director: Dann Xiao @dann1xiao Fashion Design: Dodam Gwon @gondodam Performers: Agelos Kotzias @ajelo___ , Cameron Jarvie @cameron.jarvie , Casper Dillen, Christy Taylor @christyctaylor , Cizzoe Yi Wang @yiiiii_wang , Dann Xiao, Edgar Ocampo Pazmino @edgaropazmino , Haedong Lee @haedonglee , Noah Henry @noahdeblack , Maieuran Sathananthan @bboybarefeet , Romain Nagata @romain_nagata , Jamie Myles @jamie_mys , Tomio Shota @tomioshota , William James (JJ) @wiy00m , Qibai Ting @qibai_700 , Yujie Duan @yujieduann Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (2025) Choreography: Casper Dillen Music: Christy Taylor Performers: Casper Dillen, Charles Hua, Christy Taylor, Dann Xiao, Inge Cauwenbergh, Mahxium Ogyen Chung, Xinyue Tao, Yujie Duan Organ: Joe Waymouth Bell ringers: Kate Hunt, Remo Ruocco, Fabienne Wattam, Bianca Nicoleta, Denise Welch Charlotte Kirwan, Nick Bendelow, Michael Uphill Technical support: Nick Bendelow With Special thanks to Revd. Joshua Rey Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren has been made possible with kind support from the London Borough of Wandsworth through the Wandsworth Arts Fringe Grant and Welcome to Wandsworth.

Traveling memories (2024) Performance, 0 min 15 sec. Performed by Casper Dillen and Minghao Sun @minghao_.sun Featuring Neo Gao @neodasein Photograph: Ziying Wang @ziyingwang_ph An intervention lasting no longer than the average glance at a painting. A snapshot of intimacy: one man trapped with his head inside the underwear of another who is rushing through the gallery, forming a fleeting, hybrid body.

Archive 06/06/2025 A conversation about our piece ‘Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren’ which premiered 2025 June. With music composed by Christy Taylor and performed by Casper Dillen, Charles Hua, Christy Taylor, Dann Xiao, Inge Cauwenbergh, Mahxium Ogyen Chung, Xinyue Tao, Yujie Duan and Joe Waymouth. Lovely speaking to Jason Rosam on Riverside radio

DO BABIES CRY IN THE WOMB? Public performance in Aoyama Park, Gaienmae, Tokyo Free, no booking required 13 October 2025 9pm 19-8, Minamiaoyama 2-Chōme Minato, Tokyo Japan 107-0062 30min outdoor performance Direction: Casper Dillen Music: Masatake Abe @masatake_abe Performers: Casper Dillen, KN, Octo @kn2198_hhfs @octo_______ Supported by: Elsewhere Culture Weather report: let’s hope it doesn’t rain Location report: text @caspucci if you can’t find the place #post-dance #music #performance

PLAY GROUND is happening again Performances start at 8 pm 17 and 18 October 2025 Free, no booking required Outdoors Pedlar’s Park Vauxhall Walk London SE11 5JT Friday 17 October Muhammad Muhammad Fan Bangyu Nefeli Kentoni Pil and Galia Kollectiv Saturday 18 October Yujie Duan Christy Taylor Annie Finn Dann Xiao Poppy Waxman Nan Zhu Xiao Wan Casper Dillen

‘Babies, they are our future right?’ (2024) Metal, steel cycle rack, weather resistant readymade assemblage, car seat infant carrier 203cm x 156cm Exhibited part of the group show Future Archaeologies at @camdenartcentre Car manufacturing, the production of children and abstraction are suggested to be in a destructive conflict. engaged in a lethal game of rock, paper, scissors. the car crushes the baby, the vehicle's aesthetic reality is undermined by it's own shadow silhouette and the abstraction lacks knowledge of the possibility of a fetus. Nature, society and a womb from the future. #sculpture #groupexhibition

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, performance, 41 minutes, 2025 Excerpt Choreography: Casper Dillen Music: Christy Taylor Performers: Casper Dillen, Charles Hua, Christy Taylor, Dann Xiao, Inge Cauwenbergh, Mahxium Ogyen Chung, Xinyue Tao, Yujie Duan Organ: Joe Waymouth Bell ringers: Kate Hunt
Remo Ruocco Fabienne Wattam Bianca Nicoleta, Denise Welch Charlotte Kirwan Nick Bendelow Michael Uphill Technical support: Nick Bendelow With Special thanks to Revd. Joshua Rey Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren has been made possible with kind support from the London Borough of Wandsworth through the Wandsworth Arts Fringe Grant and Welcome to Wandsworth.