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We Could Break Performance
Episode 5 Teaser
Jordan King and Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan
2025

We Could Break Performance Episode 5, featuring Jordan King and Shalon Webber-Heffernan, is available to watch now. This episode touches upon their recent respective performance series at FADO, totally diy basement dinge performances, the need for earnestness, finding the beauty and performative potential in rocks, and is there such thing as bad performance?

We Could Break Performance is a podcast by Vanessa Godden and James Knott hosted by FADO.

We Could Break Performance is investigating the question:

How do we evaluate the substance of tropes enacted in performance art?

Each episode of will We Could Break Performance will feature a local performance artist and ourselves in conversation, to help us tackle our dilemma and provide perspective on the values of performance art tropes that we may share or disagree on. Does performance go harder if the performer gets harmed? Or is that negligence in disguise. Is endurance awe-worthy? Or is it sometimes used to unpoetic ends? Does nudity really bare all? Perhaps by the end this series’ run, we could break performance.

Episode 1: Francisco-Fernando Granados

Episode 2: Archer Pechawis

Episode 3: Erika DeFreitas

Episode 4: Mikiki

Episode 5: Kiera Boult

Episode 6: Jordan King and Shalon Webber-Heffernan