contact

contact sets the body in relation to other forms of life, moving through fractured habitats and mediated environments it cannot fully inhabit. It asks what the body carries when a landscape is lost: held in muscle, motion, and touch.

The work is guided by three figures: the Greater Flamingo, the Chinese Cobra, and the Northern White Rhino, each of whom has, at some point, been kept by the London Zoo. Through posture, weight, and locomotion, the choreography traces grief, habitat loss, and the fragile bonds of motherhood that reach across species.

A translator sits at the threshold of these worlds, weaving field recordings and live instrumentation to carry performers and audience through each terrain.

For this evening, Raleigh Chapel is transformed into a landscape in perpetual shift, its surfaces dissolving across three acts. Two bodies adorned in a second skin move into the space.

The performance takes place in mid-June, at twilight. Doors open at 8pm.