Bio:Mass

Three dancers with backgrounds in breaking, parkour, and contemporary dance perform live in tandem with film scenes of speculative far futures. Depicting an enigmatic monument of suspended plant material sealed in water, film vignettes zoom in on the tiniest details of life and zoom out on the passing of time. While onstage the dancers spiral in and out of sync, sharing tenderness and solitude, striving for a physicality that will help them thrive in a changed future.

Through the immediacy of the dancers bodies and the haunting sense of time in the filmic vignettes, BIO:MASS contemplates scale, temporality, cycles, change, perspective and endurance, pointing to the entanglement of life and the biosphere that sustains it.

BIO:MASS has been commissioned by the Sydney Opera House. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. BIO:MASS was supported through a residency at Theatre and Performance Studies, The University of Sydney, Australia; and Next Wave’s All Schools Exchange, Melbourne, Australia. BIO:MASS has been supported by Critical Path, Centre for Choreographic Research, Sydney, Australia. This project is supported in-kind by the team at Legs On The Wall, Sydney, Australia. Aspects of this project are carried out in ongoing partnership with the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan.

Image credit: Photographer, Lucy Parakhina.

Presented by Sydney Opera House