Resolution: Hannah George, Charmaine Nicole Hiller, and Hongxi Li

Retellings by Hannah George

Retellings is a contemporary dance work combining geometric movement and juggling balls to explore the lives of two people. Moving in close proximity, the dancers weave around one another, passing and manipulating objects to create elusive narratives.

Accompanied by an original score by Sofia Roubati, dancers Anna Smith and Eli Forest Bryan move through shadow, silhouette and sculpted light.

The work explores how connections shape us, bringing new versions of ourselves, our hidden facets and fragilities, to the surface. Like biological processes, these connections evolve and move us through life, just as the juggling balls move through space.

The Cocoon of Childhood by Charmaine Nicole Hiller

“If adulthood is characterised by restraint and the act of dismantling barriers in order to recognise ourselves and our desires, then childhood is, conversely, a state of being unencumbered by the weight of our inhibitions.”

The Cocoon of Childhood explores nostalgia and the process of reclaiming playfulness in adulthood against the backdrop of dystopia and destruction.

Alternating between choreographed phrases and scored improvisation, eight dancers find collective rhythm through reimagining childhood games. They whisper, laugh, create handshakes that transform into percussive sequences, and learn to hold each other close again, in a bid to reconnect with the joy and wisdom of a childhood filled with hope, giving into instinct, and feeling everything so fully.

Itch by Hongxi Li

Itch turns the familiar and awkward act of scratching into a contagious bodily rebellion, where shame, desire and euphoria erupt.

Set within the architectures of everyday city life – an office, the underground, a pub – three strangers cross paths as uncontrollable itching disrupts their identities, roles and routines.

Unfolding through surreal absurdity and dark humour, the characters move through embarrassment, intimacy, unexpected sexual arousal and hopelessness. Private shame becomes shared vulnerability as they oscillate between self-suppression and collective rebellion.

Produced by Chinese conceptual artist Hongxi Li, Itch marks her physical theatre debut, translating observations of everyday behaviour into a raw movement language.