Unbounded Growth

Overview

Four dancers, and plant growth as the organising idea. Symbio Dance Collective’s piece builds and rebuilds physical connections between bodies until they read as root systems and branching — patterns spreading in several directions at once rather than resolving into a shape. It draws on Wa culture’s relationship with the natural world, and translates that reverence into choreographic structure rather than illustrating it. The interest is in process: how life keeps arriving through contact with an environment and with others. Part of the CCW China Season.

What we love about it:

Almost all theatre about nature is theatre about people having feelings about nature. This isn’t. The bodies behave like a root system rather than like characters with opinions, which makes it one of the few pieces here that genuinely decentres the human — the thing everyone says ecological art should do and almost nobody actually attempts. It also brings a non-Western frame for the relationship between people and land, which the Fringe’s climate programming is otherwise very short of.

Who is it for?

Adults, and anyone happy to watch something that unfolds rather than tells. No language barrier — nothing here depends on English.