Written in the body

A duet about memory and touch and consent.

Two women delve into their personal and shared memories. They reveal their histories of tactile encounters with people, places and environments – the funny ones, the weird ones. The really not so good ones.

It's a sometimes joyful, sometimes confronting experience as we go on a journey with the performers. Sometimes their words come tumbling out and connect with our own stories. Sometimes there is nothing to say. Then their bodies do the speaking.

Physical contact holds communities together. What do we lose when this disappears?

This new dance piece will bathe you in sensation, washing over you and through you – in focus, or drifting. It was imagined long before Covid-19 changed our understanding of touch and how people connect with each other. And yet, here we are, re-learning how to relate socially, physically and emotionally. Rebuilding our sense of ourselves.

Written in the Body is a gentle, quietly intelligent probing of our experience of the world via our bodies, skin and hands. ★★★★ Guardian