Our design takes place in a dystopian future where an elusive leader controls the state by optimising every person’s efficiency through the process of “re-birth.” Each person enters an incubation state inside a synthetic embryo like casing. Once reborn, qualities that are considered inefficient by the state—like belief and individuality—are removed and replaced.

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The stage floor is raked at 30 degrees and creates a movement language where the weight of the performers are taken by the harness therefore each performer can gently bounce around the stage. We intended to create an uncanny physical language as the design is set in the unknown future.

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Every performer on stage apart from the five dancers who are birthed during preset are harnessed and flown in from above and back out to the three tiered gantry. Only the dancers [The Nose] will inhabit the stage floor on all four limbs without being harnessed. As the nose is an absurd entity, and does not obey the laws of this bureaucratic state.