A Perceptual Zone is a month-long exploration of dance in dialogue with the elements. Born from bodies attuning to land, season, and storm, it coalesces in continual contact with the biosphere.

Dance arises from the necessity to respond, moving in step with shifting conditions, shaped by the forces of nature. It is an origin of ecological art: wisdom inscribed in fascia, constellations of movement resonant with animal and elemental intelligences. It proposes an ethics of listening and being-with. It unfolds as a communion with what exceeds the self: the stretch of trees into sky, vibration of soil, pressure of air, gravitational pull of another body. In this reciprocity, rhythm becomes a living cycle — an environmental intimacy through which the human is re-imagined.

Throughout October, artists Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, Nicol Vizioli, Nissa Nishikawa, Kapila Venu, Lewis Walker, and Yen-Ching Lin offer workshops, installations, film, photography, and performance. Their practices, experimental and traditional, are gestures that honour the earth while remembering dance as both instinct and offering.

A Perceptual Zone is not performance alone. It is an opening, a space of witnessing, where dance becomes relation, navigating the currents of co-existence.

• Week 1: Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome

• Week 2:  Nicol Vizioli/ Nissa Nishikawa and Kapila Venu

• Week 3: Lewis Walker

• Week 4: Yen-Ching Lin

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