Current Touring Performances

Body Island creates contemporary performance works that move between dance, theatre, installation, and embodied research. Our live projects are grounded in Indigenous thinking, somatic intelligence, and image-led dramaturgy, offering audiences experiences that are both physically immediate and psychologically layered.

Mythosoma

Yirramboi Festival Naarm Melbourne
Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts

Mythosoma is a contemporary Indigenous-led dance theatre work exploring dissociation, survival, and the body as archive. Five performers embody the fragmented psyche of one woman navigating rupture and grief, each representing distinct survival responses — protection, memory, instinct, voice, and withdrawal.

Drawing from ConTact C.A.R.E somatic principles and Māori cosmology, the work stages the internal landscape of fracture rather than a linear narrative of trauma. Visually sculptural and physically charged, Mythosoma blends contemporary dance, partnering, live vocal presence, and shifting architectural elements to create an intimate yet expansive theatrical environment. The work is suitable for festival contexts, mainstage presentation, and venues supporting hybrid dance-theatre forms.

Limbs of a W(o)man

Auckland Art Gallery
Te Papa Museum
Gus Fisher Gallery

Limbs of a W(o)man is a 15-20min gallery-based dance performance examining the body as site of structure, and inheritance. Presented within visual art contexts, the work activates space through repetition, restraint, endurance, and subtle relational exchanges between 2 performers and audience.

Operating at the intersection of choreography and live art, the piece invites viewers to encounter the body as sculpture, archive, and living tension field. Themes of lineage, autonomy, vulnerability, and structural expectation unfold through a contemporary dance duet,

The work is adaptable for galleries, museums, and site-responsive contexts, and can be accompanied by artist talks or embodied workshops.