Ocean Bound

Video footage created specifically for the project focuses on habitats at the interface between land and sea, human settlement and forest – places where rising water levels, caused by the deforestation of mangrove forests, coastal erosion and changes in the tides, are increasingly shaping life. Audience members and performers move freely across the stage amongst various video projections, creating a choreography in which bodies and images are interwoven within a shared environment shaped by the ocean.

‘Ocean Bound’ creates space for the profound sense of loss and for forms of mourning for which we lack the words and rituals.

The performers’ bodies are moved by the complex emotions of ecological grief. The result is a choreography straddling the boundary between the digital and the analogue, between documentation and fiction – offering space to bear the weight of loss, to grieve, and to develop a moving, hopeful and poetic language from the fragments.