Still Life is a new creation for MIRAI MORIYAMA and DANIEL PROIETTO, two incredible performers who both have ventured far beyond contemporary dance in search for new physical expressions – together they share experience from working with kabuki, butoh, contemporary theatre, film and television. Still Life is a work that innately deals with nature – within and without – exploring how we can mend our relationship with ourselves, and in turn each other and the living world around us.

Still Life, translates into French as Nature Morte – dead nature. Butoh is often described as living death, brought forward by distress. A state of dying, still alive: a suspension of grotesque dilapidation. What better image to describe our time? Nature is dying, and all the while we’re rendered immobile, stuck in our still lives – living, but dying. Through the windows of our little chambers, we watch forest fires and torrential floods tear away at the landscape – we stare life in the face – transfixed by the constant echo of our desires, what we think we want – predicted for us, on the basis of our fractured selves, millions of data-points re-hashed and sold back to us as advertisements for lives we wished we were living: connected, disconnected.