MYTHOSOMA
Body Island - Motu Tiana // Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts (2026)
Myth - Mythology
Soma - the body
Part choreography, part ritual, Mythosoma is a visceral new dance theatre work by Body Island, directed by Kelly Nash, that explores how shock and trauma live on in muscle, voice and silence as shifting forces rippling through time.
Through loops, breathwork, disoriented timelines and suspended gestures, the performers create a live landscape where the body flickers between presence and absence, control and release.
Bold, haunting and uncompromising, featuring commanding performances by Moana Ete, Nancy Wijohn, Jada Narkle, Georgie Goater and Caleb Heke, Mythosoma asks us to recognise what the body holds, and how it transforms.
Mythosoma was co-commissioned by the Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts and YIRRAMBOI.
WHEN: 25-27 February, 2026
WHERE: Tāwhiri Warehouse, Wellington, NZ
LIVING ROOM Screening
with Juha Penttilä
LIVING ROOM is an 8-minute dance art film emerging from a process-based artistic project by Georgie Goater and Juha Penttilä, researched and developed in 2021. The work explores the animacy of domestic space, fluid temporalities, and the body along a spectrum of ‘living things’ in relation, through dance, video, and embodied meditative practice.
The work has been reimagined in the editing suite, honouring the process of emergence as it came to completion in 2025.
Public Premiere: Helsinki / Online 2026, TBC
The artistic development was supported by Taike and Samuel Huber (2021).
