“We do not think real time. But we live it, because life transcends intellect”, Bergson

Can time stand still? What is it about an event that leaves us feeling somewhere between stillness and movement, in the space of what was before, and whatever comes next? Gut Symmetries reacts to the impact of global events in 2021. Borrowing it’s title from Jeannette Winsterton’s 1997 novel of the same name. GUT, (grand unification theory), also speaks to the core of our being, the place where the forces of the universe become the intensities of intuition. The place where they are interpreted as sensations of the body. Symmetries, are the ties that connect us, the parrallels of our experience despite a multitude of variation.

“There is a thin line of me, wavering and not strong, that wants to learn the language of beasts and water and night.” JW

Experiencing an abstracted ‘felt time’ at the level of the body, the four dancers drop into physical states that stretch, reverse, or rupture perception, all the while creating a situation where they are tasked with an intense layering of awareness and endless forward pull of time, until it finally ruptures to reveal difference and diversity. With the audience seated in close, on all four sides, and a powerful and rumbling sound score coming from all directions, the work entices the audience into it’s world where small events of shared breath and weight take centre stage.

What would a politics of the unpredectible, lived, or virtual as opposed to predetermined and measurable look like? Directed towards unorganized eruptions as opposed to planned outcomes, it could be a politics that embraces difference and divergence, and the indeterminable goals that arrise from that.