SOM e.t is a living, mutating organism, a dance, and a concert. It's a universe built on relationships, entanglement, and interweaving. This performance searches for the softness that disrupt borders and creates space for imagining territories of kinships. It seeks for connection and to allow the research material to become an entity capable of having its own dreams.

Three dancers are connected through an electro-acoustic string instrument made of dried kombucha skins and piano strings. As they lean out from each other, the strings are stretched, and create resonance for the sound. Here, the self-selected or forced loneliness and isolation that might characterize our lives, the perceived encapsulation, and the individual who is nevertheless always forced to exist in relation to others are questioned. Here we are all porous beings that leak, affect and are affected by each other and our ecology.

elieli has been growing kombucha skins for about two years now. They are grown in a small pool and then dried in the sun. They require lots of care and attention. The skin of the kombucha membrane is malleable, strong, and fragile at the same time. It creates contours of our bodies, and we are shaped by it at the same time as it shapes us. Where does the self end, and where does the world begin?

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Choreography: elieli // Dancers: Alice MacKenzie, Marie Mâzer, Nathalie Wiberg // Compositions and live sound design: Brenda El Rayes // Light design: Fredrik Glahns