A woman crouches onstage, her lower half digitally warped into the sinuous tail of an eel. Another performer’s body splinters into fragments, reassembling as something neither fully human nor machine. This is the surreal, mesmerizing world of Body Corp, the latest work from boundary-pushing choreographer Sarah Aiken.
Blending dance, digital projection, and found-object costumes, Aiken crafts a living collage where bodies morph into impossible forms—part organic, part technological. Dancers dissolve into pixelated distortions, then re-emerge as mythic hybrids, questioning where humanity ends and artifice begins. The effect is disorienting, poetic, and deeply provocative.
At its core, Body Corp interrogates our fractured relationship with nature in a tech-saturated age. Aiken, known for works like Make Your Life Count and Deep Soulful Sweats, uses glitches, seams, and digital imperfections to expose the tension between connection and alienation. The result is a performance that feels urgently contemporary—a dance of disintegration and reinvention.
Don’t miss this visually stunning exploration of identity and ecology, running 14–25 May 2025 at Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre. Aiken doesn’t just break the fourth wall—she shatters the boundary between body and world.
