New stage production - premiere October 9 at CODA - Oslo International Dance Festival

The fold of ^ a Landscape emerges from an ongoing exploration of folding in and folding out—an approach that shapes how bodies are positioned, move, and relate within space.
This piece invites a collective process of reflection and juxtaposition, opening up multiple ways of coming together: as a group, as individuals, or through shared coexistence. In the absence of familiar habits and established structures, the work asks: what brings us together?

In this new project, Avdal and Shinozaki approach the body, its movements, and both internal and external spaces as a dynamic landscape—one that can be bent, folded, and unfolded. The fold appears as a transformative operation: a body, an object, a space, a moment, a light, or a sound may fold into, onto, or around something else. These actions form a system of interwoven folds and unfolds that spread across a room or a landscape. Unfolding is not the opposite of folding, but a continuation—one fold giving rise to another.

The performance unfolds through shifting relationships between space and movement, offering a series of expressions created through pure movement and altered perceptions of space. Transformations emerge with varying degrees of stability, reference points, and suggestive identities. Rather than relying only on order and repetition, the work allows uncertainty and difference to shape how connections form.
Folding becomes a way to introduce alternative understandings of body, space, and time within conventionally defined spatial boundaries. How might a fold across lines create uncertainty between boundaries, instead of reinforcing separation?
These uncertainties open up a multiplicity of folds and unfolds, allowing for multiple readings of a place, a building, or a room—inviting new ways of relating to space, and to one another.