Rattleskin

Rattleskin is a new ballet set to electronic music that examines how our desires are shaped by the world we inhabit. Drawing on the snake shedding its skin as a metaphor for rebirth and transformation, the work examines our endless pursuit of healing, self-improvement and becoming a better version of ourselves. Moving between romantic ideals and contemporary discourses on self-improvement, social media and self-optimization, it asks how our ideas of love, happiness and a meaningful life are constructed, and how much of what we want is ever truly of our own making. Conceived as a fully immersive experience, spatialized video installations and a new media work extend throughout the entire space, forming an unified environment through which the audience moves and in which choreography, image and architecture unfold together.