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MUSHROOM HEAD

The Playground Theatre Show Dates: 16 Nov 2025-16 Nov 2025

Part dance-theatre, part mushroom dream, MUSHROOM HEAD is a tender, strange, and quietly joyful performance exploring connection, misunderstanding, and self-acceptance. Drawing from a rich mix of global contemporary movement vocabularies—including elements inspired by traditional Chinese dance—the piece is performed by an international cast of dancers, each bringing their own embodied histories and styles.

Inspired by the life cycle of fungi, MUSHROOM HEAD unfolds in three acts - from hiding underground, to getting tangled in the voices, to finally blooming in one's own rhythm. 

Rather than diagnosing or fixing, it offers space for difference, discomfort, and softness to exist without shame. It creates a living, responsive ecosystem where movement, sound, and stillness drift in and out like weather. This is a dance for anyone who's ever flet out of sync. Here, growing sideways is not failure - it's nature. 

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