You see.
You hear.
You taste.
Yes, you see the play,
You hear the music.
You taste the drinks at the premiere.
But do you smell?
In the world of performance, we rely almost exclusively on sight and sound, leaving some of our strongest senses untapped. The sense of smell, the sense most closely linked to memories and emotions, is absent from the stage, even though it has the power to draw the audience into a world more than any stage set or score alone. These olfactory cues evoke associations, create atmosphere and stimulate the imagination and reflection in ways that words and images alone often cannot.
SMELL is a two-part contemporary dance piece that explores the duality of scent, its power to seduce and its ability to repel. In a colourful and pop-inspired aesthetic, two women navigate the tension between fragrance and filth, between what lingers in memory and what society prefers to forget.
