Lonely Species - Bodine Sutorius & Nikki Ong

A physical dialogue between human and soil

Lonely Species is a performance about alienation from nature and loneliness in times of extinction. Bodine Sutorius and Nikki Ong look for new ways of living together with the soil from which they were once born. They attempt to capture the capricious relationship between people and landscape in a physical and musical language. This is a language with no problem performance.

As preliminary research for this performance, Bodine and Nikki walked the Kungsleden trail in Swedish Lapland. Separately, they trekked 440 kilometres through dense forests and past snow-capped mountains. For twenty-four days, they exchanged their suburban lives for the rugged landscape. In this way, they attempted to find answers to the questions underlying this performance. Can a modern man still be wild? How do you connect with non-human life when the world you live in is so human? Can we still feel part of an ecosystem?

About the makers

Bodine Sutorius (1998) is a performer and theatremaker. She graduated from the Mime Course at the Academy of Theater and Dance in 2020. Bodine played with various theatre companies such as Jakop Ahlbom Company, NITE and Maas Theater and Dance. She won the André Veltkamp grant with her solo performance Becoming.

Nikki Ong (1998) is a writer and theatre maker. She graduated from the Writing for Performance course at HKU in 2023. She worked, among other things, as a playwright for JTSZO, a play translator for NITE, and a dramaturge in the collective De Pierewaaiers. She also writes poetry and makes music. With her final work, Waterbeing: An Attempt Not to Be Human, she won the Pluijm graduation prize.

Context program

An introduction and discussion will take place before and after the performance. More information about this will follow soon on Podium Mozaiek website.