Paradox of Platypus brings a Mizo folktale of the misunderstood outcast Hmuichukchuriduni-nu to life by weaving fragments of imagination, memory, sound and movement together. The live compositional practice between musician and dancer takes audiences across a surreal landscape where roles keep shifting, and images appear, dissolve, and reappear in new forms. 

The work draws from the way folk stories change with each telling. Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, it stays in a state of becoming, where meaning is continually reshaped through presence and encounter. In places where cultural memory and history have been fractured, the piece turns to living memories to become a source for making new images, allowing what is remembered to speak within the present

Through explorations of simple patterns and familiar improvisational and compositional structures, new narratives emerge as a speculative “neo-folk” choreography. The performers conjure up a layered experience that blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality, form and fluidity, history and memory.