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 images appear, dissolve, and return in new forms. 

As roles shift, and relationships are renegotiated, the power of the narrator keeps switching, echoing the way folk stories change with each new telling. Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, the performance remains in a state of becoming, where meaning is continually reshaped through live composition. In places where cultural memory and history have been fractured, the piece turns to remnants of memories to source sensations, allowing what is remembered to speak within the present through movement and sound.

Generating simple patterns and compositional structures, the performers conjure up a speculative ‘neo-folk’ choreography. What emerges is a layered experience that blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality, form and fluidity, history and memory, inviting the audience into a shared act of remembering and retelling.