
Paradox of Platypus
Choreography
Music
Masks
Light Design
Supported by
Joshua Sailo
Abhaydev Praful
Pranav Sreerag
Bharavi
Unrehearsed Residency, Serendipity Arts Foundation
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.
Performance
17, 18th Dec 2025
18th Jan 2026
13, 14th Jan 2026
20th Jan 2026
10th edition Serendipity Arts Festival 2025, Goa
BLR Hubba, Bangalore
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-2026, Kochi
March Dance, Chennai

Cross the border,
lose the map.
Follow the crack,
in the ticking clock's trap.
Where music crawls,
and movements growl,
a whispered call,
"come, come come..."
A paradox opens,
bending space into dream.
Not asleep, not awake,
But somewhere in between.
It is time,
Now step inside…
Paradox of Platypus
Awaits your arrival.




