Prehension Blooms

Robots and dance, an immersive performance experience.

Prehension Blooms explores relationships and themes of companionship and loneliness; set in a distant future and ancient past - an alien world of sand where robot creatures lurk under foot. Conceived by choreographer and director Adrienne Hart, (Empathy 2016, Puzzle Creature 2019), Prehension Blooms features insect-like robots aka 'hōki-mon' (rake monsters), designed and built by Bristol Robotics Lab in collaboration with award-winning visual artist Ana Rajcevic.

The intertwining of dance and movement between the hōki-mon, dancers and audience is presented with a cinematic, electronic soundscape to transport audiences to another time and place, composed by Sebastian Reynolds.