In 2021 an animal was found in Brazil who had the combined DNA of a pampas fox and a domestic dog.

The animal died in captivity, no other creature with the same DNA has (to our knowledge) been found by humans.

In this piece I use sound, image, live performance and touch to delve into a sensory imagining of this story. Exploring the liminality of existence beyond prescribed categorisation, and radical empathy.

The Fox Dog Show

Trailer from The Lowry's Scratch X Climate Hope 23.11.2025 filmed by Joshua Rasco

This piece is in an early stage of development.

It is a performance about curating kinship with the natural world through embodiment and sensory experience.

During early phases of RnD I have been experimenting with using sensory input as story telling- through surround sound speakers, images via projection and touch to encourage the audience to imagine themselves into the shows of another creature.

The performance explores themes of domesticity/wildness, liminality and the defying categorization and the power of radical empathy. It's a kind of sensory fever dream, drawing inspiration from the performance style of Laurie Anderson and the Complicite show "The Encounter".

The piece had its first outing at Scratch X Climate Hope at The Lowry on 23.10.2025 and i will be developing it into a touring show ready for 2027.

The performance will have a full theatre version suitable for black box theatre spaces, and a lightweight version that will be able to tour to non theatre spaces.

To create this show I am collaborating with Hannah Mook as outside eye and dramaturg (Paper People, Bears, Me and My Whale)

And have been supported by audio artists and technicians We Are Stems and The Lowry

I'm looking for people and organizations to partner with in 2026 to create this project. I'm particularly looking for theatres, sound artists, ecologists, video artists, technitions, community spaces and sensory theatre makers to realise this project. Please get in touch if it sound interesting to you or your organisation!