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

This work is in the early stages of development.

It is a performance about cultivating kinship with the natural world through embodiment and sensory experience. The piece invites audiences to feel their way into another creature’s perspective - shifting perception through sound, image and touch.

During early R&D, I’ve been experimenting with sensory storytelling: surround sound, projected imagery and tactile elements that encourage audiences to imagine themselves inside the sensory world of another being.

The work explores themes of domesticity and wildness, liminality, the refusal of fixed categories, and the power of radical empathy. It unfolds as part performance lecture, part sensory fever dream, drawing inspiration from the performance practice of Laurie Anderson and the immersive audio-led work of Complicité.

Early ideas were shared at Lowry's Scratch X Climate Hope event on 23.10.2025. The Fox Dog Show will now be developed into a touring production, with completion planned for 2027.

The work will exist in two formats:

a full theatre version for black box spaces
a lightweight, adaptable version designed to tour to non-theatre venues

Photo credits Lydia Hooke

The Fox Dog Show responds to an urgent cultural and ecological moment in which many people feel profoundly disconnected - from the natural world, from each other, and from their own embodied experience.

At a time when climate narratives are often dominated by data, catastrophe, or abstraction, this piece offers a different entry point: one grounded in sensation, empathy and lived experience. By inviting audiences to encounter the world through another creature’s sensory perspective, the work cultivates forms of attention and care that are difficult to reach through language or information alone.

The performance also speaks to a growing need for spaces that allow complexity, ambiguity and emotional processing. Rather than presenting solutions or moral positions, it creates a liminal space where audiences can sit with uncertainty, feel into non-human ways of being, and question inherited divisions between domestic and wild, human and animal, self and environment. This kind of radical empathy is increasingly vital in a world shaped by extraction, categorisation and speed.

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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 seeking people and organisations to partner with in 2026 to help realise this project.

The work will be developed throughout 2026, with previews planned for Spring 2027, followed by touring and a potential run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2027.

I’m open to a range of partnership models, including R&D hosting, co-commissioning, technical or artistic collaboration, and knowledge exchange. In particular, I’m keen to connect with theatres, sound artists, ecologists, video artists, technicians, community spaces and sensory or immersive theatre makers who are excited by interdisciplinary, research-led practice.

If this resonates with your interests or your organisation’s priorities, I’d love to talk more.