MUSHROOM HEAD

Xinyuan Qi

We meet, grow and survive in a fungal dream

16 Nov 2025

PERFORMANCE DETAILS

16 Nov 2025
4.30pm,
Full: £16
Conc: £14

Part dance-theatre, part mushroom dream, MUSHROOM HEAD is a tender, strange, and quietly joyful performance exploring connection, misunderstanding, and self-acceptance. Drawing from a rich mix of global contemporary movement vocabularies—including elements inspired by traditional Chinese dance—the piece is performed by an international cast of dancers, each bringing their own embodied histories and styles.


Inspired by the life cycle of fungi, MUSHROOM HEAD unfolds in three acts - from hiding underground, to getting tangled in the voices, to finally blooming in one's own rhythm. 


Rather than diagnosing or fixing, it offers space for difference, discomfort, and softness to exist without shame. It creates a living, responsive ecosystem where movement, sound, and stillness drift in and out like weather. This is a dance for anyone who's ever flet out of sync. Here, growing sideways is not failure - it's nature. 

Age recommendation: All Ages
Duration: 30 minutes
Price: £16
Languages: English
Access: Wheelchair accessible

Cast & Creatives

Producer: Ariel Yuaner Xu
Director & Choreographer: Joyce Xinyuan Qi
Screenwriter: Mengdi Li
Lighting Designer & Technician: Allie Yu Hu
Composer: Juice Cui
Costume Designer: Yiqi Kong
Graphic Designer & Sound Technician: Zhaoying Yu
Graphic Designer: Jiaqi Liu
Director Assistant: Ximan Li
Photographer: Shaw Liu, Singe, Yunyue Zhou
Dancer: Joyce Xinyuan Qi, Mengdi Li, James Shing Mu Cheng, Oliwia Eziah Miszczak, Ka Ki Christina Lai, Xiaowei Ren

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