In between everywhere is a contemporary dance and social performance experience that takes place around a shared table. Artist Meagan O’Shea, together with director Xan Colman and composer/percussionist Nasra Ali Omar, invites audiences into an intimate setting where food, movement and storytelling become tools to explore belonging, distance and human connection across cultures. Through travel stories, moments of success and failure, the table becomes a map of multiple symbolic and lived dimensions. Audiences actively participate in re-enacting past moments, imagining alternative ways of acting and responding. The work questions the role of the global citizen and reflects on what it means to be a good guest and a good host in different contexts, creating a space for empathy, listening and shared presence through a collective artistic experience.
Meagan O’Shea is a queer contemporary dance artist working across disciplines, combining movement, performance and audience interaction. Her practice focuses on solo works, experimental processes and hybrid formats that explore social and political questions from unexpected angles. She has presented her work across Europe, North America and North Africa, and has developed participatory and site-specific projects with local communities. She is the founder of Stand Up Dance and co-founder of hub14 (Toronto), and has held associate artist positions with several international institutions. This project brings together her collaboration with Xan Colman, an Australian artist and producer based in Helsinki, artistic director of A is for Atlas and creator of the Dining Room Tales social art practice centred on food and community; and Nasra Ali Omar, a cross-genre percussionist and composer connected to the contemporary and electronic music scenes of Tromsø.