“To be not me” is a show about human connection and how it interplays with our similarities, our differences and with the compromises we have to make when becoming more interdependent. Human connection is in between, an intention to cover the gap separating us. Feeling deeply connected is the closest we can get to understanding the question everyone has wondered at some point of their life: “what is it like to be not me?”.

The show goes back to the very basics of creating a connection to someone to see how we can make connecting deeply easier. We wish to bring the audience into moments and feelings they will all have known at one point, but that might have slowly gotten lost in our lives.

The show utilises a combination of partnering, threading, acrobatics and contemporary dance.

In the last 20 years since the boom of smartphones, the internet and social media, coupled with the recent Covid-19 pandemic our ways of socialising and connecting has undergone one of, if not the most, drastic change in human history. Loneliness and depression are on the rise in a world where the majority of other welfare markers keep steadily rising. There is a growing feeling of disconnect and detachment to society developing. Polarisation and black and white thinking is fed by modern society, and most of us slowly end up socialising only within our bubbles, where you have few disagreements in core values. The left with the left, right with the right, politically correct in one corner, conservative in the other. Some people socialise mostly in the presence of drugs and stimulants and others find themselves talking more to people online than in the real world. Online you can start to feel like an image you’re creating rather than who you are. You might have a lot of followers and people messaging you, but how many of them have an actual genuine connection with the real you? Everything online becomes permanent so the pressure of perfection becomes ever so present.