WHAT IS BODIES IN PLAY?

​Bodies in Play is a Los Angeles-based performance collective founded in 2017 as a platform to develop new performance events while interrogating existing models for producing dance and theater.

We produce collaboratively devised Plays in which our Bodies further the narrative through dance and movement. Catered to the socially conscious and playfully minded, our work is best viewed through a lens just queer of center, disarming audiences with pop theatricality and inviting a challenge to conformity.

​Our approach to training and education acknowledges that 1) having a body is a universally shared human experience, but no body is the same and 2) that play is essential to learning.

Interview with LA Dance Chronicle

​​​Body (noun)​

• the physical structure of a human being or animal  
• a mass, especially one considered as a whole / a collective group

 Body (verb)​

• to represent in bodily form 

​Body (adjective)​

• of, or relating to the body

​​​Play (noun)​

• a dramatic performance
• an exercise or activity for amusement or recreation
• an attempt to accomplish something, often in a manner showing craft or calculation
• freedom of movement within a space