ZEN ZEN ZO is a Brisbane-based physical theatre company that has produced 25 years of site-specific, experimental, cross-form performances for local, national and international audiences. Zen Zen Zo’s aesthetic was forged between the ancient Asian dance-theatre traditions, the European avant-garde theatre movement, and contemporary pop culture, where sound, light, movement and spectacle communicate meaning and experience.

This fusion of old and new gives Zen Zen Zo its unique appeal, and an audience base that spans several generations. Zen Zen Zo believes in a theatre of contact, in which the relationship between the actors and the audience is at once intimate, compelling and exhilarating.

Re//Birth by Zen Zen Zo

Beneath a fading sun, Zen Zen Zo’s Re//Birth tells the cyclical tale of birth, breath, life and death through a sea of shifting anomalous bodies. As explosive as our own colossal bang and as still as an embryo before she breathes, Re//Birth sways between high-energy dance theatre and moving meditation.

Drawing together contemporary dance theatre, Butoh and an ensemble of highly skilled physical performers, Re//Birth by Zen Zen Zo is a tribute to life, to death, and to all that lies between.