Exhibition Dates: 9 September - 14 November 2026
Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre
Open 11am - 3pm, Wednesday to Saturday
Enter the spiral.
At the heart of Uncharted Waters.The Journey of Mother Tongue is Primordial (2026), a newly commissioned dance film by choreographer Annalouise Paul. Rather than unfolding on a conventional screen, the work wraps around a spiral-shaped architectural wall, inviting visitors to move through the installation and experience the choreography with their whole bodies.
Across cultures, the spiral is one of the oldest and most enduring geometries. Found in shells, rivers, plants and galaxies, it expresses cycles of growth, transformation and return. Paul extends this rich symbolic lineage by transforming the spiral into an immersive environment where movement, sound and architecture become inseparable.
Structurally, the installation draws on the Fibonacci spiral, a geometric form whose proportional relationships appear throughout nature and have long informed mathematics, rhythm and artistic practice. As the spiral unfolds, it reveals the work gradually, encouraging shifting perspectives and resisting any single, fixed point of view.
Primordial forms part of Mother Tongue®, Paul's interdisciplinary project developed over more than fifteen years through collaboration with dancers, musicians, designers, technologists and cultural practitioners. Exploring four principles (rhythm, movement, geometry and technology) and unfolding over four acts (Present, Ancient Past, Deep Time and Future) Mother Tongue® considers how knowledge is carried through bodies across generations, and how movement might function as a universal language beyond words.
Primordial echoes the four acts of Mother Tongue® through the recurring geometries of the grid, the triangle and the spiral itself. Each reflects a different way of understanding our relationship to one another and the world: the grid evokes systems of order and control; the triangle recalls inherited structures of governance; and the spiral finally invites us to relinquish control and attune ourselves to the cycles of nature that lead to reciprocity. Through this journey, Primordial reflects on the possibility that renewal, coexistence and peace are not simply futures to imagine, but ways of being that lie beneath the systems we create, and to which we can return.
Join us for the Opening Event on Saturday 5 September, 6pm at the Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre.
About the Artist
Annalouise Paul is an award-winning dance artist and choreographer who creates and performs narratives inspired by living traditions and lore. Her solo practice explores the intersection of flamenco and contemporary dance, paying homage to her lineage and the global Sephardic diaspora. Through her somatic approach, she has created original intracultural choreographic processes, fostering ensemble works that can embrace dancers of diverse traditions and contemporary forms.
Her practice spans performance, choreography, directing and research across feature film, television, opera, theatre, music video and radio, as well as collaborations with community organisations, educational institutions and industry partners. Having begun her career as a dancer-actor in London and Los Angeles, her work has since expanded internationally through projects, research and touring across India, Singapore and Malaysia, cultivating enduring creative relationships and cross-cultural exchanges that continue to shape her outputs.
Mother Tongue®, Paul's ongoing interdisciplinary project, brings together multiple teams of dancers, musicians, designers, dramaturgs, technologists and creative producers in a sustained exploration of culture, memory and embodied knowledge across performance, installation and public art.
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| Monday - Tuesday: | Closed | |||
| Wednesday - Saturday: | 11:00 am-3:00 pm | |||
| Sunday: | Closed | |||
