Were depth a surface is a speculative choreographic fiction that follows a human community’s encounter with an unknown life form. Its presence gradually reshapes the group’s social organization and mutual perception, distorting their senses, physiology, and language. As positions diverge and those once alike become strangers, the group is torn between adapting and resisting, with its humanity at stake should the transformation prove irreversible.

Blending theatricality, choreography, and experimental music, the piece examines human reactivity in times of crisis, revealing the fragility of community, and explores adaptability through interspecies relations and non-verbal communication. It invites the audience to follow this encounter with radical otherness, unsettling what it means to be human and opening perspectives for rethinking our futures.