Body Island is an interdisciplinary arts organisation based in Aotearoa New Zealand, creating performance, movement research, and embodied learning grounded in Indigenous knowledge, somatic practice, and collaborative making.
We are currently developing Mythosoma, our Current performance work and Somatactics, a movement methodology emerging from twenty years of practice at the intersection of contemporary dance and ConTact C.A.R.E bodywork.
Body Island makes performance, teaches movement, and develops methodology. Our work moves between the studio, the stage, and the community, in Aotearoa and internationally.
We are co-directed by Kelly Nash and Nancy Wijohn, artists and practitioners whose work spans choreography, somatic bodywork, research, and facilitation. Our practice is grounded in the understanding that the body is a site of knowledge, memory, and creative intelligence.
2026–2027 | Mythosoma in Auckland / Vancouver international programme 2027. Senior Producer Yirramboi 2027 and Kaitiaki/Associate Producer Experimental Dance Festival Aotearoa 2026, SomaTactics workshop development 26/27. Intergenerational community project 2027. Postgraduate research at Toi Whakaari 26/27.