What binds us together when everything else is pulling us apart? Inspired by the Rat King — the rare, uncanny phenomenon where creatures become so entangled they can never separate — Palingenesis takes its name from something older still: the idea, woven through biology, theology, philosophy and politics for centuries, that something can be reborn as fundamentally more than it was. Three lithe, masked bodies emerge and begin to morph, through each other, around each other, as each other. Are they individuals, a single organism, or something that lives in the space between? Taiwanese choreographer Chuang Po-Hsiang — hailed as his generation’s most promising choreographer — has spent four years making that question breathtakingly, impossibly physical. This is dance as an extreme expression of intimacy, trust and transformation. Dream-like audio enhances the cast’s extraordinary kaleidoscopic control, and the net effect is intense, strangely arresting, and possibly ecstatic. Australian premiere.