THE CONCEPT
The Protocol is a contemporary dance-theatre work where three unfortunate characters find themselves in an unwanted situation: they have been chosen to be the ambassadors for the first encounter between humans and unknown visitors. Their mission is to develop a strategy (a protocol) to understand the outsider and survive this peculiar meeting. Taking this unusual setting as the starting point, the choreographer Avatâra Ayuso will take us on a journey where dance and live text question our approach to the other, reflecting on matters such as our inner fears and contradictions, prejudices and empathy. 
This work has been designed as a triptych and exists in three formats:
                                       An indoor work for non-traditional theatre venues  //  An outdoor work   //  A short film

CREATIVE TEAM
Concept, direction and choreography: Avatâra Ayuso 
Dancers: Chloe Hillyar, Georgia Thomson, Jordan Ajadi 
Dramaturg: Nacho Vleming 
Script: Avatâra Ayuso 
Sound design: Nick Rothwell
Script consultant: Michael Walling (Border Crossing)
Outdoor work artistic advisor: Kevin Finnan (MotionHouse)
Costume: Avatâra Ayuso and Chloe Hillyar 
Producer: Ornella Salloum 
A production by AVA DANCE COMPANY 
Tour in 2021:    Tour Booker:  ornella @ avadancecompany.com
R&D FUNDED BY   ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND & EMBASSY OF SPAIN LONDON
​Support in kind by: Maninahat Productions (UK), EiMa Creació (Spain), Birmingham Royal Ballet (UK), Motion House (UK), Creative Academy (Slough) and Harlequin Floors (UK), DanceXchange Birmingham (UK), Warwick University (UK)