SENSORY THEATRE
Sensory theatre is an immersive performance form that engages audiences through sensory and embodied experience, inviting story, emotion, and atmosphere to be experienced through perception, physical presence, and spatial storytelling. Rather than relying solely on dialogue or linear narrative structures, sensory theatre creates environments where audiences engage with performance through layered sensory awareness and relational experience.
Often intimate and participatory, sensory theatre creates environments where audiences can experience performance in personal and shared ways. The form is frequently used to expand accessibility, create inclusive audience experiences, and explore meaning beyond language and traditional theatrical structures.
Zya’s sensory theatre practice explores how performance can be experienced through the body and the senses, creating environments where audiences engage with narrative, atmosphere, and memory through sensory encounter. Her process explores the relationship between sensory experience, ritual presence, and relational dramaturgy, inviting audiences into immersive and participatory performance worlds shaped by intimacy and shared experience.
Her creative process often begins with sensory memory, environmental listening, and close attention to the textures, atmospheres, and histories held within places and objects. She works with these elements as dramaturgical material, allowing site, memory, and sensory presence to shape performance environments and audience connection.
Her work draws on interdisciplinary performance-making, olfactory dramaturgy, and culturally hybrid approaches to create layered experiences that respond to specific environments, communities, and participants. She is particularly interested in how scent, sound, texture, and spatial design can shape emotional landscapes, audience intimacy, and empathetic engagement.
Accessibility and relational engagement are embedded within her creative process. Her work often responds to specific participants and spaces, creating performance environments that encourage shared discovery, imagination, collective experience, and sensory connection.
Zya’s sensory theatre work creates immersive and interactive artistic experiences that prioritise inclusion, participation, and audience engagement through multi-sensory performance.
Her practice explores how sensory environments can create space for connection, cultural exchange, memory, and moments of transformation, encouraging audiences to encounter performance through embodied and sensory awareness.
Workshops & Creative Development
Workshops and creative developments form an extension of Zya Kane’s sensory performance practice, offering spaces for participants to explore creative expression through movement, sensory exploration, play, and participatory performance processes. Her workshops invite participants into collaborative and embodied creative experiences that centre imagination, connection, and shared creative discovery.
Zya facilitates sensory theatre workshops, creative developments, and collaborative performance projects across community, educational, and professional arts contexts. Each project is developed responsively, working with participants’ lived experience, creative agency, and the needs of organisations and communities. Her facilitation often draws on sensory memory, environmental awareness, and relational creative processes.
Workshops and projects can be adapted for a wide range of access requirements, experience levels, and creative outcomes. Zya is available for workshop facilitation, residencies, creative developments, and collaborative performance projects.
For enquiries, please get in touch via the contact page.
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