Based on the true story of one child’s struggle with letters and words. Little Murmur is about facing challenges and overcoming the odds. An honest and funny tale about the trials and tribulations of seeing things differently.

Little Murmur was created when Aakash Odedra Company were commissioned by Spark Arts for Children to re-imagine one of their original productions Murmur 2.0 for a younger audience. Diagnosed with dyslexia at a young age, Aakash found school very challenging. Defined by his learning difficulties, not his abilities, dance became his mode of expression.Little Murmur explores the warped and exaggerated realities of living in a world you struggle to process by combining visual design and technology with dance and humour.

Little Murmur is an ode to the experience of dyslexia through dance and technology. In this piece, the visual technologies developed by Arts Electronica Future lab (Linz, Austria) are employed during the show to enhance the movement, footwork and gestures of the performer giving an insight into the dyslexic mind. Allowing the audience to see through a window, a place in the imagination where letters can fly away from the reader’s eyes like a flock of birds, a murmuration.

The show presents the challenges of growing up in the conventional education system where words and text feel like an alien language. It involves projection and tornados of paper flying across the stage. This visual quality of bringing stationary objects to life began to reflect what it is like to be dyslexic. The tricks of the projection resemble the changes of what the eye and mind see and how the information is perceived by the brain. Dyslexia allows Aakash to view the world differently and more creatively. In Little Murmur, Aakash has passed his story to a new dancer who now hunts for their own meaning.

Jump into a world of dance, technology and illustration to see this heartfelt journey take flight. Little Murmur explores the exaggerated realities of living in a world you can struggle to process. Watch bodies and words fly like flocks of birds, a murmuration, a little murmur.