SERPENTINE PRESENTS LEWIS WALKER

Serpentine is delighted to present the world premiere of Bornsick, a new performance by choreographer and dancer Lewis Walker. It will be staged at the Round Chapel, in London on 21st and 22nd May.

Limited tickets, please register your interest [email protected]

Co-commissioned by Serpentine and EAF (Edinburgh Art Festival), the performance will examine the human condition and travel to Scotland in August 2025 at EAF25.

Lewis Walker (they/them) is a London-born queer, non-binary movement artist. Their work spans theatre, film, fashion, music, and the commercial sector. In Bornsick they explore themes of humanhood, performativity through queerness and referencing.

Lewis Walker said: “Bornsick reflects the idea that we inherit illness—born into a system that shapes us before we can define ourselves. The gymnastics and dance performance explores identity as a compulsive act of referencing, an endless cycle of borrowing and reshaping of what came before.

Bornsick suggests that humanhood is a paradox; we search for something real, yet everything we are is borrowed. We long for authenticity, but if reality is only an echo of what came before, then individuality itself is an illusion; the self exists purely as a reflection.”