The sense of touch isn't what most people expected to be talking about heading into 2020.
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And yet with COVID-19 came the replacement of handshakes with elbow bumps and the need to keep your distance from others.
So with that in mind, it isn't a surprise that a topic that has consumed the world in the wake of coronavirus is also the inspiration behind the Chaos Project's upcoming performance.
Appropriately titled Touch, the young QL2 dancers will perform the piece in a double bill with Quantum Leap in Leap into Chaos next week.
The piece saw the dancers, aged between eight and 18, collaborate with choreographers.
"They are definitely very much involved in the making of the material and the ideas and how it's brought together," QL2 Dance creative director Ruth Osborne says.
"It's great to start an eight-year-old thinking about and discussing ideas and working collaboratively with a group and developing things."
While QL2 regularly involves their young dancers in the process, this particular piece meant that they were not only were they flexing their creative muscles, the content also helped the dancers process what was happening in the world around them.
"We were looking at all aspects of touch and why we can't touch and why we shouldn't touch but what we're missing when we don't touch," Osbourne says.
"So there's a lot of beautiful moments of what interaction is and how we can value it, whether we can do it or not.
"Because at the moment with the young ones at school, they're not isolating. And we also had to work out where and how we could put a show together in this environment and within the restrictions that we've got."
Joining The Chaos Project's performance of Touch is the Quantum Leap dancers with Sympathetic Monsters.
The piece is inspired by the 2006 Shaun Tan book The Arrival, and takes on the idea that while the fear of the unknown makes people see monsters, differences and uniqueness can in fact bring balance and beauty to the world.
"Shaun Tan's book is all illustrations, there are no words and as you turn the pages, you make your own stories up," Osbourne says.
"It's often about immigrants and refugees and people who are going to another place or to something that might have a lot of fear of the unknown in it."
As well as being on stage the Quantum Leap dancers also step into the position of role models for the Chaos Project.
With a lot of the Quantum Leap performers aiming to move on to professional careers in the arts, the idea is that they help guide the way for the younger dancers.
"It's giving back, a whole circle that happens really, which is just gorgeous. I do love the Chaos Project every year. It's nice to see the humanity in it," Osbourne says.
Tickets to see the physical performances from October 15 to 18 have sold out.
To purchase tickets to the streamed performance on October 23, go to sidestage.live/ql2/.