The Book of Love marked the beginning of Jonathan Baldock’s long-standing collaboration with Kokoro Dance. Created for the company’s thirtieth anniversary season, the work explored familial, romantic, maternal and erotic forms of love.

Baldock designed a series of sculptural costumes and woven masks that transformed the performers into enigmatic figures poised between the human, animal and ceremonial. Through dance, live music and scenography, the work became a meditation on intimacy, devotion and human connection.