Dance with Rhus engages with smoothly polymerizing yet blistering plants. Source for finest lacquerware, cosmetic ingredient and at the same time cause for heavy contact dermatitis: Rhus vernicifluum is a plant to which human bodies responds in a broad variety of ways. With urushi laquered paper plates to be used by the participants Dance with Rhus lures into a world of dangerous opportunities. With botanical excursions, crafting, online research and a video diary the lecture performance searches for an apt perspective to witness the plant‘s smoothing, yet destructive potential.