Earth Body was an improvised performance at the base of an old tree, created for the annual Art in the Garden Immersive Performance Tour series curated by Hanna Satterlee and Animal Dance. The work invited audiences into deep listening as a practice of ecological attunement, exploring the body not as separate from, but as continuous with, land, water, and gravity.

Through subtle shifts of presence and gesture, the performance unfolded as an invitation to remembrance, surrender, and care. Rooted in the somatic principle of perceiving through all the body’s senses, Earth Body evoked an ecological reclamation of self and affirmed the inseparability of human and more-than-human worlds.

From the program:

Deep listening expands our perception, moving towards an understanding of self *as* the earth body. Slow down, further down, relax another layer of tension. Who is here with us? We belong to land, to water, to gravity. Welcome, remembrance, surrender, and care. 

“It is a form of ecological reclamation of the self / this learning how to perceive through all the body’s senses.” Stephen Harrod Buhner