It’s a performance that negotiates and accommodates theurban environment and its organic surroundings, aiming to create a sense ofvisual serenity.
Forests are crucial for maintaining the health andwell-being of our planet and all its inhabitants, including humans. Researchhas found that spending time in a dynamic environment around trees and naturereduces depression and anxiety, decreases levels of the stress hormonecortisol, can reduce blood pressure, lower heart rate, improve overall mood,and increase people's sense of well-being. In Japanese culture, there is aforest therapy practice called Shinrin-yoku.
With this dance performance, we invite the audienceto visit a liminal space beyond their familiarity with their hometown and entera meditative state where synesthetic revelation can arise with questionssuch as "Can my city be my forest, or do I need more forest in mylife?" The spectator can witness the performers embodying the concepts ofnatural landscapes, which undergo a metamorphosis into expressions of deeplyburied emotional states of urban tension.