arboring: winter, a butoh vigil for the trees, directed by Harlan Rosen.

free performance, Sunday, 3/2, 1:00-2:00pm @ Indian Boundary Park

arboring: winter
sunday, march 2nd
1-2pm
Indian Boundary Park, Chicago
(free)

a Butoh vigil dedicated to and danced with our tree neighbors
a ritual practice of slow endurance
a meditation on collectivity through freeze and thaw
brightness, thirst, whispers, skin, telepathy, underworld

Performed by:
Cristal Sabbagh
Sara Zalek
Wannapa P-Eubanks
Carole McCurdy
Nirmesh ‘Dragon’ Gollamandala
Amanda Maraist
Keiko Johnson
Mars Bedard
Aurora Tabar

With live sound by special guest:
David Hurlin

For one hour, ten dancers will transform an arbored area in the park into an immersive forest of
enchanted beings, some tree and some human. Dancers disperse throughout the space and root
themselves, eerily motionless. What seems at first like a forest frozen in time gradually reveals
itself to be vividly alive, since both human dancers and tree dancers find it impossible to stay
still. Audience members and unsuspecting passersby will wander through the landscape as the
performance unfolds slowly, at the scale of tree time. This unusual scene of humans and trees
moving in unison then shifts as performers begin to rot, and their bodies give way to other
forms—pollen, flowers, worms—moving the life cycle forward.