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Resisting Extinction offers practices for living and dying together on, in and with a damaged earth.

Resisting Extinction invites us to look around and notice what we are losing. Together our bodies live inside this ecological crisis. This ecological crisis is an identity crisis. Everything is shifting. Recognizing grief as a legitimate response to this multi-species mass extinction. It is a vital step to expanding our understanding of what it means to be alive in this swiftly transforming moment. We can’t rely on models that perpetuate this crisis. We need to practice embodied knowing to repair our relational field with this more-than-human world. This is an opportunity to move collectively towards creating more ecologies of reciprocity. We must hone our skills. To improvise, to play, to experiment, to be receptive, to be in the unknown and trust we have resources in our bodies to negotiate, survive, and thrive.

We gather onsite and invite the audience to take part in :

– weather walk; an intimate journey where we transform our small talk about the weather.

– in the missing the landscape comes alive, haunted by critically endangered multi-species beings.

– dying and decomposing practices into the land and sea, allow us to collectively practice for potential climate realities.

Performers: Angelika Mizińska, Nieszka Bogusławska, Tere Więcko, Bartłomiej Mikuła, Kasia Stankiewicz
Maria Loth, Otto Ramstad, and Olive Bieringa

Made possible with support from PAHN, the Directorate of Culture, Norway and Perform Europe, who is supported by the European Union, and is a funding scheme for the European performing arts sector. It facilitates international networking and supports inclusive, diverse, and eco-friendly touring projects across the 40 Creative Europe countries. Perform Europe emphasises practices rooted in sustainability and inclusivity, aiming to transform the performing arts sector and ensure a balanced distribution across the continent.

Perform Europe is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and implemented by a consortium of six organisations: IETM – International network for contemporary performing arts, European Festivals Association (EFA), Circostrada, European Dance Development Network, Pearle * – Live Performance Europe and IDEA Consult.