dying and decomposing practice
45 minutes
“We don’t know exactly what is going to happen but we can invent some possible scenarios to practice with.” The audience is invited to collectively discuss and then decide how they would like to practice dying; of thirst due to heatwaves, fires and a lack of clean water, freezing to death due the collapse of the Gulf stream or drowning in a flood or storm surge. Once decided they are guided through a somaticization, a physiological journey of dying and decomposing into the land or sea. As our bodies rupture our native microbial communities are replaced by microbes in the air, the soil and sea. An invocation to all the organisms that help our transition.
The performance closes with the cast singing a song of local cultural signficance that centers nature, sharing tea brewed from forest plants, and creating a space for exchange between individual artists and audience members.