An intimate participatory performance by andrea haenggi and Winonaalice 450, with live-sound by mike clemow that practices access and care through shared listening, ecological memory, and multiple ways of sensing. Participants are seated in a circle around Winonaalice 450, a slice of elder tree salvaged during the violent destruction of East River Park/LES, participants witness a dialogue of movement between the dancer andrea and Winonaalice 450. Live sound is generated through microphones placed in intimate proximity to the body and the tree slice, making audible subtle, often private actions of breath, friction, contact, and touch. Agar-based translucent “blindfolds” are available to put on or take off at any time, inviting shifts between clarity and blur and allowing each person to choose how they orient, sense, and relate.

East River is a saltwater tidal estuary. A moving body. Winonaalice 450 is a slice of a London plane tree. It is a hybrid of Platanus orientalis and Platanus occidentalis.
Cut in the name of “progress.” One of 1,200 trees and 57 acres erased at East River Park.
On landfill. On stolen shorelines. These elders held the landfill for 70+ years.
Do you hear the voices of Lenapehoking’s urban forest elders? Trees and land disappearing.
For development. For flood-protection walls. Progress for whom?
We land defenders were not able to save any life in East River Park.
It taught me community and friendship.

Born in a Swiss farming village andrea haenggi is residing half of their life in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, andrea haenggi (she/they) is a body-based transdisciplinary artist, choreographer, and dancer-improviser who cultivates a research-based ethnochoreobotanographic practice. Rooted in co-creating dance with land–water relations, plant life, and more-than-human kin, their work unfolds through improvisation and ecological fieldwork that moves between outdoor sites and indoor performance spaces.

In this practice, more-than-human beings are collaborators, performers, mentors, and directors, shaping the choreographic process alongside human participants. Her work fosters multispecies relations in the present while engaging ongoing questions of decolonization, climate change, feminism, liberation, care, and collective memory. She is co-founder of the Environmental Performance Agency (EPA) and the Hydrofeminist Map Collective.
ID: andrea_haenggi

mike clemow is a transdisciplinary artist and composer who is interested in (field) recording, listening and improvisation as cycle of praxis aimed at situated transformation, contingent on place and presence. https://www.michaelclemow.com/ ID: mikeclemow

Keep in Our Circle preps for the performance at the Visibilize-ing Care Festival

Keep in Our Circle preps for the performance at the Visibilize-ing Care Festival

Keep in Our Circle preps for the performance at the Visibilize-ing Care Festival