dance for plants

dance for plants gives space to think the relationships between plants and their humans.
In conversation with scholars, gardeners or witches, we entangle knowledges and speculate care together, facilitating workshops and providing performances to your green communities!

Here you can find more details on the service we offer.
Check our map for some documentation on our ongoing activities.

choreography.

1.

You love your plants. Spending time with them has something special that you don’t find with any other plants. You are curious about exploring this relationship and seeing what could grow from it.

2.

Contact us! We are happy to answer your questions and hear your thoughts. To set up a performance for your plants, we need to know more about them: how many are there? living in a flat or a garden? what size, shape, color, age? With this information we can define how many dancers are needed and estimate a price depending on your location.

3.

The team shows up. We first meet with you to discuss the different steps of the performance in detail. Then you take us for a tour of your place, introducing us to the plants and their stories. For the next phase, you participate from another room. We know it sounds heartbreaking, but the show cannot be viewed because of inescapable agency issues.

4.

Feedback time! We sit in circle together with you to share reflections and feelings about our experiences. We learn as much from what you share as we learn from your plants. This moment is also for us to agree together on a special closing ceremony: before saying goodbye we spend group time with you and your plants. The service continues after we leave. Please keep in touch and never hesitate to share new thoughts or sensations afterwards!

landscape.

ECOLOGICAL

Dance for plants reduces your ecological impact by redefining your role in the ecosystem. More than making the concept of anthropocene obsolete, we give you the chance to reshape your relationship with nonhumans by valuing their agency again.

MAGICAL

Dance for plants can modify reality. Once you have called us, every plant on Earth potentially knows about your intentions. Understand the risks: at the end, you could be part of a new family.

COOL

Don’t tell your friends you just bought a dance performance for your plants if you usually avoid the limelight. In less than 24 hours your whole neighborhood may be knocking on your door with jars of homemade kombucha.

SIMPLE

No need to get high or fly to Machu Picchu. Offering art is a very simple political decision. You don’t even have to take your plants to the theater! We come to your place and it’s all inclusive.

map.

previously

TINGSRYD

September 2017

We gathered for a one week residency in the forests of Småland in Sweden, working on group care, team design and planning our future moves. Here are pictures of some plants we danced for.

BRUSSELS

May 2017

We performed for Brussels based plants with local dancers, processing our scores and trying out new ways of documenting the shows.

JAPAN

February/March 2017

Some of us started the japanese chapter of our inquiry into plant and human relationships. Get a glimpse on our Instagram!

PARIS

December 2016

Dance for plants was invited by the art school Ecole nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs to talk about humans and nonhumans and how they deal with art, sometimes.

COPENHAGEN

November 2016

DANSEatelier was making kin with dance for plants, providing a space for a workshop where we activated the compost, moving our more-than-human bodies to think together!

BERLIN

October 2016

Dance for plants hosted the VOICE WORKSHOP at köpistudio, for a common open research around sounding and plants.

upcoming

ÅRHUS

October 2017

We will be in residency at Performing Arts Platform for a month, weaving our story tellings with AURA and CEH people, dancing for the local plants and spending time in the forests of Mols at Secret Hotel.