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Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass

LEAVES OF GRASS

- 2015 -


DANCE, ECOLOGY and LOVE are the keywords for this new group work by Bud Blumenthal.

Live plants will participate interactively in the performance.

Plants will not be decoration but will be actors in the dramaturgy of a piece with 6 dancers that examines our present state of being in our environment and our hopes for the future.


Cutting-edge technology will allow the public to see the plants determine the destiny of the work.

This dance and new technology production deals with ecology as a theme for love, struggle and survival.
All interpersonal, political, ethical and even moral questions, are subservient to the ecological question.
How to care for vegetal life as much as we care for our beloved?
How to survive… ourselves?


Leaves of Grass takes off where Perfectiøn, ends.


While Perfectiøn, deals with hurling poorly-equipped into vertiginous novelty of the future and straining to maintain composure by looking for comfort and meaning in our deep Paleolithic past, Leaves of Grass continues to examine the underlying theme for salvation.


The solo’s evocation of the archaic underpinnings to our visceral understanding of the natural world is the jumping-off point for this group work’s examination of our relationship to that natural world and of ourselves as part of it.



The explosive velocity of our future is here debated, experimented with and fought over.

It is a question of love and it is a question of war.

It is beyond morals.

It is a about survival.

It is a about how to survive… ourselves.


Plant world has a leading role in this creation.
Our image of the vegetal aim will not be the same afterwards.

Video

LEAVES OF GRASS TEASER

More info on Leaves of Grass's work in progress on our blog

Historic of the representation

24 SEPTEMBER 2016

Cultuurcentrum DE MUZE, Meise

23 APRIL 2016

Coproduction

Production Cie Bud Blumenthal/Hybrid
Co-production:
Centre Culturel de La Marlagne
Botanical Garden Meise¬
Théâtre 140

Cie Bud Blumenthal/Hybrid is subsidized by the Ministère de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Dance department and Numériques Arts Department