A RETURN TO THE TREESA unique physical theatre show for indoor theatre. Performers, leap, climb and free-fall across an elaborate stage featuring an eight-metre high scaffolding structure fitted with custom-built aerial systems. This highly stylised production blurs the lines between dance and theatre. But as well as presenting a high impact spectacle, the work is also a cautionary tale of climate change and human destruction. |
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Director's Introduction:
"A Return to the Trees investigates the psychological transformations that society may experience as a consequence of technological advancement, overpopulation of the planet and climate change.
The process of creating this work spans a pivotal period in our lives, as we come to terms with the fact that some form of climate change is now inevitable.
As we continue to relinquish grass and grassroots for concrete floors and social complexity, and replace natural environments with artificial ones, we can foresee a reality where nature is only accessible to us like wild animals are in the zoo.
How would it be to live in a world without forests?
A Return to the Trees tells a story that transcends cultures and socio-economic groups by stripping down accepted social environments to an unfamiliar place where survival is more important than custom. Set in the lowest echelon of a futuristic modern society where the Earth's surface has been devoured by human expansion, we explore what it is to be a human being.
This project is a direct development of three years of investigation during which Strings Attached has created its own vocabulary of dance-theatre, performed within a structure made of re-usable steel tubes and aerial systems that are operated entirely by the cast"
Alejandro Rolandi
Director
"A Return to the Trees investigates the psychological transformations that society may experience as a consequence of technological advancement, overpopulation of the planet and climate change.
The process of creating this work spans a pivotal period in our lives, as we come to terms with the fact that some form of climate change is now inevitable.
As we continue to relinquish grass and grassroots for concrete floors and social complexity, and replace natural environments with artificial ones, we can foresee a reality where nature is only accessible to us like wild animals are in the zoo.
How would it be to live in a world without forests?
A Return to the Trees tells a story that transcends cultures and socio-economic groups by stripping down accepted social environments to an unfamiliar place where survival is more important than custom. Set in the lowest echelon of a futuristic modern society where the Earth's surface has been devoured by human expansion, we explore what it is to be a human being.
This project is a direct development of three years of investigation during which Strings Attached has created its own vocabulary of dance-theatre, performed within a structure made of re-usable steel tubes and aerial systems that are operated entirely by the cast"
Alejandro Rolandi
Director
