FOREST Performance Installation

Dense, vertical, tangled. Connective tissue to roots and branches, blood to sap, wood to bark and slowed down energetic tree pulse. FOREST is the first installation of a migrating movement research project done collectively in collaboration with our tree kin and each other. 

Performers include:  Rebecca Allen, Cypress Atlas, Wes Chavis, paris cyan cian, Sierrah Dietz, Joanna Farley, Ann Glaviano, Tahni Holt, Rhi Jade, roni katz, shannon stewart, and garima thakur

The practice of FOREST in NEw Orleans took place at the Front Gallery from Feb 17 - Mar 3, performances happened throughout gallery open hours. 

Production coordination: Rebecca Allen

Lighting Design: xotchil musser

Technical Director: 

Special performances Feb 17 & Mar 3 by Serpentine choir –a queer femme choir dedicated to healing, pleasure and joyful forms of embodiment through the presence of song. 

For the past two years dance artists shannon stewart and Tahni Holt have woven their interests together creating a kinship in deeply researched embodied forms. It is a form of love and friendship that brings together creation and community, in a way that mirrors their individual practices as artists and organizers/builders in the respective places they live. Shannon and Tahni’s work resides in the study of interconnected systems–ecology, history, performative bodies (including non-human), and expansive understandings of communication. Together they have danced FOREST in Portland, OR, Lawrence, KS, and New Orleans, LA. 

Photos by: Stephanie Tarrant