the NETWORK project bring humans, trees, land and more than humans together to feel our value for life and consider how we might survive and thrive. How can we recognize and build our resilience through sustainable living practices, communal engagement and empathy? Considering climate change, and other immediate crises, the project is inspired by systems of communication, resource-sharing and survival employed in tree communities, as a lens to consider human community building.
Directed by Krista DeNio and co-created and performed by an a team of performers, scientists, and designers, the NETWORK project creates site-specific and responsive, audience-interactive, performance experiences working together with the trees and land, utilizing dance, theater, and installation design, to create multi-dimensional, embodied experiences, connecting audience participants with the earth, themselves and one another. Together we are devising research methods and a creative model based on horizontal exchange, trust-worthiness and healing our scarcity model thinking, in the effort toward a more sustainable and resilient way of living and exchanging. the NETWORK project has existed in many phases of research and development since 2017 and will continue developing models that can serve people and nature in both urban communities and nature sites.
“Interbeing” music video created by project collaborator, Esther Young with footage from the NETWORK project premiere at the Djerassi Program (more information found below)
Recent Project Updates
the NETWORK project Premiere at the Djerassi Program
Djerassi Program PROJECT PREMIERE: July 2 & 3, 2022 @ Djerassi Resident Artists Program Based on experiential research in the environs of the Djerassi land and trees our team of performers, scientists, urban foresters, community tree stewards and designers will create a multi-dimensional, participatory, tactile experience–working with the trees, land, and site; dance, theater and…
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Tending the Living Edge with NETWORK
By Elizabeth Costello Two days after I arrived in Costa Rica with Krista DeNio and Chloe Crotzer and their NETWORKproject collaborators, I witnessed a monkey parade. An extended family of howlers emerged from the trees behind the very comfortable house in Playa Hermosa, on the country’s Pacific coast, where we were staying. The leaves shook and they appeared.…
the NETWORK project in the SF Chronicle!
A Summer of Classical, Experimental and Aerial Dance Performances in the Bay Area, Inside and Out By Rachel Howard In 2020, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, which offers artists extended time creating on 583 beautiful acres of redwood forests and grasslands east of Palo Alto, awarded a special residency combining art and science to Bay…
