NETWORK

In a time when so many forces make us feel lost, isolated, or literally separate us from one another and other resources we most need to survive and thrive— NETWORK asks us to remember, build and expand our individual and community resilience. Considering climate change, other dire circumstances we face and our need to sustain ourselves and our human communities, the project is inspired by systems of communication and survival employed by tree communities. How can we see and feel connectedness, to our own roots, families (blood or chosen) and communities? In our contemporary lives, we are often so busy “doing” that we don’t have the time and space to see, feel or realize our interdependence. That separation weakens us as individuals and communities disconnected from our interrelationship with the world around us; the resources literally keeping us alive.

The NETWORK project will work with participants in multiple communities and aims to create a project model (with each community) that will serve local communities in communications and resource sharing with one another, during times of crisis.

The project has been explored and researched in multiple phases and will premiere it’s first evening length, audience-interactive, performance experience in Spring 2021. Make sure to check out our Network Facebook group for more updates and conversations about this project

IN 2020-21:

Based on experiential research our team of performers and designers will create a multi-dimensional, participatory, tactile experience–working with trees and land, dance, theater and media design united with material installation. We are currently locating our SF/Bay Area partners for a performance experience that will take place both indoors and outdoors, bringing audiences into 

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Engagement 6: Djerassi Residency, (Rescheduled to TBD due to COVID); research residency, Artistic Director, Krista DeNio working together with Chloe Crotzer (biologist) preparing project model foundations, applying biological processes of tree root systems, to choreographic processes and otherwise project model for our 2020-21 production.

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Engagement 5: KDMG Residency July 2020: Krista DeNio and Chloe Crotzer embarked on interdisciplinary research, bringing together performative and somatic work with biology, for the NETWORK project–in the trees of the Santa Cruz Mountains. They worked in Boulder Creek, Henry Cowell State park, Big Basin, and Wilder Ranch. 

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Engagement 4: Laboratorio Condensacion, July 2019; Krista DeNio worked in research residency and workshop, Mexico City, with Arely Landeros and Martin Lanz Landazuri and led experiments with workshop participants (performers, scientists, community workers) at Centro Nacional de Las Artes (CENART)