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the NETWORK project

2017

the NETWORK project is inspired by ecological systems of communication, resource-sharing and survival employed in tree communities, to develop tools for resilient community building. Considering the ongoing climate crisis, how can all beings—trees, land, and animals including humans–survive and thrive together? 

Through site-specific experiential performances, workshops, think tanks, and research excursions we are learning together about the commonality of all nature’s sensory systems. We somatically discover our shared intelligence and how the fascial systems of animal bodies are an extension of the global mycelial networks.

Together we are devising research methods and creative models of resilient living based on horizontal exchange, trust and transforming our individualistic ways of living.

Produced by MovingGround, the NETWORK project experiences are co-created and performed by a unique team of performers, scientists, and designers per locale. the NETWORK project has existed in many phases of research and development since 2017 and will continue developing models that serve nature and all beings in both urban and rural communities. Most recently we premiered a three hour experience at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program,

the NETWORK project, 10 minute excerpt from a 3+ hour, audience-interactive, site-specific experience, which was the culmination of a day-use summer residency, during the pandemic (2021), followed by a full one month residency at Djerassi Resident Artists Program, held by MovingGround Artistic Director, Krista DeNio and Core collaborator, Biologist and dancer, Chloe Crotzer, to focus on the development and production of the NETWORK project model. A team of MovingGround collaborators then co-created and designed the performance experience. the NETWORK project model was created to be implemented as an iterative model that may act as a framework for engagement with various land sites, utilizing core principles (and “roots”) that integrate biology, philosophy, research, embodied / somatic approaches to movement and working with land. MovingGround artists bring dance, storytelling, music, audience interactive prompts and engagements, together with education about the land/site, cultural history and other aspects of relevant knowledge from local, indigenous leadership, when possible.

Bring the NETWORK project to your community!

Use the downloadable pdf link below to bring the NETWORK project to your local communities to encourage community building and engagement with the natural world.

tNp Community Offering
A reflection on the School of Arts and Culture & Works San Jose’s Tierra y Raices 2024 art exhibition. MovingGround created an hour long immersive performance experience for the closing reception of this exhibition.

“Interbeing” music video created by project collaborator, Esther Young with footage from the NETWORK project premiere at the Djerassi Program (more information found below)


Check Out Past Engagements of the Project Here!

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Krista DeNio

Krista DeNio is an interdisciplinary choreographer, director, performer, writer and educator, based in the Bay Area, California.

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