Woods is an artistic call for environmental awareness. A research that brings together dance and visual arts to create a unique landscape in the cities, pursuing the idea of impermanence and instability of the body, nature, climate and collective practices. It's a large-scale open air performance that engages local people to make a powerful and strong statement. While upside down, the body inverts space and questions time. For how long can the body resist? For how long can the forest resist?

In the performance, the bodies’ struggle to remain upside down calls attention to the struggle that nature itself faces. Eventually, and at different times, each body-tree falls to the ground, one by one, where they remain for a while until they rise again, changing the landscape, bringing movement and life to these Woods by falling and rising. In nature and life things are always rising and dying and so we are in this performance. Solidarity lead the dramaturgy and to build the Woods we must help each other to spread their costumes and in the end no one leaves until the last one resists, we don't leave anyone behind. The minimalist choreography calls attention to the importance and strength of the collective and the possibility of diversity within it, as nature can only resist because of its biodiversity.

A work from Clarice Lima BR with Catarina Saraiva PT as dramaturgist and Nina Fajdiga SL and Aline Bonamin BR as movement assistants and performers, together with local participants. Empathy leadS the two days workshop where we bring everybody together in touch with the work, the research and bounding as a group, respecting and valuing each one's voices and limits to remain in the upside down position.

The research is the third part of the Treelogy and goes deeper into the idea of creating an alive landscape in the city, potentiating the collective of practices, people and nature. Woods looks at these issues in a poetic, powerful, ambitious and collective way. It's a proposition from four female artists, representing different souths and believing in the importance of mixing different perspectives. Within this Woods we-nature want to resist as long as we can, together, as one.