Woods is an artistic call to environmental awareness. This research brings together dance and visual arts to create unique landscapes in cities, exploring the idea of the impermanence and instability of the body in contact with nature, climate issues, and collective practices. It's a large-scale performance for open spaces that involves the participation of local residents or professional dancers to jointly build a strong and powerful work. Upside down, the body inverts space and questions time. How long can the body resist? How long will 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. In nature and in life, things are always being born and dying, and so we are in this performance. Solidarity drives the dramaturgy and builds the Woods. Woods Theparticipants help each other assemble the large and medium-sized trees/costumes. In the end, no one leaves until only the last one remains, leaving no one behind. The minimalist choreography highlights the importance and strength of the collective, and the possibility of diversity within it, since nature only endures 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.