Dancing with the Trees

How do you create dance when nothing is fixed in advance? Choreographer Guilherme Miotto has been doing it for years with his method Instinctive Performance: dancers move not from choreographed steps, but from what their bodies tell them in the moment. In 'Dancing with the Trees', he continues that way of working.

On stage, a living landscape emerges in which three professional dancers and six children move together. Just as trees are connected through their roots, the performers respond to one another. Every movement sets something in motion; every action changes the whole. With ropes stretching across the space like root systems and branches, a network of lines and connections takes shape.

Drawing on Miotto's Instinctive Performance method, dance here grows not from fixed choreography, but from impulse, experience and bodily knowledge. The presence of children plays an essential role in this. They do not step in as executors, but as performers. Their direct and exploratory way of moving opens up the work and keeps it in constant motion.

'Dancing with the Trees' invites you to experience dance as an ecosystem. As a spectator, you are welcome to watch how a living landscape forms itself and remains in perpetual motion.