Join us — Alfredo, Micaela, and Maxwell — for our third and final year of sharing our long-term project between dance and ecology, Punctures, with Stamsund Teaterfestival.
Instead of bringing anything to a close, we want to share our journey so far while continuing to expand the project with you. A lot has changed for Punctures over the past three years. It’s gone from being the seed of an idea, to a real hands-on project where we’ve sown wildflower meadows, dug ponds, and planted over 1,500 trees amongst the agricultural flatlands of northern Italy. Along the way, our understanding of biodiversity stewardship has deepened through an ever-expanding notion of care, with the help of a growing community of local and international friends.
This year in Stamsund, we are focusing on further expanding our practices of care toward the non-human, and we would like to share this with you. Through two sessions, we’ll try out different ways of observing and tuning into the non-human world around us, together. What could it mean to engage in body-based practices of care, beyond species boundaries? How can the ways we move through the environments around us be a part of practicing care? Let’s find out together.
During each care session, we want to share the eco-somatic* practices we’ve been developing on our land in Italy, exploring how these practices could relate to the outdoor environment of Stamsund Teater Festival.
Working from the outside-in, we will facilitate sensory and movement-based encounters with the nonhuman life around the festival, seeing how this dedicated time for observation and connection could be considered as care — both for ourselves and the wider environment around us.
Bring warm and weather appropriate clothes, and in case of very difficult weather we will bring some elements of the outdoors indoors with us.
*eco-somatics is a growing approach to body-based practices that explore the permeability and interconnectedness between our bodies and our environments.
Punctures is a project between dance and ecology, lead by Micaela Kûhn, Alfredo Zinola, and Maxwell McCarthy. Existing alongside our individual and collective work in dance, it is an experiment in pursuit of the question: what can we do as artists for the ecological cause? Created in collaboration with the environmental association Federazione Nazionale Pro Natura in Italy, Punctures is a project that aims to create a network of stepping stones, small pieces of land planted with diverse habitats rich in biodiversity, with the goal to create refugia in the middle of the intensive agriculture landscape — to create small islands of diversity within landscapes of widespread monoculture, allowing biodiversity to thrive.