What

A performance and an experience that invites us to remember our original relationship with each of the elements--through our beginnings and their beginnings 

The ways that our relationships have fragmented and caused abuse and harm against elements - which then harm us. With each element - the separation in relationship accuses damage to both us than them -the natural life force that keeps and creates balance IS the sustaining force underneath - when we come back into right relationship, all the elements flow naturally 

Music is the conduit of everything
Along with poetry - remind of something
Movement relating to each element with gestures 

To tell our story from the perspective of the elements themselves - aesthetic relation - perceptual relationship that makes us who we are.

Why This Matters Now

We hope for this experience to be a re-grounding and reorienting moment for all of us as artists and audience. Our societies push us toward separation and division. This performance hopes to create a a gathering, a reconnection between us and our environment, to remind us of our shared home and the unshakable interrelationship between all living beings. 

Interweaving various art forms, we want to mirror the deep connections with our planet. Bodies in motion, moving with music, caressed by air, flowing with water, feeling the power of fire, being spoken from the earth. Artists from different elements will weave differently — interconnecting arts forms and elements as the elements of the earth connect with each other to make a whole. 

The Artists

Cláudio will bring the flow of poetic words to weave the elements together in both cohesive and disrupted ways, reminding us of what we can know and what we will never know when we think/feel about the elements.  

Martha, trained in classical and liturgical dance, creates movement as an expression of intention and connection. Her work seeks to express the power of movement as a primal force in discovering connection with ourselves, with one another and with the sacred. Apollonia will contribute her experience with choreography to work in tandem with Martha to create this world of movement.

Grace is the violinist in this project, Grace will provide musical expression and material for the audience to absorb in collaboration with Will, pianist and composer of the work, Firebirth. Raphael will collaborate with Grace and Will playing clarinet for the project, providing additional artistic contributions. 

Will is the pianist, composer, and connector, Will brings new music in conversation with the movements and words that flow from Marth and Cláudio and collaborates with Grace to bring the music to life.

Visit Our Team page to learn more about each artist.