explores the relationship between modern man and nature through live music, poetry, storytelling, humor, science and dance. Each character relates to the natural world from a different point of view and each struggles with his/her own feeling of disconnection. Trees are the perfect metaphor for active balance in nature - they breathe in carbon dioxide and exhale life-giving oxygen. They are an example of a quiet, interior, purifying life cycle. The focus of the work is to defy the dualism of body and mind and come back to the wild, elemental self: spontaneous and present. Reaching inward for the intuition and wisdom of the ancients and combining it with current technology can produce a future we can all live with, plants, birds, animals and humans.

Full program credits from the workshop performances on November 12,13, 2011.