What does it feel like to clap for the soil, a tree, the sky? While our planet continues to warm from systems of capitalism, we can still celebrate and reconnect with these ecological communities in an effort to cultivate awareness and action on a collective scale.

Clapping is a contagious behavior, like a yawn or laughter. An individual clap soon becomes collective, prefiguring the type of responses necessary for halting the damage to our ecosystems. Clapping is galvanizing as sound and as action. When the individual claps, they announce and invite others into their sense of appreciation. When the group claps they affirm their sense of themselves as a collective, united by gratitude and celebration.

This outdoor, immersive dance performance attempts to restore our relationship with our local ecosystems through tapping into the radical present through a combination of performance and somatic practice.

Note: The performance time on 9/19 and 9/20 is 6:30 pm.