Soil:Field of Awareness (Immersive Performance)

Join an immersive performance experience at the origin point of the largest underground oil spill in the nation in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Become the voice, movement and witness of the soils and waters of the Newtown Creek through Butoh-puppetry, sound vibration, live drumming and music. Meet us at Penny Bridge, Brooklyn for SOIL:FIELD of AWARENESS and close out NYC Climate Week with a deep, sensory attuning to the planet. Nourish your nervous system, your spirit, and the Earth. Slow down to meet the ecological rhythms of soil, tree, water, stone and bone. TWO EVENINGS ONLY September 26 + 27 Penny Bridge, Greenpoint Entrance @ 4pm This project approaches performance as a form of ecological listening, using the body, vibration, movement, puppetry, and sound to cultivate awareness of the histories held within land and water and of the relationships between human and more-than-human life. SOIL:FIELD of AWARENESS is presented by the New York Butoh Institute. This program is made possible in part by the New York Department of Cultural Affairs. With support from community partners Urban Soils Institute, Newtown Creek Alliance, North Brooklyn Parks Alliance, Noo Arts, Holes in the Wall Collective and grouphug magazine. CREATIVE TEAM Production Team: Marina Heron Tsaplina (Artistic Director) Caitlin Adams (Creative Producer) Daniel Wendlek (Technical Director) Butoh-puppetry: Stephen Carrington Ash Ragus Oscar Suh-Rodriguez Marina Heron Tsaplina Moira (Yuhan) Zhang Music & Sound Vibration: Cal Fish (musical composition) chai smith (vocals and instrumentation) Gisela Sanders Alcántara (voice vibration) Paul Nabil Matthis (drums) Shawn Banks (drums) Design & Fabrication Team: Samia Cohen (divination of Mycelial Web pattern) Fan Kong (sacred geometry bioplastic fabrication) Iris Steven Lasson (fabrication of metal hoop for Hollow Tree Mandala) Ofelia Mangen (weaving of the bark for the Hollow Tree Mandala) Normandy Sherwood (Costume Designer) Marina Heron Tsaplina (design and fabrication of Butoh-puppetry soils-objects) Additional Support: Izzy Groenewegen (Program Designer) Marie Lorenz (project advisor) Priscilla Stadler (I Ching divination) EJ Vilchez (Community Outreach) Community Partners: Urban Soils Institute North Brooklyn Parks Alliance grouphug magazine Holes in the Wall Collective Noo Arts Newtown Creek Alliance ecoartspace