ABSTRACT
How can performance be harnessed as an active technique of engagement with climate change? What is the relationship between the Anthropocene, performance, and oceanic entanglements? Drawing on the idea of the aquapelago and applying choreography techniques to the ecological history of Lenapehoking, the indigenous name for Manhattan, this chapter explores the agentic potentials of performance as a tool of inquiry into the histories of the seafaring past. Dutch and Portuguese maritime histories provide the backdrop for a method of decoding the storms of decolonization.
