ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the Dancers’ Forest, an example of how dance might re-align itself in regard to climate change (and its largely unacknowledged carbon footprint) by creating mini forests that contribute to the country’s green corridors. It suggests that we review the resources we use for creating dance and the efficiency and sustainability of our touring models. Dancers’ Forests offer space for dancers to work out of doors while acting as carbon sinks that offer some balance to the emissions that arise from our everyday lives as dance artists, (even when working from home), while the rewilding areas offer havens for wildlife. An environmentally responsible connection between dance, the land, and the air we breathe.
