ABSTRACT
Beginning with ideas and projections on nature, we explore nature as paradise, as savage, threatening or under threat and discuss our phantasy of a lost harmony with it. Performances engage with the raw materials of nature in an environmentally responsive, symbolic or ritualistic way or raise environmental concerns. Artists cross landscapes and borders in performative walks, engage in multispecies performances and ecofeminism. They demonstrate how performance may act as a critical pedagogy of embodied decolonial ecologies, raise awareness and transform lives. Ethical issues, local traditions and site-histories emerge in the process. Performers are invited to explore the issues of this chapter through practice prompts in contemplating their own utopia for a performance and in creating a multispecies performance.
