Biome, 2007
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A corporal, visual and audio exploration of desire and yearning in the natural world.

Nature isn’t always read in tooth and claw. Different kinds of animals are often regular companions and get on well with one another. We ourselves have very few such relationships voluntarily with other species of animals - except of course with those animals that we have domesticated and enslaved. But back in our past, we had many such relationships. Today, maybe we think we are so powerful or have become so detached from nature, that we think we no longer need them.

But in the natural world at large, those relationships are widespread. Sometimes they have been in existence for so long that they have transformed the bodies of the animals concerned. Sometimes they are only just forming.
- David Attenborough from “Living Together”

Capacitor’s Biome

The collaborating artists of Capacitor have been creating dance fusion performance experiences in collaboration with scientists since 2000 in San Francisco. Through the ‘Biome’ project, we are exploring the cooperation and communication which occurs between different species in nature. Our show gives audiences a corporal, visual, and audio experience of the great interconnected web within the forest. To achieve this, we focus specifically on the cloud forest of Costa Rica where we engaged in a creative retreat in 2006. The dancers and choreographer met regularly with local researchers who are studying the canopy and the wildlife that interacts there. We use critical scientific information as a portal through which we can connect more deeply with the spirit and poetry of the forest. Besides being a great art work, our show encourages a sense of preciousness and mystery around wild spaces in nature – and potentially a resounding commitment to preservation.