Soils and Spirit is a performance, site-specific installation, and participatory experience to bring people closer to the memory, spirit and communication of brutalized, ancient, endangered and disabled living soils.
Soils and Spirit is conceived by interdisciplinary eco-puppetry artist Marina ‘Heron’ Tsaplina to connect people from diverse lineages to the histories and spirits of place.
Begun in 2022, Soils and Spirittakes place on theatrical stages and in site-specific locations of extraction.
Thank you to all people, partners and funders who have contributed to Soils and Spirit so far:
Funders: Bass Connections Davis Center for Performing Arts Duke Arts Duke Theater Studies Eddy Foundation Georgetown Disability Studies Georgetown Theater Studies NYSCA Puffin Foundation Sane Energy Project
Partners: African American Dance Ensemble Broadway Stages Culture Push Duke Campus Farm Duke Forest Duke Fungi Lab EcoArtSpace Friends of Buttonhook Forest Future Forests Reimagined No North Brooklyn Pipeline Alliance NOoSPHERE Arts Object Movement Puppetry Festival Orion Magazine Plenty Canada Sane Energy Project Social Justice Movement Lab - ThinkDance Split Rock Arts Urban Soils Institute Wildlands Network
People / Collaborators: Kate Alexandrite Torry Bend Julia Watts Belser Tracey Bilski Journei Bimwala Margaret Boozer Johanna Rose Burwell Kevin Caves Taari Coleman Mauri Connors Genna Beth Davidson Maya Edelman Vale Espinoza Jessica Flemming Laura Grant Chris Green Sara Hart Molly Haviland Amy Kenny Nance Klehm Petra Kuppers Christine Laporte Sarah Lafferty Larry McDermott Jules Odendahl-James Jessica Orzulak Miguel Peschiera Julia Piper Londs Reuter Nohham Cachat-Schilling Gisela Sanders Richard Shaw Shino Tanikawa Blake Tedder Mobi Warren Patricia Watts Julianne Warren Angela Wei moira williams Johann Montozzi-Wood Katie Yale Robert Zimmerman
This is a growing list. Thank you for your support in fulfilling the vision of Soils and Spirit.
