Vines
VINES is a site-adaptive work created by Melanie Kloetzel (kloetzel&co.) with dramaturgical support from Brandy Leary (Anandam Dancetheatre). The work explores how the human body can corporeally adapt to urban spaces by rigorously embodying growth patterns from climbing plants.
The VINES process asks dancing bodies to adopt ideas from the more-than-human world to impact a series of spaces, just as, perhaps, plants do when enacting a reclamation of abandoned or disused areas.
The work has enjoyed research development in both Toronto and Calgary with support from Canada Council for the Arts.
A workshop installation of VINES took place as part of the Fluid Festival in November 2024 and a performance work of VINES will premiere in connection with New Works Calgary, with a live presentation of Emilie Lebel’s ‘field studies’ performed by the UltraViolet Ensemble in February 2025.
For more about this research process, see:
‘New Directions in Site Performance Practice’
and