Zheng Bo seeks to cultivate eco-sensitive relationships between humans and beings of the plant kingdom. Alongside five Nordic dancers movement is explored to find forms for a kind of eco-sexual dance, where humans like pine trees are considered as dancing bodies. It poses a great challenge even to imagine what such dance would look like, the dancers are perceived as small and young in relation to the pine trees, whom are taller than 20 meters and between 60 to 300 years old.

Through playful explorations the human bodies approach the trees, bringing their heads towards the roots, becoming further grounded and taller, much like the trees themselves. In this position the dancers rely less on the gaze and are instead guided by smell and touch. The challenging headstands demand an interplay by the upside-down aspiring bodies, between feet and roots, legs and bark, creating a sensual play between the scents and surfaces of the human bodies and the trees. In such an inverted logic another form of intimacy arises alongside the being and energy of the pines.

Ecosensibility: Zheng Bo

Dancers: Andreas Haglund, Mikko Hyvönen, Ossi Niskala, Paolo de Venecia Gile, Adriano Wilfert Jensen

Cinematographer: Adam Nilsson

Curators and Producers: Rickard Borgström och Rebecca Chentinell , DACE - Dance Art Critical Ecology

Video Work: Färgfabriken - Stockholm - October 2021
59th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale - Venice - April to August 2022