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 plants.

The VINES process asks dancing bodies to adopt ideas from the more-than-human world to impact a series of cityscapes, just as, perhaps, plants do when enacting a reclamation of abandoned or disused areas. 

The work is currently in research development in both Toronto and Calgary with support from Canada Council for the Arts.

For more about this research process, see:

‘New Directions in Site Performance Practice’

and

‘Climate Art‘