ReRoot is a hybrid soundwalk performance created by composer and sound artist Robert Coleman and dance artist Laura Sarah Dowdall for Barnaslingan Wood. It explores the interaction of sound and touch to re-connect with the forest and our bodies and brings our relationship with the natural world into question.
 
This experience seeks to deepen and renew our relationship with nature and in doing so, allows us to challenge the existing conditions which have brought us into this climate and biodiversity crisis.

Using a variety of recording techniques around the forest including contact microphones (microphones which sense audio vibrations through solid objects) and geophones (microphones which sense seismic waves in the earth) Robert has recorded sounds typically inaudible to the human ear opening us up to a new perspective on the living world around us.

 

 

 

 

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This listening is deeply rooted in our tactile connection with the eco-system of the Woods, complemented by Laura’s practice in dance, spoken word and somatic sensing, we will explore the moments when touch becomes sound, and sound becomes touch.

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ReRoot was originally created as part of Nature and Place, funded by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Supported by Coillte and the Dublin Mountains Partnership.​
 
For a production pack and information on this unique nature based event for your event, festival or community, please  contact laurasarahdowdall@gmail.com