Dance Deadwood Dance : Biodiversity through movements and landscapes: a search for systems of learning.

Abstract The subject of this study is deadwood, those parts of the tree which are left in the forest as branches, standing trees, fallen trees. The study traverses between this sedimented substance and its poetic meaning which is the material relations of ‘deadwood’. The paper is letters to deadwood, who is the dance teacher. The letters are dialouges and encounters which describe everyday movements and actions and daily interations with the materia of deadwood. To pursue the creative work with what the forest has left behind is searching, and balancing actions and process. These movements implore deadwood for a new system of learning