This workshop offered practical ways to explore how movement, environment, memory and community could inform site-responsive performance. Participants engaged with the park as a creative site through simple scores, improvisation and experimental performance encounters, creating short “microscapes” together.

The session introduced tools and tasks from Green Silence, an evolving site-specific performance project by Sarah Elsworth and Anita Clark. It was open to movers and performers from all artistic disciplines who were curious about collaboration, working with the environment and making performance collectively.

Weather permitting, part of the workshop took place in both Albert Park and Audio Foundation.

Green Silence is a site-specific research project exploring human connection to outdoor green spaces through the collision of choreography, poetry, story and sound.

Sarah Elsworth is a New Zealand-based interdisciplinary movement artist, performer and educator from Ōtautahi/Christchurch whose work spans contemporary dance, site-specific performance and collaborative experimentation. She has taught and facilitated workshops extensively in India and Aotearoa New Zealand, bringing somatic awareness, attention to place and embodied inquiry into practices that shift how participants sense, move and relate within performance contexts.

Photo by Alan Schacher