The Use of Performance Art for Environmental Restoration
These are Exercises from Section One — Calling the Frogs Back.
In this section are exercises used to develop some of the major themes developed for Calling the Frogs Back; Sense of Place, Mutuality, Elements, Endangered and Who Tapped the Frogs In.
Everything in our Wilderness has a voice. The Heart of Nature is a character, Clear-cut, the Wild Place—all have voices. Below each exercise are some of the writings done by the students.
VISUALIZE:
Entering the frog's world we step into the thick of wilderness. There is a special place called "No One's Place" in the light, the clearing ahead of us and we can feel its textures, sounds and moods. Wild or serene, it draws us to the center of the forest, to the wild place as if it were a creature with size and substance of its own. What is this place like for you, what lies at its center? Just how wild is wild and how can wild get tame? Can something be tame and still be wild?
Recipe for a Forest Earth richest, darkest Water, Air, wind Fire, heat Forest in flora Fauna, deer, birds, Age for 300 years |
Sense of Place A tangled mass of loveliness |
The Wild Place Let the sun rise and shine 
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