I am a tree in your life





I am a tree in your life is series of one-on-one performances that explores the similarities between trees and humans. The performance was staged in the Ivy Bookstore garden, formerly belonging to Divine Life Church. I performed as a tree spirit who played hide-and-seek with the audience as a way to co-learn how to be a tree. By asking the audience to remember their memories of trees and inviting them in theatrical vignettes that explores the way trees grow, struggle, excrete and wilt, I am a tree in your life seeks to learn from trees’ way of transgressing preconceived boundaries between the self and the environment.  
Credit:

Conceived and Performed by Bao Nguyen
Dramaturgy by Susan Stroupe 
Photo documentation by Lianghong Ke
Costume design by Sarah Leiva 

Special thanks to Hannah Fenster, the Divine Life Church community, an anonymous Divine Life Church member and Swami Shankarananda