Leave Your Shoes at the Tree How can we deepen our relationship with the environment? In this site-specific performance nestled in the branches of a living tree, movement meets metaphor, and the human body rediscovers its kinship with the natural world. Blending parkour, contemporary dance, and climbing, this graduation piece for a Master’s in Choreography invites you to witness an intimate dialogue between performer and tree. Rooted in personal narrative and environmental awareness, Leave Your Shoes at the Tree explores how we can reconnect with the more-than-human world through embodied presence. Audiences are invited to reflect on the rhythms of recovery, resilience, and reciprocity and to consider what it means to belong to a place, not just pass through