Our Body of Land: Westbrook Memorial Garden project went really well! We were able to power most of our rehearsals, including our recording sessions with the generator, and could have almost powered our performances—if we could have reliably had the generator battery fully charged by sundown each day. We also bought some solar-powered speakers which helped to lessen the draw load on the generator.

Our biggest challenge was working out in the elements with no electricity or water, and so the solar generator we bought proved to be absolutely essential to our process. It was an interesting challenge to set for ourselves and we learned a lot about equipment power draw and pitfalls of a cloudy day.

We presented a workshop performance of the project in August and a premiere in October, all free of charge. We were going to present two performances of Body of Land in October but one of them got rained out. We also worked with the Westbrook Memorial Garden community throughout the process of creating the performance. Below is a short video of some of our community collaborators in their plant personas.