But how is this narrative supposed to teach us to live in a multispecies community when we don't challenge our own narrative about ourselves as the rightful dominant species? Many species have lived for millions of years before man emerged from the earth – so what would happen if we open ourselves up to new ways of sensing, speculating and creating narratives that are anchored in a diverse community?

Choreographer Kai Merke (they/them) and performer/musician Mei Long Bao (they/them) will together with local plants in Brussels form a close kinship to unlearn colonial imagination and come alive to other senses. They will make songs to awaken deep tissue memories from before we learned that nature is something other than ourselves. They will practice somatic speculative fictions, prompts, songs and dances to re-establish the connections to ourselves and the land through the encounters with plants.

In the first week of the residency, the focus will be on writing somatic speculative fiction songs, anchored in a place outside. The dance studio in Les Brigittines becomes the base for the songs to be transformed into small choreographic works, which are shown on the last day of the residency.
In the second week of the residency, Kai Merke facilitates a workshop, that anchors the human body to the earth and the species connected to the place outside the studio in Les Brigittines.