Green Move

Forest bathing is a wellness trend in Japan. This “forest bathing” describes walks during which the environment is grasped with all the senses. Scientists have found that people who spend longer periods of time in nature have a stronger immune system and are less stressed. Canan Erek was fascinated by this. She is the choreographer of our second Ensemble Mobil production “Green Move”, which was performed in the Kurparks Bad Soden, Bad Vilbel, Bad Nauheim and Bad Homburg from September 10 to 17, 2017.

Spa parks are supposed to be places of recovery. So they’re not that far removed from the Forest Bathing idea. Unlike forests, however, spa parks present themselves in a very designed way. The question is therefore: What effect does man-made nature have on city dwellers seeking inner peace? Together with four dancers from the Rhine-Main region and the Berlin dancer Alessandra Defazio, Canan Erek got to the bottom of this question. In the process, similar but not exactly the same pieces were presented in all the parks, because in each location the dancers reacted to the site-specific conditions. They did not act as individuals, but as a single organism.