Presented at Snug Harbor Dance Festival, August 2025

Performed by Madelyn Sher

Music by Luiz Bonfá and Emmett Sher

Sound from 1994 footage of Masanobu Fukuoka translated by Janine Hansesn

Video by Perfect KLUTZ / Alex Romania

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How to Unfold is a site-specific piece made in response to the Allée at Snug Harbor, informed by embodied research on the “do-nothing” natural farming method articulated by Masanobu Fukuoka in the 1970s. Relating Fukuoka’s practice of doing “nothing” to the concept of “emptiness” that I’ve encountered in my ongoing study of butoh, I am interested in practicing patience and allowing myself to be transformed by my environment rather than exerting my will. Through this work I pose the question: what is natural?