My embodied experience of these women’s teaching and creative research as well as my informal interviews with them lead me to articulate an alternative performance paradigm hinging upon on an ecosystemic conception of organicity grounded in the scientific hypothesis that human life and natural ecosystems share fundamental features.

I suggest that the physical and vocal training, which tends to emulate natural elements, leads the performer to experience within her organism the flow of energy which characterizes the life of natural ecosystems.

I examine the body-voice connection which epitomizes this paradigm, and trace transmission processes through which an experiential understanding of this organic connection has been disseminated by Grotowski’s collaborators.