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It's short but underneath it's forever

By Libby Scarlett 2026

Choreography and performance commission for Show Garden (by Le Jardin Project) performance opening evening in May 2026.

I was thinking about the short duration of a show garden - how to get attention quickly? What’s just for show/under the surface? How do you act when the duration of something is unknown to you?

Plants don’t know if they aren’t going to be somewhere for very long - they still do all the same things as if they were going to stay forever.

L S Libby Scarlett

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