Grisha  Coleman’s Echo::System - Treadmill Dreamtime, Running in Place, a collaborative project drawing its audience into an immersive multi-media performance and installation. Coleman, formerly a dancer with Urban Bush Women, marries her background as a writer and scholar, with her artistic expertise composing, performing and developing choreography. This project builds on her five-piece series Echo::System - a response to our current global crisis of humans’ inability to reflect upon our impact on the natural world. The dynamic performance features a nomadic group exploring and experiencing a desert environment through blind faith in their machines (treadmills). Caught in a paradox of walking without traveling, the dance-driven narrative leads performers on a vision quest to seek knowledge of the evolutionary future of their species. http://echo-system.net/