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Tree of Life: Premiere

Aranyani, Goddess of forests, is dying. Can a Sage and a Scientist discover how to save her? A spectacular South Asian dance show for children aged 7+.

  • 30th November 2025 - 30th November 2025
  • 11:30 am - 2:00 pm

What do you see when you look at a tree? 

Leaves and twigs and branches? 

Or do you see a living thing 

That moves and sings and dances…? 

 – Emma Carlisle, author, What do you see when you look at a tree? 

Aranyani, Goddess of forests and the wild, is dying. To recover – and for the plants and animals that she supports to thrive – she needs nourishment and balance in the world. It is down to a spiritual Sage and a Scientist – and you, the audience – to discover how to save her. 

Tree of Life is a children’s dance theatre show, suitable for children aged 7+.

The show explores the connection between science and spirituality through the medium of trees and dance. It includes South Asian Bharatanatyam and contemporary Western dance, as well as an ethereal, original music score and spoken word. An after-show workshop also includes some ingenious audience participation using the latest in Micro:bit technology. 

Drawing inspiration from Buddha attaining enlightenment under a Bodhi (fig) tree in India and Newton discovering gravity from an apple tree in the UK, Tree of Life weaves a tale of how these two events lead to a deepening of human understanding of our natural world, spiritually and scientifically. 

Facilities

  • Air conditioned
  • Bar
  • Cloakroom facilities
  • Disabled Accessibility
  • wheelchair access
  • wheelchair accessible

Accessibility Facilities

  • facilities for disabled guests
  • Wheel chair accessible
  • wheelchair access
  • Wheelchair accessible
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Did you know?

The imposing lamppost in the centre of Parker’s Piece bears the words Reality Checkpoint – believed to be a reference to the end of the university ‘bubble’ and the beginning of the real world, aka the rest of the city.