The Resonant Heart - Forest Living Room

The Resonant Heart is a Melbourne-based collective of CALD and BIPOC women and female-identifying artists from around the globe. Championing diverse perspectives, the artists unite to create multidisciplinary work that celebrates the intimate knowledge of the heart.

In their latest creation, Forest Living Room , the collective presents a modern ancestral ode to exiles and new beginnings, love and grief, and the persistent pull toward rebirth – tracing the connection between the human spirit, the natural world, and the many forms of life within it.

Seamlessly blending dance, gesture, shadow puppetry, and multilingual poetry, the performance features songs and poems in Farsi, Nuer, Hindi, Bosnian, Serbian, Ladino, and English, accompanied by instruments from Western, Indian, Persian, Turkish, and Greek traditions.

Developed by the collective's artists, the piece draws on each performer's own heritage, treating the work itself as a ritual of belonging. Ancient cultural references sit alongside contemporary performance practice, creating a world that feels at once familiar and mythic.