Embracing the Root is a climate-oriented opera which connects musical and dramatic arts, science and climate action together with the aim of inspiring a world-wide movement of care for nature. This is not only for the life of the planet, but also for the life and nature of the human body, brain and mind. Initiative, music, dramatic story and its 21 songs have been created by New York-based composer Carman Moore & Copenhagen-based actress and singer Lotte Arnsbjerg with puppets and scenography created by Danish animation master and theater director Rolf Hansen. Presently in-progress, Embracing the Root is scored for solo vocalist, keyboard, woodwind master, and percussion. It is to be enacted by puppeteers, modern dancers and projected visuals

NYC composer Carman Moore and Danish actress / singer / entrepreneur Lotte Arnsbjerg have collaborated for more than 15 years. The artists' previous masterpiece is the musical performance Girl of Diamond Mountain, an autobiographical performance about Arnsbjerg´'s personal journey from traumatic childhood with abuse to personal growth and liberation from the role of victim. The performance found its full justification by sharing and publishing for countless audiences in both the US and DK. The performance has toured for several periods in the US and has been translated into Danish at the request of psychologist Kuno Sørensen of Save the Children. The Danish version The Girl Under the Water has been realized with support from the Sacrifice Foundation, and the performance has played for enthusiastic audiences through several periods in Copenhagen and other cities in Denmark.. It is also available as a filmed version in Danish and English. In the wake of GODM, Arnsbjerg & Moore developed the Transformation Festival (2016-2019) in NYC, KBH, SF. Then the independent institution The Art of Transformation based in Copenhagen. Arnsbjerg & Moore now focuses all their creative works and entrepreneurs into Embracing the Root Community, based on and inspired by Embracing the Root Performance work.

This presentation of ETR highlights is presented with support from the Danish Consulate General and Private American Individuals.