Two dancers respond, in performance, to a tree over one hundred years old. It is scarred with human carvings of declarations of love, requires regular medical care, and needs ample space. Two dancers research the origins, valences, and trappings of the term “tree hugger,” feeling into the problematics of loving a tree as if we are merged with it, as well as the problematics of loving a tree as if it is utterly separate from us. Two dancers who have been friends for over twenty years will dig into the choreography of embrace as a method of caring, clinging, holding, objectifying, and loving. Two dancers compete against their own limits to investigate “survivalism” as a trending way of confronting nature, asking us to consider how interactions with the nonhuman mimic relations between humans as failed attempts to understand. Do we need to hold on or let go? What is ethical connection on stolen land?