The climate emergency is increasingly understood as the biggest challenge we face. Artists of all disciplines have been making iconic work in response to this crisis globally for decades, however, dance has not been leading the way.
With this small festival, we ask how dance helps us to move forward, digest science and find solutions? How does it shape hope within this complex problem and or provides us with new experiences, encounters and insight?
How, as dance makers, do we understand the value of our unique offer in the face of this issue?
We’ve been lucky to work with an exceptional group of artists and academics as co-curators to help shape the focus of this week. Together we considered the many responses to an open call-out and were signposted to a plethora of work. We cannot begin to do justice to such a vast topic but hope this is a starting point from which many other events will follow.
More than anything, we want this event to be a tiny part of a global movement for awareness-raising and change.
In the face of such an unfeasibly large and complex problem, we aim to find connection and hope.
