Dance & Climate Change

The climate emergency is real and overwhelming. To help us grapple with life in the anthropocene, we deploy dance to awaken the senses to atmospheric change, to confront our climate grief, to build community around climate resilience and to facilitate action. We have to stop thinking of climate change as only ​happening “out there,” as in the melting Arctic or the burning Amazon, but as a phenomenon that is drastically changing our own habitats wherever we live. Ecokinetics, a dance practice that focuses on the relationship between human movers and ecological systems, is our way of entering this reckoning. We do this through residencies, site activations and climate performances.