Climate Pursuits R&D

For many months we have been in R&D (research and development) about potential new works related to the climate crisis. Working through the pandemic, remotely from each other, we have asked ourselves, how do we work in a climate emergency, and how does our work respond to it? Some of this early stage work was featured as part of Yorkshire Dance’s event, Climate Encounters, in July 2021, in a conversation facilitated by Vikram Iyengar - sharing our research processes and findings, our site based explorations, and our possible steps forward. 

Threads of climate, colonialism and capitalism are found throughout our multi-stranded research. These are woven together with complex local stories that intersect with global narratives, including:

- The relationship between ancient and modern farming and levels of consumption

- There being too much water (eg erosion, flooding, melting) or too little (eg drought, damning, pollution)

- Climate denial and conspiracy theories

- Sites on the west Wales coast around Cardigan Bay