Climate Pursuits
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In July 2021 we will be part of Yorkshire Dance’s Climate Encounters Online Festival.

We will share our current research towards a series of productions engaging with the climate crisis. We will also talk about how we have been working through the pandemic, remotely from each other across Wales and from different countries and we will also be asking ourselves how do we work in a climate emergency, and how does our work respond to it?

Throughout our research we have found threads of climate, colonialism and capitalism and we are weaving these together with complex local stories from Wales that intersect with global narratives. These include the relationship between ancient and modern farming and levels of consumption; too much water (eg erosion, flooding, melting) or too little (eg drought, damning, pollution) and Climate denial and conspiracy theories. We will also be sharing our research on Climate and human impact on Cardigan Bay: viewed through geological time, Welsh legends, histories of coastal towns built on English industrial wealth, and current threats to communities like Fairbourne (set to become the first UK place to be decommissioned due to rising sea levels)

We will share our research processes and findings, our on site research explorations, and our possible steps forward.

The second part of the session will be facilitated by Vikram Iyengar, freelance dance artist and choreographer who is based in Kolkata, India (Artistic Director of Ranan, and Founder/Director of Pickle Factory Dance Foundation). This will move into an open discussion with attendees.

To book a place please visit Climate Encounters website