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ENVIRONMENT: GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE :
DANCE :
PERFORMING ARTS:
This Dance Project is out to Prove Climate Change
Is an Issue We Can't Ignore
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This Dance Project is out to Prove Climate Change
Is an Issue We Can't Ignore
Posted: 03/25/2015 1:58 pm EDT
Updated: 03/26/2015 2:59 pm EDT
The Huffington Post
By Katherine Brooks
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/25/
on-the-nature-of-things_n_6939826.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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I know scientists are frustrated," Karole Armitage, the famed dancer and
choreographer, explained over the phone. "Theyve been giving the facts for
more than 25 years and it hasnt changed behavior."
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Armitage is talking about climate change, and for good reason. She's
currently staging a site-specific dance performance at New York's
sprawling American Museum of Natural History, a work that is not-so-subtly
aimed at raising awareness of our planet's shifting reality. Titled "On
the Nature of Things," the work was created in collaboration with Stanford
University biologist and MacArthur Genius Paul Ehrlich, perhaps better
known to mainstream audiences as the man who wrote The Population Bomb.
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Together, the two icons -- one popularly referred to as a "punk
ballerina," the other a stringent cultural activist who happens to spend
most of his time in laboratories -- hope to demonstrate that the simple
act of presenting scientific facts has done little to change the way
humans interact with their environment. We need a new method of presenting
climate change as an issue we can't ignore, they attest. And that method
should include art.
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In "On the Nature of Things," running in the museum's Milstein Hall of
Ocean Life for three days this week, Armitage provides the choreography
and Ehrlich the poetic narration, subsumed into a musical experience
courtesy of composers like John Luther Adams, Philip Glass, Michael
Gordon, Henryk Gecki, and Arvo Pt. As Armitage explained to HuffPost, the
60-minute performance takes place across the Hall of Ocean Life, involving
over 30 dancers moving in line with Ehrlich's words. Said text is adapted
from Ehrlich's well known essay, "On Closing the Culture Gap."
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"Scientists today believe that such critical information must be
disseminated and quickly acted upon to avoid catastrophe," Ehrlich writes.
"But that is not happening, as indicated by the 'much talk, little action'
status of climate change. The central need is clearly not for more natural
science research (although in many areas it would be very helpful).
Rather, the social sciences and humanities need to be reorganized and
refocused -- 'rebooted' -- to provide better understanding of human
behaviors and how they can be altered."
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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