The Climate

The Climate

“The Climate” is the first part of a trilogy addressing relations between dance and ecology. The project researches alternative narratives concerning ecology and its relations to the body, understood as a possible intermediary between modalities of organising life. In what ways can dance function as a laboratory for how we can approach the world differently? Perhaps what is needed is not to regulate life as we know it but to labour for the possibilities of new forms of life. Not climate change but a change of the climate, climate being what all beings, creatures, animate and inanimate share and contribute to. It’s not a matter of commitment to save the world but instead a letting go of established dichotomies between for example nature and culture, work and leisure, intuition and science, human and non-human, subject and object that together have in common to distance and compartmentalise the anthropocentric.
Together with a group of five dancers these and other questions has been folded into practices that aim at shifting or even changing what determines the ecologies of dance, choreography and aesthetic experience - ecologies that contribute to the climate, and ultimately what it means to exist.
“The Climate” is a dance for you and a dancing together, a little bit of hope that things can be otherwise.

With and by: Liza Baliasnaja, Sidney Barnes, Misha Downey, Sara Ludi, Moya Michels, Mårten Spångberg
Assistent: Marika Troili

Supported by The Norwegian Art Council, The Swedish Art Council and PAF
Co-produced by: Stamsund International Theatrefestival