Harvesting Human Energy
Calling all dancers! Ballet, jazz, tango, ballroom, Zumba, breakdance, tap, disco, swing, line, hip-hop, pogo, calypso, square dance, cha cha,
Imagining Water, #1
Introduction to the Series, Imagining Water This post is the first in a year-long series on artists who are making
In Conversation with Food
Last month, I put my food play up onstage in its most fully produced iteration. Even though I had heard
Biophilia and Beauty
Over the last three years, I have sought to develop work in new ways in order to offer an alternative
Recipe for Change
What is your favorite food? Not your special-occasion favorite, but your everyday, go-to favorite thing to eat. Are you picturing
The Nature of Positive
Climate change. Oil spills. Plastic islands. Deforestation. They await us every day in the information age. Images of violent storms
Climate Lens: Birth of a Post-Nation!
Under ordinary circumstances, we’d probably have resisted the temptation to announce ourselves with such a grandiose sub-title—or at least followed it with a self-deprecating question mark. But these are hardly ordinary times, and we’re “going big”—and exclamatory!—to counter the odious enormity that’s suddenly at the nation’s helm. Trump Nation, however, only intensifies our post-national impulse; its real source, dating from well before the last election, is the fact that the most pressing political issue of our times crosses all national boundaries. The accelerating symptoms of ecological devastation and climate chaos are global, planetary—post-national. CLIMATE LENS sprouted on January 5, 2017, when a group of theatremakers and educators gathered in New York for a retreat on the topic “Theatre and Climate Change.” The seeds of CLIMATE LENS were the various projects these people had been involved in, over the past several years, that engaged with environmental issues in general and climate in particular. These included Chantal Bilodeau, Una Chaudhuri, Elizabeth Doud, Lanxing Fu, Derek Goldman, Julia Levine, Roberta
Everything is (Dis)connected
“Art could help us to question our perceptions and relationships to the climate and its changes. Artistic explorations should not
We Are the Climate
The task here is to look at theatre and climate change within the context of the current administration. Yep, that administration. The one that is attempting to eliminate climate consciousness from the national narrative by removing the climate page from the White House website, threatening to slash the EPA by one-third, and green-lighting the Keystone Pipeline project in the face of enormous coordinated dissent. Yep, the one that favors entertainment—heck, the one that is entertainment—but is not at all interested in artworks activating complex, nuanced conversation around current issues, and proposed to eradicate the NEA and the NEH completely from the federal budget. Yep, that administration. Well, shall we start the way we often do? Theatre is a storytelling, community-based phenomenon that manages to survive, if not thrive, on next to nothing and is the perfect means to effectively counter the current administration’s “alternative facts” and erasure, especially in these divisive times…blah, blah climate blah f*cking Trump blah Pruitt EPA zzz blah NEA slashed z zzzz Betsy DeVos zz zzz education
(Art) Work-in-Progress: The Garden as Exhibition Space
Museums and others cultural agents are key interfaces between the government and the public. As a centerpiece of the Age
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