cover image: Connecting the Dots: - USING DANCE TO COMMUNICATE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

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Connecting the Dots: - USING DANCE TO COMMUNICATE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

14 Mar 2024

what we were developing as improv sessions of the Sable Island Dance Project in artists; this sort of way of exploring and changing and following fall 2024! through with an idea and then changing the impulse and seeing where that leads,” she recalls. [...] That connection like a lantern, guided students through the scene as another started inspired her to later turn her master’s degree thesis in atmospheric weaving a narrative: “Once upon a time in M’ikma’ki...” The layout physics, which was about phytoplankton and climate feedback of the debris and the animation of pieces conveyed the motion of cycles in the ocean, into a dance. [...] More recently, Phinney Langley is developing a workshop titled "It was very powerful,” says Phinney Langley, one of the creative Improvisation for Scientists and Researchers, drawing on the collaborators for the project. [...] “Bringing the issues to the education stage or studio or gallery reaches a new, perhaps broader audience … not through facts and graphs but through an experience they can connect with, something that resonates, brings up memories, That mindfulness and curiosity was exactly what the Sable Island connections and ideas for them.” Institute and Mocean Dance aimed to cultivate with the Sable Ocean Danc. [...] Waves and wind carry debris ashore, scattering it among white sand dunes and tufts of green beach grass – and making movement a natural way to communicate the issue of ocean plastics to the public.
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