Writing Translated into Dance
I am thrilled that Stephen Clapp (Dance Box Theater) chose an excerpt from an essay I wrote about my personal experience with flooding to incorporate into his MFA dance thesis at George Washington University. He performed it to a standing ovation. It was cool to hear my words mixed in with Gore's and Obama's! And touching to see how my crisis moments were translated into someone else's body movements (my section starts at the 37 min. mark).
http://www.danceboxtheater.org/projec...
Windswept "explores the divisive dialogue around climate change, its causes and effects, and potential courses of action to mitigate its impacts. Through dramatic choreography, spoken word, insightful narrative and a unique, original music score, Windswept addresses the possibility that we may be in the midst of an anthropocene extinction."
Put simply, it tackles the issue of global warming and is an important contribution to the climate change dialog.
My essay appears in full in Facing the Change: Personal Encounters with Global Warming.
http://www.danceboxtheater.org/projec...
Windswept "explores the divisive dialogue around climate change, its causes and effects, and potential courses of action to mitigate its impacts. Through dramatic choreography, spoken word, insightful narrative and a unique, original music score, Windswept addresses the possibility that we may be in the midst of an anthropocene extinction."
Put simply, it tackles the issue of global warming and is an important contribution to the climate change dialog.
My essay appears in full in Facing the Change: Personal Encounters with Global Warming.
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Thanks for taking the time to view it and write such a wonderful comment, Mary! I'll pass the words along to Stephen. He is hoping to take this on a national tour, so hopefully some of those politicians will see it. It should be mandatory :-).
This is really pretty neat, Tara! I agree with Mary about the narrator's reading, but I have to also say she had some tremendous material to work with. Congratulations.
Thanks, Jackson, coming from you, that means a lot. :-)
It's impressive to see and hear his passion for bringing attention to the disasters of global warming expressed so artistically.
Wouldn't it be great to send this to all our state representatives?
Tara, thanks for posting this. Your excerpt was perfect for inclusion. The essay's intimate voice and your vulnerabilty as a single mother with a young son struggling stave off the storm's floodwaters throughout the night were powerful. The video's narrator gave a remarkable reading. .
Kudos to Stephen!