Sea Change Within Us by Karin Stevens Dance, is a sixty-minute performance that addresses local Washington State water issues and the consequences of climate change, using the voices of real people we interviewed, combined with moving rigid structures of water images by dancing human bodies.
Eight dancers move four large panels into dynamic configurations to explore themes such as rivers and dams, endangered wild salmon and Southern Resident Orca, melting ice, sea-level rise, flooding, migration, injustices to Indigenous fishing rights, divisive politics, and the complexities of human dis/re/connection. Amid these turbulent thematic layers, grief is embodied in the âRivers, Dams, Salmon, Orcaâ section through the actual cries of mother orca Tahlequah. A call to collective awareness emerges in the section âDescending Pressure,â echoing the repeated phrase of a climate activist-artist: âOur bodies are a source of wisdom.â
The performance encourages a deepening of our relationship with ecosystems, offering moments of contemplation and beauty, even as it confronts difficult content, to support the felt urgency of our ecological and social crises.
Program
Showing #1
11:30 am | Doors open
Noonâ1 pm | Performance
1:30 pm | Doors close
Showing #2
4 pm | Doors open
4:30â5:30 pm | Performance
6 pm | Doors close
Since 2009, Karin Stevens Dance has produced over twenty-five concerts and dance-activism community events, toured inter/nationally and collaborated with award winning composers and music groups. Karin Stevens Dance captures the breadth of the moving human experience through diverse performance works that investigate the complex layers of our cultural spaces, time, and relationship to Earth and the spiritual.
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