The Bond you Hold

PERFORMANCE, PROJECTIONS (2016)
DIRECTOR

A performance overlaid with pattern projections embodying the dynamic relation between climate and humans, in a world beyond 2oC warming.

First performed in Lisboa, Portugal 2015

Direction Diego Galafassi and María Heras. Choreography Maria Magdalona Beky Winnerstram (Långsjö Teater) and Erin Fowler. Music composed by Katherine Young, USA. Scientific direction David Tàbara and Kasper Kok. Make-up Flora Velloso. Art projections Tone Bjordam and Marten Scheffer’s collaboration “Critical Transitions”.  Film Diego Galafassi. Additional footage Nick Graalman. Additional projections Diego Galafassi, Felix Pharand-Deschenes in “Climate Change – The State of The Science” (IGBP and Globaia production). Additional music Marten Scheffer and Arnin Scheidel. 

High-end climate change

Climate change is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon propelling transformations on ways of thinking about ourselves, our relations to the biosphere and our common futures. We need novel imagery and embodied experiences to find new ways of thinking and acting in relation to climate change.

High-end climate scenarios (futures where we trespass the 2oC warming threshold) are increasingly more likely. But how would that world look like? Arts have an important role to play in creating spaces and experiences that support this exploration.

Art-science 

The Bond You Hold is a theatre performance embodying the dynamic relation between climate and humans, in a world beyond 2oC warming.

It is the result of a compound process that integrates cutting-edge climate change knowledge through a knitted series of collaborations with an international group of climate and social scientists within EU-funded Project Impressions leading to the development of this multi-sensorial physical theatre performance.
Impressions workshops will advance understanding of the implications of high-end climate change and to help decision-makers apply such knowledge within integrated adaptation and mitigation strategies.