IHRAF 25: Climate Change Action

Friday, December 12th @ 7 pm

Pando

DoubleTake Dance

Dance

Vanessa Martínez de Baños and Ashley Carter - Co- Artistic Directors

Contemporary dance exploring the connection between beings, and how it affects our ability to thrive on Earth. Pando is Latin for spread out, and also is a clonal colony of a single male quaking aspen. An intricate kaleidoscope, using the dancers bodies and timing as a never ending thread based on the quaking aspen forest being a single living organism connected by one massive underground root system. The environment is reaching a point of no return but... we are all one connected entity.

Using the means of contemporary athletic and technical movement set to beautiful music we want to bring awareness to the environment and how our actions have a direct effect on us as we are all one system.

High Water Line

Victoria Z Daily/ Lorenza Bernasconi

Short Play

Fabiola Arias - Director
Victoria Z. Daily - Writer

Fantasy/absurdist comedy where teenage Abby and her mother Elise — stuck in a room together after the ice caps have melted — must either escape or drown. A short climate-change apocalyptic black comedy, maybe impossible to stage. Or maybe not.

Plastick

Henry Alper & Din Klein

Dance/Visual Art piece

Henry Alper - Dancer

Din Klein - Dancer

A dance with plastic.

Nature's Secret

Ongama Mhlontlo

Music and Poetry

Marieke De Koker - Voice

Lamis Shams - Piano

Ongama Mhlontlo - Music and Lyrics

Nature’s Secret is a song cycle exploring serenity, loss, and the cost of corruption on the natural world. The work imagines a future rooted in restorative justice, one where environmental revitalization is intertwined with social healing and a just energy transition. Through Marieke de Koker (voice) and Lamis Shams (piano), With Nature’s Secret, composer Ongama Mhlontlo evokes the beauty of nature and the resilience of communities seeking healing and environmental justice.