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After only two years of postponement Mélange Dance Co.The original, full-length production will be premiered RISE for Mother Earth In partnership with New Orleans Museum of ArtFor three performances that begin on Earth Day
The performances will be held in NOMA’s Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden amphitheater.
In RISE for Mother Earth New Orleans-based Big Easy Award winner, the dance company is aiming to bring the human stories about climate change to life..
RISEThis is part of a collaboration that tells the story of Sharon Lavigne, winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize. Rise St. Jamesin her fight against Formosa Plastics’ invasion of St. James Parish.
Louisiana Sea Grant collaborates RISEThis feature features Grand Isle oral diaries from residents of the last inhabited barrier island on our Gulf Coast. It is a haunting image of beauty and disappearance as sea levels continue rising.
“We are also thrilled to collaborate with Climate Clock, melding art, science, technology, and grassroots organizing to get the world to #ActInTime,” states Alexa Erck Lambert, executive director of Mélange Dance Company, in a press release.
“Dancers are abruptly swept by waves of warning into a tangled twist of fate, entering a warming world at our hands, a world that our oceans can no longer save us from,” the press release states. “Cascades of climate narratives unfold in a series of uniquely moving narrative vignettes which uplift the voices of those on the frontlines of climate crisis, Mother Nature and the scientists that have been warning us for decades, urging us to connect in our shared humanity and shared fate.”
RISE This performance includes a special guest performance by Denise Frazier from Les Cenelles, violinist.
Performances are scheduled for April 22, 24, 26 and 26 at 8 PM at the Sydney-Walda Besthoff Sculpture garden in City Park. The show runs for approximately one hour and thirty minutes, with a brief intermission. Seating is on raised grass, so audience members are encouraged to bring a chair or blanket.
Tickets for general admission cost $30, while tickets for dancers, seniors, veterans, and students are $20. They are available Here.
