Spotlight: "Water is Rising Music and Dance Amid Climate Change"
Latest press about the event co-sponsored by UCLA's Center for Intercultural Performance, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, & Foundation for World Arts.
On Saturday, October 15th "Water is Rising" premiered at UCLA's Royce Hall. Performance and purpose collided in a powerful gala concert that illuminated the plight of the Pacific Islands. Thirty-six dancers and musicians expressed their deep connection to nature and their ancestral past through multi-part harmonies, poetry, and gracious movement cascading over dynamic rhythms inspiring us all to be better stewards of our shared planet.
Read coverage of the event:
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/the-way-they-move/Content?oid=3168621
http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/
http://uprisingradio.org/home/2011/10/12/water-is-rising-music-and-dance-amid-climate-change/
http://international.ucla.edu/asia/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9080
http://www.healthebay.org/event/science-and-art-climate-change-dialogue-nations
Listen to coverage from Living On Earth (Public Radio International). To read a transcript of the broadcast click here.
Published: Monday, October 17, 2011
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