Artists Climate Collective will be collaborating with Kara Kormarnitsky and other local Utah artists to create a new dance film, Lake Bodies to be presented in the summer of 2024.
The 10-minute screendance accompanied by the poetry of the Lake Words Collective addresses the water crisis of Great Salt Lake in Utah. The film will explore the experience of climate grief and how it manifests in the body as a heavy weight. Shrouded in black cloth, the dancer is tangibly tied to the ecosystem in every step of their mourning process as they walk through the Bear River watershed towards Great Salt Lake.
The poetry describes the history of the landscape and the trauma that has been passed down through violent and extractive activities. It recognizes how human actions have the potential to hurt but also to heal and invites us to discover a perspective of awe, connection, and love at the center of our relationship with Great Salt Lake.
With movement, presence, and deep listening, the dancer transforms that weight into buoyancy supported by the vitality of our sacred lake. The aim of this screendance is to address the sense of hopelessness that many people are feeling in regard to Great Salt Lake’s future and climate change in general. We need action to make change, and that action needs to come from a place of immense love if we hope for it to be sustainable for our communities. Building new things will not solve this problem, it is only in the clearing away of dams, diversions, false binaries, and extractive mindsets that the natural abundance of Great Salt Lake will flow.
To support the fundraising efforts for this project, Artists Climate Collective has designed t-shirts and sweaters as a gift for donors. The clothing is made from recycled materials and printed by a local designer in the Salt Lake area.
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