WeCameToDance is an interactive musical by The American Food Tank, one of the most engaged non-profits in food sustainability, agriculture, food policy, and climate change.
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They are presenting WeCameToDance with the purpose of building local engagement and creating thousands of new activists in food and environmental movements at a local grassroots level ahead of COP26.
It is a musical which tells the story of extra-terrestrial life arriving on Earth to warn its inhabitants of a climate crisis that their own planet has experienced.
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While guiding audiences in a fully immersed experience through rhythms, dance, and song, the characters relay a call to action and convey the tragedy of a changing climate, yet a sense of hope percolates through each and every motion, movement, and note.
WeCameToDance are – Sophie Douglas, Emmanuella Damptey and Caitlin Anderson.
Images taken at Camera-Obscura & World of Illusions, Edinburgh.
www.camera-obscura.co.uk