Acting for Climate has been facilitating workshops since 2015: they played a crucial role in creating and forming the company, its practices and core values.
The foundation of the workshops rest in the exploration of our relationship to nature. From the separating facts of climate change and biodiversity loss, to the opening up of our senses to an alive world around us. There is so much to see, hear, touch, smell, and taste. There is so much out there to familiarize with again. There is questions about the future of humankind that needs to be addressed, there is distress. In our workshops, we dive into these questions from another perspective, a perspective we have been pursuing all of our lives, the artistic perspective. As circus artists, dancers and performers, we want to invite in all the creativity we can find in solving and thinking about climate and nature.
The workshop is the place where we share this knowledge, and at the same time build a community around our ideas and practices. The community aspect is an important part of our company, and the workshops we have facilitated through the years has helped us find each other across borders, creating a network of people thinking in these patterns.
What we create and offer
The Greenhouse Network
The Greenhouse Network is an international community of artists initiated and led by Acting for Climate. The project is funded by the Nordic Culture Short-Term Network Funding. The project management and production has been led by Frøydis Dahlø.
The goal is to dive deeper into artistic research, develop our artistic skills and integrate environmental issues in our work. The project also functions as a capacity building project for the participants, sharing Acting for Climate methods while bringing in each artist’s talent and perspective. During the first launch of the Greenhouse Project (2021-2022) we have gathered 15 artists from Northern Europe for a series of 8 workshops ranging from 3 to 14 days. In the workshops we explore a wide range of topics such as climate psychology, the anthropocentric view, norm critics, oppression theory, quantum social change, utopias, artivism, environmental ethics, and how to embody these and integrate them in our art. Working with group acrobatics, mask theater, theater techniques, dance, site specific performances in nature, we develop our artistic skills, while integrating these topics.
Team-building in Scandinavia and Europe
We have over 10 years of experience in creating workshops for both artists and companies. We offer workshops which focus on team-building and collaborations. Our artists are educated in various circus disciplines such as aerial acrobatics, group acrobatics, dance and physical theater. We offer a day where we showcase some of our art and invite professionals to research new ways of collaborating. We offer some challenges, exercises in interaction and communication were we play and build on each others’ ideas.