Reflection

Our work and creative process were inspired by the urgency and importance of addressing climate change. We wanted to use our talents to raise awareness about the impact of climate change on our planet. Our interest in the performing arts comes from the diverse cultures we all belong to as a group; the benefits and confidence stage performance bring to individuals and audiences further boosts our creative process endlessly, while the process of creating our dance performance on climate change awareness raised emotions of consciousness in most of us. We felt a sense of responsibility to use our most available resources to act and raise awareness against climate change, just like the hero we celebrated. The audience of our performance should not just be entertained but rather take it from our energetic performance to use the same energy and enthusiasm to create solutions to the current climate crisis; our moves should remain in the minds of every viewer to use the same energy in our dance to act quickly. The efforts of Vanessa Nakate as a young climate hero encourages us as young people to bring change to this crisis.