Parents – The CSPA

New Zealand's Soul Speed Activist Theatre and Dance Troupe

Dancing for Dolphins

We can’t see dolphins swimming under the water, getting caught in nets, BUT we can see dancers imitating dolphins getting caught.

Mauiâ€™s Dolphins are endangered dolphins found in New Zealand’s waters: There are only about 110 Mauiâ€™s Dolphins left. The most significant dangers are entanglement in fishing nets and by-catch.

Read here to see how this group of activists found a powerful way to bring attention to an additional danger disrupting the dolphinâ€™s life: invasive research methods.

Most of the activists are parents, and they want their children to grow up with the dolphins in their shared future of humans, nonhumans and the land.Â To protest the research actions, they created a dance.

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When artists fail to read the small print

Caleb Klaces makes a point in his review of Marcel Therouxâ€™s new novel, Far North, on the main RSA Arts & Ecology website: the moment when Theroux starts to try and create a plausible scientific scenario for the catastrophic future in which his novel is set is the point where you start going, â€œUmm. Really?â€

It takes a great writer to be able to incorporate research into a novel. Theroux opts to include a character explaining how we got into this mess:

The planet had heated up. They turned off smokestacks and stopped flying. Some, like my [Makepeaceâ€™s] parents, altered the way they lived. Factories were shut down [â€¦] As it turned out, the smoke from all the furnaces had been working like a sunshade, keeping the world a few degrees cooler than it would have been otherwise. He said that in trying to do the right thing, we had sawed off the branch we were sitting on. The droughts and storms that came in the years after put in motion all the things that followed.

See? Itâ€™s not really quite like that, is it?

Read the review here.

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Dancers for Dolphins

When artists fail to read the small print