The sailing circus performance “Ripples” set sail across the Baltic sea to inspire people to act for a more sustainable future. Combining performing arts and environmental activism, we set sail for hope, for action and for change.
“If action triggers action - can our art create a ripple effect for climate action that can spread across the sea?”
Performing Acting for Climate (NO) tours the Baltic Sea in the summer of 2022, in collaboration with Festival Norpas (FI) and Hawila Project (DK). Radically challenging the sustainability standards of the performing arts industry, “Ripples” is toured with the sailship Swallow. The two masted wooden sail ship from 1926, acts both as stage for the performance, home, and means of transport - Ripples is literally fueled by the wind, and the artists sail both day and night between the harbors.
With extreme acrobatics all the way up to the top of the 20 meters high masts, the ship as stage, a world-class international team of artists, and a soundscape blending in voices of climate activists all around the world, Ripples is a one of a kind performance.
The seed of Acting for Climate was planted in Norway in 2014, with the dream and the goal of using artistic expression to inspire action for a sustainable future. “Ripples” is the latest creation of the company, currently strengthening and expanding its network of people, artists and activists that nurture collaboration for sustainability. Their first sailing performance, Into the Water, was among other featured in National Geographics, and reached thousands of audiences in the harbors and millions online.
The performance “Ripples” is directed by Hanne Friis, for whom the project combines high quality performing arts with a real action against the climate crisis. Seven artists alternate contemporary circus, physical theatre, dance, music and storytelling to convey a narrative of hope. Played site-specific on the boat, “Ripples” is an absorbing performance whose aim is to engage minds while entertaining eyes.
The performance is a voyage into the future, into the hopes of a new generation who feels truly connected to nature and to what being an artist means. Artistic expression is a powerful tool to empower society, to embody ecological grief and hope for the future within the ship’s magnificent framework. “Ripples” reaches out to people and creates space to reflect.
Acting for Climate questions the values of our society, inspiring curiosity and discussions, embodies the change that can be achieved in society, starting with sustainable touring.
The project is funded by the European Union | Erasmus + programme, KONE Foundation, Nordic Culture Point and the Norwegian Culture Fund
Link to the website
https://www.actingforclimate.com/ripples
Working group and performers
Director: Hanne Trap Friis
Starring: Abigael Rydtun Winsvold, Emma Langmoen, Heidi Miikki, Lucie Piot, Ole Skovgård Dampe, Marie Binda, Max Behrendt
Project leaders: Abigael Winsvold & Emma Langmoen
In collaboration with Hawila Project & Festival Norpas
Producers Team Federica Parise, Ronja Tammenpää, Irina Pleva, Ania Lewandowska
Music by Annelie Nederberg
Costumes by Michiel Tange van Leeuwen
Rigging design by Matt Horton
Special thanks to our volunteer tour manager Isabella de Judicibus and to all the volunteers!
World premiere
4.8.2022 klo 17 Rantatie 1, 25900 Taalintehdas