Noxious gas prompts dance on global warming | Entertainment | Entertainment | thedaily.com.au
It was while living in Hong Kong that world-renowned Australian choreographer Maggi Sietsma first began to think about global warming.
While aware of the issue before then, it was during her two-year sabbatical overseas that she was forced to question her own accountability.
At the time, smog in Hong Kong had become so bad that residents were being forced to buy fresh air machines to keep the air inside their apartments pure.
However, Ms Sietsma soon realised the machine she had purchased was being manufactured just down the road from her in a factory that itself was spewing noxious gases.
It was this epiphany that led her to create On Thin Ice - the first Australian dance performance piece to tackle the heady issue of global warming.
Speaking from her Brisbane home, Ms Sietsma said she was looking forward to bringing the performance to the Sunshine Coast on Wednesday.
“When I decided to do a work on global warming from an artistic perspective, I decided to have a look and do some research,” she said.
“I ended up realising how naive I've been. One of the things I discovered was that the Americans had done research into homeland security.
“And the report said that in 50 years' time, what would be of more threat to their homeland than terrorism was actually displacement of people because of water rising because of global warming.”
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On Thin Ice will mark Ms Sietsma's final production with the company, citing a cut in government funding.
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