BRAVO!! Last night's "Water Is Rising" performance was a series of contrasts. Concerned that climate change will bring an end to their beautiful Islands, a troupe of Tuvala, Tokelua and Kiribati performers entered the darkened theater singing and drumming down the isles to take the audience on a journey. The lights came on revealing women and men dressed in grass skirts, and beautiful colorful costumes .
Once they took the stage, these singer, dancers and musicians strummed at my heartstrings, touched my soul and educated me all at the same time. The performances, accompanying photo slides and written translations of their songs, were beautiful, sad, inspiring, mesmerizing, haunting, and feet stomping, lap slapping awesome to say the least. What a wonderful way to put human faces to such an important issue.
Witnessing their culture through song and dance, and receiving their message about how global warming and climate change, are not only threatening their daily lives and culture, but their very land which is vanishing beneath the waves, was moving. Their pleas to take care of them, stop dumping trash in the ocean, and do all we can to help put an end to man-caused climate change was sobering.
I took my children 16, 10, and 7 to this performance and they all LOVED it. I appreciate and applaud UAPresents for supporting this important effort and bringing Water Is Rising to Arizona so that my children and I could have such a wonderful and enlightening experience. read more