The 7th Assessment
The 7th Assessment is a history of climate change in seven dance parties.
A collaboration with David Finnigan, playwright and climate risk consultant, who has been making work exploring environmental change for over 20 years. It is based on the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment report and the development of climate science, AND the art of DJing over the last century, staged as an 8-hour experience and dance party.
Taking place in a theatre over one full day, the audience might dance, they might watch, they might leave and come back, or stay for the entire show
Core collaborators: David Finnigan (Writer and co-creator)Role: Dramaturg and co-creatorLocation: GlobalCommissioner: Development supported by The Public (US) ArtForm: Durational Theatre Show
Credit: Photograph by Sarah Walker
Epic Climate Party
Every six years, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) release a report on the state of the Earth’s climate. In 2028, the IPCC will release its Seventh Assessment. And for the first time, this report will be adapted for the stage.
Over 3,600 pages long, written by more than 1,000 scientists, the IPCC Assessment Report is the outcome of the biggest scientific undertaking in history – an epic snapshot of a planet in the midst of transformation.
Like the Mahābārata or The Epic of Gilgamesh for a secular scientific era, the IPCC report contains an entire cosmology. A complete depiction of how this world came to be, and where it’s going.
And like any epic poem containing the universe, the best way to share the IPCC report is through storytelling, music and dance.
This show show is not a cautionary tale, nor self-flagulation, nor does it tell us how we stop climate change. Instead it explores how we can live together through the climate change era. How we can be good humans, citizens and ancestors in a changing world.
The Seventh Assessment is a long-form theatrical adaptation of the IPCC Seventh Assessment report, staged as an 8-hour dance party. This is the true secret history of the world we live in and how we got here. A history lesson wrapped in a party - looking forward to how we can survive and thrive .