Environmental Justice Through Movement

​*Accessible for Spanish speakers. Live interpretation available.
Through creative movement and dance-based activities, students will engage with key environmental issues, including global warming, water scarcity, ocean health, species extinction, and melting polar ice caps. Using the body as a tool for inquiry, they will consider questions such as: How can we support the healing of our environment? What actions can individuals and communities take to create positive change? These ideas will be explored through guided movement exercises, games, and storytelling, encouraging students to think critically, move creatively, and engage with the world around them.

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Anna Mayta is a teaching artist, dance improviser, choreographer, and Director of Mayta Fusion Dance. She grew up in Chile and now resides in Hudson, New York. For more than 20 years, she has dedicated her career to teaching, choreographing, and performing. Her educational programs include Spanish Language Through Movement; Fusion Dance, which weaves together African, Bharatanatyam, Flamenco, Latin, and modern dance traditions; Transcending Linguistic Prejudice Through Movement; and her newest initiative, Environmental Justice Through Movement. This innovative program is inspired by her original environmental choreography, We Are Organic with the World. Anna is excited to share this work at the Stage the Change Conference.

Mayta Fusion Dance Company, (Hudson Valley, NY) weaves multicultural forms of movement together to foster our global narratives, and shines a spotlight on our universal humanity - demonstrating the diversity of the world.  The company offers performances, classes, choreography and project based collaboration.

Mayta Fusion Dance Company's mission is to use dance as a powerful tool to bring awareness of our oneness, our connectedness, our human stories, our history, our cultures, our equality as well as the beauty of humanity and the world.
www.maytafusiondance.org
Stage the Change is co-sponsored by Stage the Change, Inc.
The Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and Hauppauge Public Schools.
Stage the Change programs are made possible with funds from the
Arts Reach Fund at The New York Community Trust, Long Island; the Long Island Unitarian Universalist Fund at New York Community Trust; and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the
​Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
This work is supported by Long Island Grants for the Arts through funds provided by the office of the Governor and the
New York State Legislature, and administered by The Huntington Arts Council. 
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