Performances
Theatre and Dance Students will join together for Climate Change Theatre Action, an evening of immersive theatrical performance taking over UW-Madison’s Science Hall! The performance is the culmination Professor Micha Espinosa’s course THEA360: Performance in Practice, where undergraduate students studied the intersections of climate activism and ecological performance to envision a new iteration of CCTA on UW’s Campus. The event, which takes place April 23rd, is the closing headliner performance for Earthfest 2026, a campus wide celebration through the Nelson Institute for Sustainability.
Partnered with the department of Dance, the student performers will perform seven of these pieces: Homo Sapiens, Pond Life, Single Use, Snowflake’s Special, Listen to Vanessa Nakate, Earth Duet, and Not Because We’re Good. Audience members will follow artists in and out of the rooms of Science Hall as we take over the building. The performance will culminate in a panel with UW-Madison scientists Dr. Ankur Desai, Dr. Jessica Hua, and Dr. Jonathan Patz on climate change and performance.
