"Glacier" returns to Atlas Performing Arts Center for Intersections festival's 10th anniversary. (Robert Cannon/Robert Cannon)
By Stephanie Williams
How do you get people interested in climate change? Diana Movius figured ballet could do the trick.
The D.C. policy analyst has spoken about climate change at summits around the world...  So, in 2015, Movius recruited several dancers and debuted one of her most ambitious works to date, “Glacier,” ... “The goal of [‘Glacier’] is to identify and communicate what climate change feels like."
For 45 minutes, the Atlas stage will once again transform into chilling Arctic terrain for “Glacier.” As time passes, the pristine ice begins to crack and melt away, ...
D.C. artist Robin Bell, known for the politically charged projections he’s beamed onto the Trump International Hotel, provides a custom backdrop of polar regions and ice for “Glacier”...
Movius will present another original dance production, “Rite of Spring, Crash of Fall,” during her program Thursday at Atlas. Here, Movius shifts her focus from global warming to another hot-button topic — the financial crisis of 2008. The piece debuted in October at the Kennedy Center..
“The idea is that there is always a sacrifice in ‘Rite of Spring,’ ” says Movius, referring to the original ballet’s storyline involving pagan sacrifice.