Fascinating union between dance and science

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allet dancers are using their art to illustrate to people that climate change is an issue they can’t ignore.

Famed dancer and choreographer, Karole Armitage, explained over the phone when discussing climate change, "They’ve been giving the facts for more than 25 years and it hasn’t changed behavior."

Armitage’s currently staging a site-specific dance performance at New York's sprawling American Museum of Natural History, a work that is not-so-subtly aimed at raising awareness of our planet's shifting reality.

Titled "On the Nature of Things," the work was created in collaboration with Stanford University biologist and MacArthur Genius Paul Ehrlich, perhaps better known to mainstream audiences as the man who wrote The Population Bomb.

A Huffington Post arts and culture story - “This Dance Project Is Out To Prove Climate Change Is An Issue We Can't Ignore” – explains this unusual union between dance and science.