It's a bit of a long and beautiful story, so here's goes my attempt at a summary:

As a part of the Collective Composition Lab in the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in 2019, I engaged in deep creative inquiry, exaltation, and collaboration with dancers, choreographers, and composers. The Banff Centre holds many different programs at the same time. When I was there, there was a huge jazz program, a dramaturgy in dance program with Liz Lerman, and some other non-artistic conferences. One such program/conference was a rather esteemed group of people meeting to discuss climate change. Because of serendipity, my own curiosity and the curiosity of the scientists towards an artist like me, I ended up being able to bring a 'performance' to them at their end of the week gala/show/celebration. They didn't know what it would be.

In the composition lab we had focused a good deal on instant composition, on spontaneous narrative creation, on the random orderly chaos of a fully lived moment in life (e.g., really good group improv). So, I brought improvisation to their esoteric and big and funny and strange scientific endeavours.

Afterwards, a few of the distinguished men and women of science offered me huge thanks, two women even saying they had never liked or understood or even respected dance before this moment. It was beautiful. I was really sleep deprived and had a flight to catch so I left before I could really talk to the audience, but the standing O from the scientists and economists and the fleeting nature of this awesome moment is one of my favorite things I've ever done and been a part of.