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#FinalNotice: S.T.E.A.M. Curriculum Confronting Climate Change

#FinalNotice is a S.T.E.A.M. curriculum and project that invests in dance/performance, mobile technologies, and archival activism to confront climate change, environmental racism, and historical erasure on the Brooklyn Waterfront. Starting in 2019, Danielle Russo Performance Project began partnerships with El Puente, Red Hook Initiative and its affiliate, The Freedom School of the Children’s Defense Fund, and over 60 local non-profit, grassroot, and individual historians, conservationists, environmentalists, and activists in Brooklyn, New York to envision and implement S.T.E.A.M. collaboratories and their faculties for paid Youth Leaders (ages 12-22). Together, we gathered past and living histories, public documents, and growing scientific data to create an interactive portrait of the Southside and Red Hook neighborhoods. In doing so, we prioritized self-authorship and reclaiming narratives—particularly championing the Youth Leaders, many of whom are Black and Brown adolescents whose lived experiences continue to be directly impacted by the systemic racism investigated in our collective research. The culminating result was a mobile map app freely available in English and Spanish languages, centering and amplifying the voices of local youth and community allies, and seeking to reimagine “archive” as a collaboratively generated, living record where science, history, personal storytelling, and activism meet. Next, field work in the floodplain lent to site-specific art and performance-making exercises, in which both youth and faculty-led projects cued the genfenced data research, diverse archives, community resources, and community interviews on the map app, activating audience members’ phone screens and headphones as per location. #FinalNotice coalesces action research methodologies with S.T.E.A.M. and embodied praxes that are genuinely integrated and dually learner and subject-centered, and fosters both youth and community-led artistry and advocacy.

Danielle Russo

Danielle Russo (she/her; US) is a choreographer and performer, artivist and community organizer, and scholarly educator working in aesthetics, philosophies, and thresholds of experimental dance and performance on the continuum of intermedia and socially engaged artwork. Since founding Danielle Russo Performance Project (DRPP) in 2010, she has been producing large-scale performances and experiential artwork in public spaces, for public audiences, and frequently, through public collaborations. As a choreographer, she has been presented nationally at the American Dance Festival, Detroit Institute of Arts, Jacob’s Pillow, Lincoln Center for Performing Arts at Damrosch Park, The Oculus at the World Trade Center, and The Yard; and internationally in Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Mexico, Panama, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and Trinidad and Tobago. Residency and fellowship awards have included C.N.N. - Ballet de Lorraine (FR), Danscentrum Jette (BE), Nadine Laboratory for the Contemporary Arts (BE), Independent Artists Initiative WUK (AT), Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation (US), LEIMAY (US), Mana Contemporary (US), Performing Arts Forum (FR), and Springboard Danse Montréal (CA), among others. She is a multi-year grant recipient of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Carnegie, Dance/NYC, Harkness Foundation for Dance, One Brooklyn Fund, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Additional highlights include Armory Arts Week, Julian Schnabel’s Casa del Popolo, Governors Island, HERE Arts Center, The High Line Nine, La MaMA (fabNYC), LMCC River to River with Amy and Jennifer Khoshbin, Moynihan Station, Place des Arts, and Solange Knowles’s Saint Heron, to name a few. Outside of her own devising, Russo danced with The Metropolitan Opera for several seasons. As an educator, she is Assistant Professor of the Practice of Dance & Critical Dance Studies in the Department of Performing & Media Arts at Cornell University. Previously, she was faculty at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, CUNY Queens College, University of Iowa, and The Joffrey Ballet School BFA and Professional Divisions.

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