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As IceLab Leipzig we want to set a sign for climate protection with a photo and video project.
With Contemporary Dance and improvisation on ice and in the landscape around Leipzig, in Spring time 2021 we want to raise awareness to the aftermaths of the climatic changes in front of our door. We will concentrate on micro changes which have a high impact on the global climate change.

The project needs to happen in Spring time, because:

• nevertheless the search for nature ice never stops
• the success of the project is a sign of hope for us and our young dancers - socially as well as financially!
• still in 2021 we agree: #fighteverycrisis

The project's goal is to select about 25 photographs, which capture the need for climate protection from our dance perspective. Additionally, moving pictures will form into video sequences.
The process will allow scientific facts and emotional arguments to protects the nature.

In those challenging times we want to give the ice, dance, the human and nature an expression. Pictures can tell more than words sometimes as we realized during one of our last trips. Vivi standing with her skates in her hands barfeet in the ice-cold water - the picture did have more attention then we originally anticipated.

Our target group are humans, which are sustainable thinking art-makers themselves or art-loving environmental activists :-)

• Dance on and with the ice has a unique potential to make the people aware of the rising temperatures and the following melting of the big ice caps.
• The Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig became aware of the funding action and the project and is interested in a cooperation for the exhibition "Schnee von gestern"
• The CO₂ emissioned by the project will be compensated with a sponsorship of a tree ("Baumstarke Stadt" Leipzig)
• Our pictures and all print media will be printed on recycled paper
• The result will be a multi-media exhibition
• The IceLab Leipzig is unique for its projects in the connection of figure skating, contemporary dance and current global topics.
• Give young artists a perspective for 2021!
• The project shows the supporters and the audience an option to stay active and to grow common goals together
• The publication will be possible pandemic-conform

Smallest contributions can go to the simplest things:

• hot tea and coffee on tour
• bananas and cookies for the break
• a few kilometers with the carsharing car
• a parking ticket
• an online ad on social media for the publication
• picture print and frames
• rewards :)
• costs for the crowdfunding platform (7%)

Medium contributions can move all different things:

• stress-free, concentrated working, because we don't have to get busy with other income options all the time
• costume maker
• photographers and film-makers
• picture prints on bigger formats
• the rent for the exhibition-room
• financing a platform, which would take over a digital publication
• bigger data medium for high-quality documentation (e.g. harddrive)
• online-talk about our work, art and climate protection

Main contributions will help:

• to pay the honorar of the dancers and project-leaders
• drives with Teilauto (carsharing in Leipzig)

With our project we want to give our dancers a perspective. Especially our studying members are challenged by the hard Corona-safety rules in Leipzig and Saxony, Germany.
Many side-jobs vanished, the financial situation is critical. All finances, which are not needed for logistics, will be spent to 100% on honorars.

In average we are on tour for 4 hours, before we have to go back to warm up. During the trip we drive around 30k. The rent of a carsharing-car costs:
4 hours time price: about 11,- €
30k kilometer price: about 9,- €
Approximately we will need around 10 tours, to gather good footage and movement-material.
Total: about 200,- €