The gifts of mortality and movement, from “Notes From America”

This Is Uncomfortable

Marketplace

News, Business

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re sharing an episode of another podcast we think you’ll love. “Notes From America With Kai Wright” is a show from WNYC Studios about the unfinished business of our history, and its grip on our future. In this episode, Wright interviews choreographer Bill T. Jones about his groundbreaking dance performance “Still/Here.” Jones shares his reflections on creating such an essential piece of performance art amid the AIDS epidemic and while grieving his own partner, what he learned from spending time with the “survivors” who inspired it, and how “Still/Here” has evolved for a new generation of audiences.

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive
0:03.4	It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist,
0:08.3	I was flying for the Navy.
0:09.7	Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
0:14.4	It was the cold war, and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.
0:18.6	Today, though, there's another threat out there, climate change.
0:22.5	This could be the warmest year on record.
0:24.6	Climate change is here.
0:25.7	Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.
0:29.5	And while the threat seems new,
0:31.6	the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.
0:35.9	I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.
0:44.7	This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis
0:47.5	to see how the military is preparing for the threat.
0:51.0	Listen to how we survive,
0:52.3	wherever you get your podcasts.
0:55.0	Hi everyone, I'm Alice Wilder, producer for this is uncomfortable.
0:59.0	Rima's out this week, so we want to share something a little different.
1:02.0	An episode of Notes from America with Kai Wright. this week, so we want to share something a little different.
1:02.6	An episode of Notes From America with Kai Wright,
1:05.2	a show from WNYC Studios about the unfinished business of our history
1:09.2	and its grip on our future.
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