producer sheraz sadiq takes us backstage with odc dance and a piece called "dead reckoning." nelson: ready. 1, 2, 3. "dead reckoning" is a dance piece that i created in 2014, and it's fundamentally about human beings' relationship to the natural world. we're gonna do the first section right now. my name is kt nelson, and i'm co-artistic director of odc. we're a dance company in san francisco. okay, so can you -- thwup! get around him? thwup! yeearrrn! oh, rah, yes! yes. okay? with this thing called climate change, we have scientific evidence, we have statistical analysis. i think maybe the missing ingredient is our emotional world. dance, because it is human beings onstage in a world, can help us embody the meaning of climate change. [ sinister music plays ] the term "dead reckoning" is navigational. it refers to when you don't have your regular points of reference -- the stars. where we are with climate change is that we are navigating blindly right now. i think we're in the middle of dead reckoning. in the dance, there is this lime-green snow, or confetti, that first starts

but first, we start with the company odc dance and a piece that tackles science and the environment.act of climate change, from rising sea levels to rising temperatures, is often expressed through charts and data. it's an appeal made more to the intellect and less so to the heart, but one bay area choreographer wants artists to help audiences