When Chloe Leong goes on tour with her Sydney Dance Company colleagues, the environmental impact of her work is always close to the front of her mind. “I believe art is about touching on the now and this is a massive topic in the world,” she says. “Everything we have now is not going to be what we have tomorrow.”
Leong has just come off a five-week regional tour of Australia, and before that, four weeks in France. “We’re travelling with KeepCups and water bottles and taking our own shampoo and soap so we don’t use single-use items,” she says. “We book apartments and turn off the aircon or heating and we cook our own meals. We’re reducing waste by sharing a suitcase packed with olive or coconut oil, salt and pepper and breakfast cereals so we don’t have to throw it out and buy it all again in the next town.”
