, in which she dangles bare hand in subzero temperatures above frozen caverns, often with no safety net or rope.producing a short documentary film with director Trixie Pacis, which aims to play in the festival circuit this fall before becoming available online early next year.
Galitzky is also producing a short documentary film with director Trixie Pacis, which aims to play in the festival circuit this fall.As a performance artist, I think the lines and the angles, that’s part of the visual art of it. I’m going to wear what’s going to keep me safe, and relatively comfortable, but it’s also going to create shapes or angles or lines that will be visually intriguing. But also a way to show respect to these environments.
The glaciers’ beauty, not to mention their impact on global ecosystems, is like nothing else in this world, so if I had a choice between performing for an audience or traipsing out to a glacier, I would use the glacier every time. That, to me, is more rewarding than the applause of an audience. It’s crucial. I couldn’t do this if I didn’t have the aerial background, obviously. But I couldn’t do this without my mountain background, either. They’re both equally important; sometimes I’m three or four storeys off the ground. There are some very serious risks involved. My ability to manage those is based on many, many years of work and experience and training in a number of different disciplines.