Jubilation Dance Ensemble, MDC Kendall Campus and Miami Arts Charter – Photo by Lisa Nalven
Welcome to National Water Dance!
Although National Water Dance is ending, we want to support you in organizing a performance in your area and potentially connecting with other communities. The impact of this project lies in the power of your creative imagination at your local site, and if other sites are included, magnified by the collective energy generated through connecting over the internet. In this way, dancer by dancer, we create our movement choir!
The steps are simple. Here is an outline for you to consider:
- Choose a site where you want to perform and in an area that needs attention. What are the water issues in your area?
- Find collaborators in your dancers, other artists, environmentalists, or if you are a part of an institution perhaps there are science departments that would want to engage with you. Whether you are a group or a soloist, take time to know your site and ask questions like “What is its story?”
- If you are working with other groups or working from improvisation, create an opening and closing phrase, inspired by the chosen sites, which everyone will perform in unison to open and close the dance. These phrases are the elements that create a movement choir and for National Water Dance connected all of the dancers across the country through time and movement.
- You may find that you want to share longer phrases of movement that are created out of submitted phrases by many participants. The beauty of a movement choir is the freedom that comes from our creative imagination to move and dance with our unique choices and then to find the power that we experience in unison movement.
- We wish you joy in your dancing journey!
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Our Commitment
As artists we know that creativity is born from disruption: disruption that is fed by questions, by self-evaluation, by new and diverse ideas from those who challenge us as we begin the process necessary to change. National Water Dance commits to this journey of creativity and to the goal of equity for all by supporting diversity in its many forms. We recognize that our present systems are based on inequality and we eagerly step into the work to correct the past structures and find a more balanced future.
You are the voices that we want to hear, the bodies we want to see move, the imaginations that can change the world. Come join us and be a part of the ever-expanding vision that dance brings to this Earth that we share.