This page contains resources for you to help you through the process of creating your site-specific dance. The first step is to subscribe to our Newsletter as a Choreographer or a Site Leader. Then please register your location with the Event Site Registration Form (available on September 2020)
About our June event
We understand these are difficult times for organizing a site-specific dance with a group of dancers due to the pandemic. We are currently reviewing the guidelines for our 2021 event. Please be sure to visit us again in a few months to check for updates. The following guidelines are from our previous global event in 2019:
The Event Structure
Each location would produce a 4-part site-specific performance; the first two parts local and latter two global:
- Section I. Ritual: An opening ceremony specific to each site.
- Section II. Local Dance: It is open to what you want as a choreographer. You can use locally-based music, with the theme about local water issues.
- Section III. Global Dance: Simultaneous choreography (movement choir) done by all the performers worldwide to the same piece of music, connecting participants and audience globally. Watch the video
- Section IV. Participatory Dance: Audience participation in a very simple movement sequence. Some sites will teach the moves right during this Finale, while at other sites the audience will have learned prior to performance. Download the music here.
Important Details
- Include actions: Take on the issues needed in your community, including politics. Past models have included petitions, call to action, causes, etc.
- Partner up: work with environmentally related organizations for speakers and taking collections or helping charities related to water: charity:water, http://www.theglobalfund.org, etc. We can help you to find the right match!
- Include Movement Choirs: The idea is to have a big group of people dancing. If you want some ideas about how develop your own site specific performance please read this Modern Day Movement Choirs Document.
- Embody Water: At some point, everyone becomes water, river, stream, ocean, puddle. Moving as one mind/body has potency. Working on consciousness and action is important.
- Involve others: Consider programming Section II with groups that will participate in section III. Section I could be also participatory and can involve kids and seniors.
Visit our Facebook page and join our GWD Choreographers Facebook group
Music and Videos for Sections III and IV
Agreement: By downloading GWD music, I agree that it will be used specifically for our Global Water Dances Project, and not for other performances or purposes.
Section III. The Global Dance
Music
Video
- Section III Instructional video (2019).
Written Score
Section IV. Participatory Dance
Music
- Section IV: 4 minute clip mp3 – Listen to music and download
- Section IV full length mp3 – Listen to music and download (for a longer version, if audience section might go longer)
Video
Publicity Tools
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- Please use these postcard options as one side of your publicity postcard, with information about your event on the opposite side.
- GWD/LIMS letterhead
- GWD Logo Vertical
- GWD Logo Horizontal
- LIMS Logo
- GWD 2019 Press Release
- GWD 2019 Local Press Release Template English Version New!
- GLOBAL WATER DANCES, Dancing for safe water everywhere (Powerpoint presentation in PDF format)
