This is a timeline that you can use as a checklist for your Water Dance process:
June-December 2018
• Sign up for our Newsletter as a Choreographer or Site Leader.
• Fill out our GWD Event Site registration form
• Choose an outdoor place for your dance that is near water.
• Decide what local water issue is important to your site.
• Obtain the respective permits for your site (when needed)
• Partner with an environmental group or organization
• Apply for local funds to support your project
• Decide what environmental action you expect to achieve with your dance!
• Update your Event Site Form with new information!
January – April 2019
• Select your dancers
• Select your collaborators: musicians, visual artists, singers, poets, actors, etc
• Confirm your connections with environmental groups
• Begin your creative process for The Ritual and Local Dance
• Learn and teach the Global Dance and the Audience participation moves
• Send press packet (digital and/or printed format): Don’t forget members of the community, dance communities, environmental organizations
• Find a videographer/photographer to record your dance
• Find people to live stream your dance (when possible)
• Update your Event Site Form with new information!
• Post your updates on our Facebook Page/Twitter/Instagram
May 2019
• Resend Press Release, and follow up with phone calls and emails
• Continue posting on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram
• Update your event site form
• Continue with rehearsals
• Mantain contact with environmental groups
June 2019
• Live streaming rehearsal (for sites that are doing it)
• Set up technical rehearsals on site
• Perform!!!
July 2019
• Update your event Site Form with your video links, pictures and update performance information
• Send us your video footage and Pictures
