This is a timeline that you can use as a checklist for your Water Dance process:
June – December 2024
- 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 a body of water (when possible)
- Obtain the respective permits for your site (if needed)
- Decide what local water issue is important to your site.
- Partner with an environmental group or organization
- Apply for local funds to support your project: SIF and other funding opportunities
- Decide what environmental action you expect to achieve with your dance!
- Update your Event Site Form with new information!
January – April 2025
- 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 New Global Dance (available to learn January 2025) 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 2025
- 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
June 2025
- Live streaming rehearsal (for sites that are doing it)
- Set up technical rehearsals on site
- June 10th: Perform!!!
July 2025
- Update your event Site Form with your video links, pictures and update performance information.
- Send us your video footage and pictures to promote your work in case you had live performance by July 30th.