INFO PROVIDED BY OUR BELOVED JEANIE! GLOBAL WATER DANCES~
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From: Lavonne R.
Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 8:30 PM
Subject: Info provided by our Beloved Jeanie! Global Water Dances~
ID: 270659

Global Water Dances is a world event planned for June 25, 2011. On this day, a series of live dance events around the globe will be performed, centered around water issues. Beginning in the Western Pacific Rim, and encircling the globe, the series of dances will span 24-hours and also be broadcast online.

We invite you to apply to participate as a choreographer. As a member of the creative team, you would work online and across distances: planning, creating, developing, and resourcing Global Water Dances.

Global Water Dances is a model of how to use participatory art-making to raise consciousness about environmental problems and how to bring people together to work on solving these problems. Participants and viewers of Global Water Dances will learn about the critical role of humans in protecting water supplies. (Please see: http://globalwaterdances.org)

The performances will take place in outdoor places where water and/or water issues are prevalent; i.e. at a lake, river, ocean or dried up water bed. In each locale, interested participants will come together at a designated hour on June 25, 2011 to perform in front of an audience (and video). The envisioned structure for the dance performance can be with professionals and/or lay dancers and includes some elements of a Laban Movement Choir. The dance piece consists of four sections: Section I: The first 2 - 20 minutes of the performance will be in the mode of a ritual. It can include local spiritual and/or religious leaders engaging in a ceremony to address the water issues of the area. We also envision Laban’s Dimensional Scale, which we have adapted to the theme, to be a part of this opening. Section II: This section of approximately twenty minutes is for the local choreographer (you) to create a work that is appropriate to your area and cultural traditions, using local musicians/composers (hopefully), around the water issues of your area. Section III: This 10 - 20-minute section will be a dance that is pre-choreographed (and rehearsed!).It will have portions in it which have been created by all of the choreographers globally: a global water dance to unite all geographic areas. Section III will hopefully include a broad sector of your community who come to just a few rehearsals to learn to perform a Movement Choir. Section IV: This is a very short but very important section, in which all of the audience is invited to join in the final few moments. The exact moves (perhaps gestural moves that can be done in place) will be worked out and will be “universal” – whether Space Harmony moves, or a simple Motif score, or some other moves, our goal is to have the audience participate in easy moves that are common-to-all-sites. The local choroegraphers or choreographic teams will be working with large groups and the audience. Toward this end, choreographers may have their own expertise in working with Movement Choirs or large groups, or they might work with a Dance Therapist who can work with the audience that day to engage them in joining in the movements of the dance, and to empower stewardship of the water of the planet.

We are currently seeking a composer for Sections III and IV.

At the moment we are working from a no-budget perspective. We are working on getting grants for overall coordination of the project. While we have no funds yet, we can offer to support groups in grantwriting and/or providing fiscal agency’s 501c3(in USA) in your local areas. We especially are seeking funds in order for each local venue to video the event and stream it onto the internet, to be shared with all. We are also asking each choreographer to work together on sequences for Section III, and on costumes, settings, etc. (We do not feel these need to be identical in any way, but should be discussed and organized). If you are interested in being considered for the role of choreographer, please submit: · Your name, address, phone, email, any other contact info (Skype, Facebook, etc.)

· A resume of your choreographic work and your Laban background

To: Marylee Hardenbergh director.gsp@gmail.com Thank you for your interest in this project! Sincerely, Marylee Hardenbergh, Antja Kennedy, Karen Bradley. Martha Eddy and Gretchen Dunn

Marylee Hardenbergh Director, Global Site Performance (612) 788-2349 director.gsp@gmail.com