Global Water Dances
Videography by Michèle Cramont
Connect to the environment through your body.
Support communities in need.
Join the fight for safe water.
Photo by Simon Gentry
2023
Sue Schroeder and Christian Meyer as longtime collaborators have created body of water, a film offering for Global Water Dances 2023. Filmed in 50℉ water temperature in Stößensee, Berlin, the lake provided the location to explore the myriad ways that water can connect with and inform our human nature.
In Berlin, the main water quality problems are eutrophication, the associated growth of algae, and damage to the oxygen balance caused by eight major sewage plants. Schroeder, along with Meyer, wishes to raise awareness for this issue in Berlin through this 3rd creation for Global Water Dances. See Context below for more information.
Global Water Dances connects and supports a global community of choreographers and dancers to inspire action and international collaboration for water issues through the universal language of dance. Global Water Dances is a bold visionary worldwide artistic initiative focused on the critical need for safe drinking water. The organization uses one of most effective way to do that, through the dance, which is the language understandable by everyone despite their nationality. Global Water Dances uses the international languages of dance and film to promote awareness and a behavioral shift toward solutions for water preservation and conservation through community engagement.
Global Water Dances
Core Dance aims to bring voice to our communities through purposeful connection and action-oriented initiatives. Our work is deeply embedded in the issues that we all face, both nationally and globally.
We choose to act as environmental advocates by holding ourselves accountable for our actions and the effects of those actions on the planet. For us this means sharing important, relevant information with our community in ways that are accessible, taking an active role on the frontlines of the environmental crisis, and encouraging others to take action.
Global Water Dances (GWD) connects and supports a global community of choreographers and dancers to inspire action and international collaboration for water issues through the universal language of dance. Global Water Dances is a bold visionary worldwide artistic initiative focused on the critical need for safe drinking water. The organization uses one of most effective way to do that, through the dance, which is the language understandable by everyone despite their nationality. Global Water Dances uses the international languages of dance and film to promote awareness and a behavioral shift toward solutions for water preservation and conservation through community engagement.
Past Years
2021: Hawaii
In June 2021, Core Dance will join dance artists and environmentalists on the Big Island of Hawaii for Global Water Dances 2021. Working alongside the Hawai’i Wildlife Fund at Kamilo Point and Hawai’i Environmental Restoration in the lowland rainforest of Keau'ohana, we will experience the environmental crisis first hand and bring our experience and the Call To Action to the Core Dance Community worldwide.
