Come Join Us!

What is a SPLASH DANCE?

 

It’s a movement choir — a community outdoor celebration of water and the environment —

bringing the community together … and often includes viewers in the dance!

A flash mob about freshwater, invites dancers of all ages and movers of all kinds to join together and celebrate the power of people dancing for a common purpose. We are looking to create a “water ethic” that will inform and inspire both movers and viewers to conserve and protect the waters that we all use and enjoy.

 

Past Splash Dances

NEWaukee Night Market August

COME FALL INTO A FLASH DANCE?

Join the SPLASH DANCE
— a freshwater flash mob –
at Urban Ecology Center-Washington Park for AUTUMN FEST
JOIN HERE or on fb SPLASH DANCE

to learn wet & wild moves for the flash dance Wednesdays in October
and dance on Saturday, October 29, 2016 — 2:00pm.

No previous dance necessary, learn the dance, add your own moves, bring friends, laugh, dance & show how you’re falling for clean water and rivers!

Practice sessions for AUTUMN FEST
are Wednesdays October 12, 19, 26 6:30-7:30pm at the
DanceCircus Studios — 527 N 27th Street (between Michigan & Clybourn)

Click to View Volunteer Opportunities on SignUp.com

This event is sponsored by the Wisconsin Arts Board and UEC!
Thank our sponsors!

We’re using SignUp.com (the leading online signup and reminder tool) to organize our upcoming activity.

Please sign up for SPLASH DANCE at UEC Autumn Festival!

Here’s how it works in 3 easy steps:
1. Click this link to go to our invitation page on SignUp.com: http://signup.com/go/WLLJHT
2. Enter your email address: (You will NOT need to register an account on SignUp.com)
3. Sign up! Choose your spots – SignUp.com will send you an automated confirmation and reminders. Easy!

Note: SignUp.com does not share your email address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your email address, please contact me at bettys@dancecircus.org and I can sign you up manually.

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HEY!
ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT WATER?
Join the SPLASH DANCE — a freshwater flash mob –
at the NEWwaukee NIGHT MARKET,
We’ll teach you the wet & wild moves Sunday August 14, 5:30pm (location: tba)
and lead you in the flashy splashy dance Wednesday, August 17, 2016 — 7:30pm
on Wisconsin Ave between 2nd & 4th Streets

No previous dance necessary, learn the dance, add your own moves, bring friends, laugh, dance & show your concern for clean water and rivers!

This event is sponsored by the Wisconsin Arts Board and NEWaukee!
Thank our sponsors!

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CONTACT:
Please leave your contact info for Betty at: bettys@dancecircus.org or 414-277-8158 (office hours) and she will contact you via cell/text.
REHEARSALS: “friend” the FB sign up and check in for details.

WHAT TO WEAR:
Comfortable clothing for easy moving in blue, purple and/or black water colors; comfortable tennis/sports wear/mall walkers shoes (please remember that there are potholes and cracks in the streets as well as pedestrians [of all ages], vendors, power cables, clothes racks, and much more.  Please to keep safe while moving, please wear solid “flat” shoes!).
WHAT TO BRING;
Cell phone, ID, etc and small(er) purse that can be secured to your body or big pockets to store your valuables during the dance.
ANYTHING ELSE:
Sign participation release; Invite friends with phones to send video of the dance to DanceCircus. We’ll post on DanceCircus webpage and You Tube channel.

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WISCONSIN ARTS BOARD

AWARDS DanceCircus FUNDS FOR

FOUR SPLASH DANCE EVENTS!

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SPLASH DANCE: RIVER, part of
NATIONAL WATER DANCE April 16, 2016

A freshwater flash mob at Arts @ Large Gallery

(Project WATERSHED exhibit)

as part of Gallery Night and Day

National Water Dance, Woodlands 5&6 at Arts @ Large Gallery
National Water Dance, Woodlands 5&6 at Arts @ Large Gallery

Ten 5th & 6th grade students from Woodlands School learned sections of the National Water Dance choreography in just four 45 min sessions. They rehearsed with the adults moving the ‘river’ and three guest performers (including two little ‘frogs’) prior to the live-streamed event on Saturday April 16, 2016.

Special thanks to the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s A.C.E. Program
for supporting the development of SPLASH DANCE: RIVER
in cooperation with the National Water Dance.
Watch for more photos and stories from SPLASH DANCE: RIVER
and other freshwater flash mob evens.


 

SPLASH DANCE: Make a SPLASH or watch the FLASH
freshwater flash mob for Gallery Night & Day -Saturday April 16, 2016.
Arts @ Large Gallery 908 S 5th Street (1 block south of National Ave.) in the WATERSHED EXHIBIT.

1:30pm arrive to LEARN parts of dance or SET-UP cameras;

AUDIENCE 2:45pm arrive to WATCH dance;

3:00-3:06pm DANCE and VIDEO National Water Dance simulcast/video live feed;
3:15pm DANCE for VIDEO retakes (if necessary);

CELEBRATE til 4:00pm (gallery closing).

CONTACT:
Please leave your contact info for Betty at: bettys@dancecircus.org or 414-277-8158 (office hours) and she will contact you via cell/text.
WHAT TO WEAR:
DANCERS; wear blue, purple and/or brown clothing (river colors) which are also comfortable to move in (including easy sliding on floor), socks/or/bare feet as comfortable.
WHAT TO BRING;
CAMERA OPERATORS; cell phones (may need to download free app) or video cams and tripods; coordinate download to DanceCircus.
ANYTHING ELSE:
Free street parking; Sign short video release for distribution of video to National Water Dance and DanceCircus You Tube/Vimeo channels.

Attention all MOVERS and DANCERS! Wanna join DanceCircus dancers and Woodlands School middle school students in a freshwater flash mob?

Join the NATIONAL WATER DANCE and connect with 163+ groups across the country simultaneously bringing awareness to local water issues. Performance at the Arts @ Large Gallery inside the beautiful WATERSHED exhibit created by MPS students.

REHEARSAL: Saturday April 16, 2016 1:30pm at Arts @ Large Gallery 908 S 5th Street Everyone will learn the opening and closing movements; learn an improvised section: and, practice the ending with the “river” prop.

(Got 2-left feet? Bring your phone to capture the event and people, and join in the fun!)

PERFORMANCE: plan to arrive at 2:45 as the simulcast begins at 3:00pm Don’t miss the SPLASH DANCE! (it concludes by 3:06pm)

SPLASH DANCE Rehearsal
SPLASH DANCE Rehearsal

Part of GALLERY NIGHT & DAY

at Arts @ Large Gallery 

908 S 5th Street, Milwaukee

(one block south of National Ave in Walker’s Point)

 

 

NATIONAL WATER DANCE is a site-specific simultaneous event across the United States that will be live streamed on the Internet.

What is the NATIONAL WATER DANCE?

A Celebration of Arts in Action

National Water Dance (NWD) is a collective of dance artists and educators. Stretching from coast to coast and from Alaska to Florida we are creating a “movement choir”, a simultaneous, site-specific performance of dancers and movers of all ages and experience, to bring attention to the pressing issues of water in the United States. National Water Dance believes that our environment is the most urgent issue of this generation and that artists need to take the lead in addressing it. As dancers we want to use our bodies to create a community that cries out for action.

THE 2016 EVENT National Water Dance

Come Join Us

National Water Dance is creating an opportunity for dancers of all ages and movers of all kinds to experience the power of art and performance as a vehicle for social change by collaborating on the formation of a nation wide movement choir. Our goal is to initiate a national “water ethic” that can inform and inspire both participants and audience members to take responsibility for conserving and protecting the water that they use and enjoy.

What is a movement choir?

A movement choir is a community of people dancing together for a common purpose. First conceived by Rudolf Laban they are often performed outside in celebration of the environment and frequently participants invite the audience to join the dance.

How will we do this?

We will be initiating our movement choir by connecting with one another through the Internet and sharing movement phrases and gestures. These movements will be the source from which a common dance phrase will be created and one that everyone around the country will share in their choreographic process.

When will it happen?

This site-specific simultaneous event across the United States will occur on April 16, 2016, and will be live streamed on the Internet.

 


 

 

Splash Dance from DanceCircus on Vimeo.

 

EARFUL from DanceCircus on Vimeo.