Its Community Day! Join us in the Children’s Garden for water dance/movement workshop with Marlene Robbins (11:00am), Folks Dance – Community Dancing with Marlene Robbins & Mimi Chenfeld (1:00pm) and Global Water Dances Columbus performances by Hixon Dance Company & Tapestry Performing Arts Company (2:00pm)

Join us at the Priscilla R. Tyson Cultural Arts Center for a lively conversation and coffee. Artists will be announced soon.

And Water For All © 2022, a documentary discusses water affordability in Ohio. Building and maintaining the physical infrastructure to deliver high-quality, affordable water to Ohio's citizens is a costly endeavor, and how to pay for these important investments can lead to heightened levels of social and political conflict.

Join a discussion with the film’s producer and other panelists about water issues in Ohio and beyond.

Open Mic. Multi-Arts Performances from TRANSIT ARTS Performance Group. Outdoor. Featuring , poet/spoken word post, Danielle Culpepper and Deborah Tribune’s Foot Steps Dance Company. FREE Admission for all.

Join the Dublin Arts Council & the Columbus Modern Dance Company (CoMo) for a special Global Water Dance performance. Special performance of Doris “Humphrey’s 1928 Modern Dance classic, Water Study, restaged by Valarie Williams, dance faculty at The Ohio State University with permission from the Dance Notation Bureau in NYC. Free and Open to All.

Greater Columbus Arts Festival features Global Water Dances International Event. Live Streamed at 3:00pm at more than 150 sites worldwide. Everyone is welcome! Join the fun! Participate in The Global Dance and the Israeli folk dance, Mayim! Mayim! with GWDC partners, Momentum, Marlene Robbins & Mim Chenfeld! Meet at the Dance • Theatre Stage at Genoa Park Main Stage • Downtown Columbus.

Bring your entire family to the Ohio Village for a full day of fun. Enjoy water-themed children’s literature shared by storytellers, dancers and musicians in performance and pop-up workshops on the Ohio Village grounds.

Featured GWDC partners include: Columbus City Schools’ dance/movement educator, Karen King Cavin (9:00am-11:45am) and Goree Drum & Dance (12noon)

World Ocean Day

Join MORPE (Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission), Franklin Soil & Water Conservation District & Priscilla R. Tyson Cultural Arts Center in a Panel Discussion to highlight the significant role that we all have in ensuring clan and abundant water resources for a growing region..

Join us for the Water Is Life Opening Reception. View 20 Columbus-based visual artists new work focused on water. Poet and Spoken Word artist, Dionne Custer Edwards will read new poetry manuscript.

Features choreography by Laura Patterson, Artistic Director of LP & Dancers and Highland Elementary School’s After School Garden Club.

Live music, dance and poetry performance in collaboration with the Landscapes Photography Exhibition – Featuring SELO, Times Past Vintage Dance, Perennial Movement Group, Mansee Signhi, Hixon Dance Company, LP & Dancers, and Dr. Susann Moeller, from the Ohio Poetry Association’s Eco Poets Collective.

GWDC Dance Artists perform new water-focused work at Indianola Informal for children in fifth grade through eighth grade. Featured choreography from Sarah Hixon, Hixon Dance Company; Mariah Layne French & Corrine Wood, Xclaim Dance Company; Tanya Calamonerie, Dance Faculty @ The Ohio State University & Marion Ramirez, Dance Faculty @ Denison University; plus independent choreographers, Mansee Singhi and Brianna Rhodes.

GWDC Dance Artists perform new water-focused work at Indianola Informal for children in grades kindergarten through 4th grade. Featured choreography from Sarah Hixon, Hixon Dance Company; Mariah Layne French and Corrine Wood, Xclaim Dance Company; Tanya Calamonerie, dance faculty @ The Ohio State University & Marion Ramirez, dance faculty @ Denison University; plus independent choreographers, Mansee Singhi and Brianna Rhodes.

Evolution Productions, Inc. presents its newest evening length work, Fluidity - The Water of Life! A celebration at the intersection of water and life cycles! This multi-arts collaboration features Tapestry Performing Arts Company; Columbus Dance Theatre, Artisan Dance Collective; composers & musicians, Dr. Shawn’Thunder” Wallace, Tony Hagood & Imani-Grace Cooper; Natalia Chase’s Vocal Ensemble, Unified!; Spoke Word from Taylor Dunlop, Kristen Branham & Kyle Branham, and visual artist by Taylor Skinner a.k.a. Artisan.

Evolution Productions, Inc. presents its newest evening length work, Fluidity - The Water of Life! A celebration at the intersection of water and life cycles! This multi-arts collaboration features Tapestry Performing Arts Company; Columbus Dance Theatre, Artisan Dance Collective; composers & musicians, Dr. Shawn’Thunder” Wallace, Tony Hagood & Imani-Grace Cooper; Natalia Chase’s Vocal Ensemble, Unified!; Spoke Word from Taylor Dunlop, Kristen Branham & Kyle Branham, and visual artist by Taylor Skinner a.k.a. Artisan.

Evolution Productions, Inc. presents its newest evening length work, Fluidity - The Water of Life! A celebration at the intersection of water and life cycles! This multi-arts collaboration features Tapestry Performing Arts Company; Columbus Dance Theatre, Artisan Dance Collective; composers & musicians, Dr. Shawn’Thunder” Wallace, Tony Hagood & Imani-Grace Cooper; Natalia Chase’s Vocal Ensemble, Unified!; Spoke Word from Taylor Dunlop, Kristen Branham & Kyle Branham, and visual artist by Taylor Skinner a.k.a. Artisan.

Join In! Have Fun! Bring Your Friends! Be Inspired! Dance for Positive Change! Protect and Heal Our Natural Water Resource!

Location: Meet at the Pond near the Children’s Playground at Whetstone’s Park of Roses.

I. Women Drumming (A Call To Gather) – BabaaRitah Clark and Friends

II. Water Soundscape with OBLSK, Inc.’s Eve Warnock.

III. Community Ceremony for Healing Waters facilitated by Motherful’s Heidi Howes

IV Learn The Global Dance from Global Water Dances’ Artistic Director, Vannia Ibaguen.

V. Learn the Israeli Folk Dance, Mayim, Mayim! (Water! Water!) taught by Hillel Israeli Folk Dancers – Marlene Robbins & Mimi Chenfeld

VI. Participate in an Informal Community Performance/Dance Flash Mob!

We will learn these dances today in preparation for the Global Water Dances event (streamed to more than 180 sites worldwide) on Saturday, June 10th at 3:00pm at the Columbus Arts Festival’s Genoa Stage on the Scioto River.

Calling all kayakers! If you are a kayaker, join us on the Scioto River at 3:00pm on June 10th for the International Global Water Dances event (See above details). From your kayak ‘dance’ The Global Dance! All are welcome!

This session demonstrates how poetry and movement can serve as an impetus and means of exploration in an intergenerational environmental justice work about water. Included is a performance of the work generated from the collaborative writing and dance making processes during a month long after-school residency at Indianola K8 School in Columbus, Ohio.

Co-Presenters –

Ambre Emory-Maier, Dance Faculty, School of Theatre & Dance, Kent State University

David Hassler, Director of the Wick Poetry Center, Kent State University

Amy Williams, Dance Educator, Indianola Informal K8 School in Columbus, Ohio.

This hybrid movement workshop introduces participants to how Global Water Dances (GWD) encourages an international community to use their bodies to express their relationships with water by learning the” Global Dance”. This session will concluded with excerpts from Ripples and Reflections: 10 Years of Global Water Dances and a presentation of the new GWD education program, which provides professional development opportunities to dance educators.

Co-Presenters:

Vannia Ibarguen Artistic Director of Global Water dances, a biennial event where hundreds of cities around the world create outdoor dances to raise awareness about water issues in local and global communities. Vannia is a choreographer, edcuator, filmmaker, and Director of VIDA - Vannia Ibaguen Dance Art. She has performed and choreographed in Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Mexico Columbia, Cuba, Hong Kong and the USA.

Natasha Alhadeff-Jones Education Consultant for Global Water Dances. Natasha is a dance educator who is passionate about the relationship between creativity, community and connection with the environment. She is Co-Director of the Sunkronis Institute and founder of Alliance Action Arts, both based in Geneva, Switzerland and serving international and intergenerational audiences.

2023 OhioDance Festival — Environmental Vibe!

This session brings together three educator/artists and their work with 6th through 12th grade students. Highlighting their unique dance making practices as they relate to their student’s choices of water conservation/preservation topics, particippnts will witness how these artists engaged with their students to make meaningful work for the Global Water Dances Project.

Co-Presenters: Jenny Burnett, Director of Dance & Co-Director of the Center for Creative Arts, Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights,, Ohio; Brianna Rhodes, Artist Performer Activist, Poet working with Dance Extension in Columbus, Ohio; Marlene Leber, Dance Education Mentor High School in Mentor, Ohio.

2023 OhioDance Festival Environmental Vibe!

Open Plenary Session.

This session brings together early childhood and elementary school-age children to share their water dances. Facilitated by highly skilled dance teaching artists/educators, we will share our dance making practices and see children dancing impactful water dances. Co Presenters: Loren Bucek, GWDC Children’s Dance Makers; Sarah Hixon, Kids ChoreoLab, Hixon Dance; Karen King Cavin, Duxberry Park Arts IMPACT ES; and Amy Williams, Indianola Informal K8 School, Columbus City Schools.