Join us for a site-specific outdoor dance performance as part of National Water Dance, a nationwide event that brings communities together to engage with and raise awareness about water.

This Charlottesville-based performance unfolds across the landscape, with the audience traveling alongside the dancers. Movement is inspired by the qualities of water—its capacity to flow, carve, gather, and transform—as well as the relationship between the waterways that shape our region and the fluid systems within the human body.

Rooted in the Rivanna River watershed, part of the larger James River and Chesapeake Bay system, this work invites us to consider water not only as a resource, but as a living system we are intimately connected to.

WHAT TO EXPECT

• A guided, traveling performance through outdoor spaces

• Audiences will walk short distances along trails and natural terrain

• A blend of structured choreography and responsive, site-based movement

ABOUT NATIONAL WATER DANCE

National Water Dance is a biennial, nationwide event that brings together dancers, choreographers, and communities across the United States. Performances take place simultaneously at rivers, lakes, wetlands, and other bodies of water, creating a collective gesture of attention, care, and action around water issues.

Each participating site develops its own choreography while contributing to a shared national moment.

ACCESSIBILITY

This performance takes place on outdoor paths and natural terrain, which may include uneven surfaces. If you have specific accessibility needs or questions, please reach out in advance and we will do our best to support your experience.