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Global Water Dances 2025 (Online Event)
URBAN-15 announces their Dance Ensemble will once again participate in Global Water Dances, a biennial multinational and community-oriented event that takes place at different water-related sites around the world. The Ensemble’s performance will be filmed at Padre Park with a piece evoking the flow of water along the San Antonio River. This video performance will premiere at youtube.com/GlobalWaterDances/streams on Saturday, June 14, 2025, as part of a streamed video collage made up of a hundred performances.
This year’s performance is once again choreographed by URBAN-15’s Artistic Director Catherine Cisneros. It is a collaboration with Sister Martha Ann Kirk of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word. The two have participated in Global Water Dances since 2017, with this piece marking their fifth year of participation.
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. It is a biennial event, taking place every other year. The first event took place in June 2011 where 57 locations came together for a 24 hour movement around the world. For more information about Global Water Dances, please visit globalwaterdances.org .
At the heart of Global Water Dances is a deep understanding that both WATER and MOVEMENT are connecting forces in our world. Global Water Dances promotes unity and togetherness through movement, using the arts to transform awareness into action on the local and global scales. Every event shares a structure where dancers around the world perform the same movements to the same music, on the same day, near bodies of water, from ocean beaches to plaza fountains. This creates a unifying global experience that transcends language and sends a synchronized global message of urgency and hope.
“Our work is about connection,” says Global Water Dances Artistic Director Vannia Ibarguen, “between body and planet, art and action, local and global: Dance helps us tell the story of water in ways people can feel—and remember.”
Now more than ever, we need artists to tell stories that move people into action. Global Water Dances mobilizes artists as leaders in the conversation about protecting water, empowering them as catalysts for change. Choreographers initiate collaborations with community groups, Indigenous leaders, scientists, youth, and environmental organizations to create impactful events that ripple far beyond the performance day – inspiring ongoing advocacy, education, and collaboration in the communities the events touch.
Since its launch in 2011, Global Water Dances has been organizing and promoting this event every two years; events are free and open to the public. They are also recorded and live-streamed to boost the visibility and to make it possible for anyone, anywhere, to witness and participate.
Global Water Dances is an effective platform for advocacy, education and empowerment, impacting thousands and reminding us that water is life – and that art can move people to action.
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