HALLOWELL — In celebration of Earth Day, hundreds of dancers from across the country plan to come together at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 20, for the National Water Dance 2024: Moving Forward Together, a site-specific event at a river, a bay, the ocean, a fountain or any water site nearby.

From Seattle to Mississippi, Maine to California, Wisconsin to Florida, dancers of all ages and experience will unite to celebrate and collectively take responsibility for protecting the water.

The River Studio’s intergenerational dance group, The Spiral Dance Collective, will offer a free collaborative performance, the sixth bi-annual National Water Dance, in Granite City Park at 94 Water St. The studio will offer a community workshop prior to the performance at 3 p.m., when local residents are invited to co-create the final dance that will be livestreamed across the nation.

Collaborators include the Hallowell Conservation Commission, the Hallowell Climate Action Committee, Maine sculptors Jon Doody, Mark Herrington, and Isabel Kelley, and local farmer and writer Jonathan Strieff.

“The group was created so that people of all ages could co-create site specific dances that explore our relationship to local issues, people and spaces. This partnership with National Water dance was a perfect fit,” said Spiral Dance Collective’s founder, dancer and choreographer Christine Little, according to a news release from the studio.

The Spiral Dance Collective’s participation in National Water Dance is sponsored in part by the Hallowell Arts and Culture Committee, Vision Hallowell, and Perennial Renewables.

The Hallowell Community Flood Recovery Fund will benefit from a freewill donation.

For more information, email The River Studio at [email protected] or visit riverstudiohallowell.com.

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