2025 Global Waters World Wide Dance Event

The Putnam County Dance Project invites you to support the movement for safe water everywhere by joining in a coordinated week of arts, advocacy, and education. 

Arts on the Lake, Putnam County Dance Project, and other organizations are collaborating locally as part of the the 8th international Global Water Dances event. 

This free family-friendly event starts the week of June 14th, with a local youth art exhibit in the gallery and continues with live performances on June 21.

Schedule for the Global Waters Week 

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June 14-21st 2025

Putnam County DANCE Project is at Arts on the Lake participating in Global Water Dances, an international movement to dance for clean water for everyone.

The weeklong festival of dance, music, art, film and education about our environment, especially our water, begins Saturday, June 14th and goes through Saturday, June 21st. Scroll down to stay up to date on activities throughout the week!

Opening Day: Saturday, June 14th, 3 p.m.

Putnam County Dance Project dances the Global Water Dance that is performed around the world on 6-14-2025.

• The Lakeside Chorus joins us bringing their award winning voices to this celebration and day of action!

• Nature inspired artwork from students in the George Fischer Middle School in the Carmel Central School District are on display. Come see the wonderful work from our youth artists! 

• Flag making and artwork.

• Join us beach side as our paddle board dancer Flanna Kimmick completes the opening ceremony with a communal dance and a trail of floating lanterns.
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Saturday, June 21St, Sat, 3 p.m. 

• Dance Aerialists:
• Local dance: PCDP dancers with music composed by Pierre de Gaillande
• Westchester Drummers - (not confirmed) 
• The Dance Conservatory primary dancers perform

Film Screening: Water Is Love

3:50 p.m.  Ceremony Lakeside

4 p.m. Sustainability Fair, and speaker inside the gallery

5 p.m. Closing Ceremony Lakeside

This project is made possible, in part, through the Putnam Arts Council’s Arts Link Grant Program with public funds provided through the NY State Council on the Arts with support from the Office of the Governor and the NY State Legislature.

Global Waters - History

Global Water Dances began as a collective idea of an international group of individuals, with decades of experience in producing Movement Choirs: events that use community dance to create social cohesion through non-verbal communication.

On June 14, 2025, people in over 100 locations across six continents will come together through dance to honor, protect, and speak out for one of Earth’s most vital resources: water. From cities to remote villages, thousands will join in Global Water Dances, an international event where artists, scientists, youth, elders, and activists join forces to advocate for the human right of access to clean water.

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 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.” 

Participation in Global Water Dances is open to anyone who loves to move.