To mark the 20th anniversary of the non-profit dance organization, the Sunshine Coast Dance Society has assembled a select group of choreographers and professional calibre dancers to perform at four to six Coast festivals from June to October.
The festival dancers will bring their interpretation of a critical environmental message via music and dance to Gibsons, Sechelt, Pender Harbour, Powell River and regions in between.
This moving and flexible tour de dance will enlighten, educate and entertain members of the local communities as well as show off talented Coast dancers and choreographers to the thousands of expected visitors that attend these annual festivals.
Water will be the over-arching theme for the 2013 dance troupe. The project will be launched this Saturday, June 15, at the second biannual Global Water Dances Day, which is also the day the main stage event at the Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival will occur. The outdoor performance venue will be staged this year on Gower Point Road next to the waterfront, Winegarden Park, and well number one of the Gibsons aquifer, a valuable public source for the community's fresh water. The dancers have created a series of innovative pieces for performance titled Dances on Water to articulate their environmental message.
As part of the Global Water Dances Day on Saturday, one of the dance performance pieces by the festival dancers will include audience participation and be video-streamed worldwide, creating additional awareness for Gibsons and all our coastal communities reliant on the sea and fresh water resources.
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