As It Is, And As It Could Be

Schedule

Sat Apr 20 2024 at 01:00 pm

Location

Frances Stevens Park | Palm Springs, CA

Coming together on this Earth Day weekend are hundreds of dancers from across the country to perform a site-specific dance 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 join others in uniting to celebrate and collectively take responsibility for protecting our Water.
With live music by Lorah Yaccarino, Desert Movement Arts will present their 20 minute piece As It Is, And As It Could Be at the uptown water sculpture fountain, Rainmaker, by artist David Morris at Frances Stevens Park.

This year, Desert Movement Arts addresses the problem of access to bodies of water without an entrance fee. Here in the desert, there is nowhere we can rehearse and perform near a body of water that is not privately owned. The 35-foot-tall stainless steel Rainmaker water sculpture is in a public park. Different from our usual movement choices, some of this piece is quite architectural.

We are aware that water is a commodity—contrived, controlled, consumed—not unlike women's bodies. A section of the work confronts this. The closing section is an imagining what we dream is possible—respect, reverence, reciprocity.
Free and Open to All. Join us on the lawn and bring a chair or blanket, and perhaps a parasol or hat.

Where is it happening?

Frances Stevens Park, 538 N Palm Canyon Dr,Palm Springs,CA,United States

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Host or Publisher Desert Movement Arts

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