Performance with Retrospective Dance Group

I’m proud to be participating in Global Water Dances 2025 as a choreographer, working with the Retrospective Dance Group based at The Point in Eastleigh.

We will be dancing on The Garden Stage (on the right side of The Point building when you are standing in front of it). This is a free performance but donations are encouraged and very gratefully received.

We invite people to arrive at 2:30 PM, ready for the performance, which will start at 3:00 pm sharp. We will open the performance with a ritual, followed by a poetry reading as the dancers arrive in the space.

There will be a short participatory section in the dance for those audience members who wish to join in, but this isn’t obligatory; you can sit and enjoy the performance if you prefer.

The full performance will be longer than 30 minutes, and we’ll finish at around 3:30 pm. There will be time afterwards for us to chat together and buy and enjoy the delicious homemade cakes that will be on sale. We aim to have everything finished and cleared away by 4 pm.

About Global Water Dances

Global Water Dances is a worldwide performance event that uses the universal language of dance to raise awareness and inspire action on water issues. On June 14, 2025, people in over 100 locations across six continents will come together through dance to honour, 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.

This performance will be part of this international wave, rooted in our local environment and shaped by the creative voices of the community. We’ll share a choreographic journey that blends movement, reflection, and a call to care for the precious water that sustains us all.

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 synchronised 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.”

Now more than ever, we need artists to tell stories that move people into action. Global Water Dances mobilises 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 organisations 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 organising 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.

Learn more about the global initiative at globalwaterdances.org

This is a free event but donations are very welcome.