Global Water Dances

Water image by Steve Sorman 


 

A Dance by the River

 

Join friends, neighbors and people around the world
in a community dance by the Roeliff Jansen Kill
to celebrate, learn about and protect this vital resource

 

 

Saturday, June 25th, 5:00 pm

 

Free Admission  

   

Choreographed by Joan Arnold & Donna Barrett

Drumming by Steve Collins & Friends

 

 

 

Local dancers: Maryvonne Bittner, Ellen Forman, Sheila Gowan,
Catherine Gross, Anna Marcus, Michael Messing,
Cara Murray, Jim Paul, Roberta Roll, Louisa Ruby & you!

 

 

Roeliff Jansen Kill


 

To highlight the current challenges to clean water  

- internationally and in our area -  

Joan Arnold directs a community dance by the river in Ancram,

on the banks of the Roeliff Jansen Kill.  

 

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Ancram is contributing to a series of dances done around the world,  

each locale performing at 5:00 pm their local time.

For more information and a list of participating locations: Click here

 

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Donna Barrett choreographs the opening invocation  

and dances with the Wild Roses Troupe, the group she directs  

at the Hudson Valley Academy of the Performing Arts in West Taghkanic.

With dancers Aryn Kanaga, Courtney Lueck and Charlotte Hendrickson.

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Joan Arnold choreographs the following sections with local dancers

Maryvonne Bittner, Ellen Forman, Sheila Gowan, Catherine Gross,  

Anna Marcus, Michael Messing, Cara Murray,

Jim Paul, Roberta Roll, Louisa Ruby and others.

 For the conclusion, the audience is invited to join in.  

 

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Audience will gather at the gazebo  

behind the Ancram Opera House at 5 pm.

 

All will be guided down the hill to the river.

Performance will happen, rain or shine.

 

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Join us later in the evening  

at  Project Troubador's Grove Festival, lakeside in Lakeville, CT,

for music and dancing.

   

Weekend accommodations:

The Opera House has made a special arrangement with the beautiful

Pumpkin Hollow Retreat Center, twenty minutes from Ancram.

For information about their economical accommodations,

check www.ancramoperahouse.com.  

To reserve an overnight weekend stay there,  

email [email protected].

 

 

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We all drink from the same source.

 

 

  

Roe Jan photo: Joan Arnold



For directions to the Ancram Opera House, as well as other information, click the logo:

 

 

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room to move for body and mind 


 






 

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