Did you know the Hydration Foundation designed a signature event called “Dance For Water”? This trademark event began during COVID in 2020 to allow us to gather on the shores of Ocean Beach in San Francisco and thank Water in the midst of our pandemic. Sixteen women from the Buckminster Fuller Design Science Fellowship filmed and participated in a unique “Thank You” dance based on anthropologist and Hydration Foundation founder, Gina Bria’s research into traditional practices from the San Francisco indigenous Ohlone culture. Recognizing that Ocean Beach had been the site since time immemorial of women’s unique role in thanking the local waters by dancing, and seeing that during COVID the beach remained painfully empty, she choreographed the Hydration Foundation’s first Dance for Water event. Since then Dance for Water events have taken place, besides San Francisco, in New York City, Dubai and Chicago celebrating and offering reverence to the Waters of those cities. 2025 will see the Dance for Water events at Climate Week in New York and Providence Rhode Island, famous for its own WaterFire celebrations.
Unlike regular DJ’d dance events, Dance for Water relies on a collective experience of guided dance movement creating and allowing coherent, swirling, vibrant bioenergy fields to appear. Anyone can join in, young and old, to offer their thanks for water, rejoining people and lineages that have been Dancing for Water since the beginning of time.
