National Water Dance 2024 at Crandon Park, Key Biscayne, FL Photo by Lisa Nalven
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
November 15 – 20, 2025
GIVE MIAMI DAY
Join NWD Projects in enhancing our relationship with nature.
At NWD Projects, we believe in the dynamics of collaboration and community engagement. For more than ten years, we have been dedicated to harnessing the visceral power of dance to not only raise awareness about our environment but to underscore the collective responsibility we all share in caring for it. What makes us unique is our commitment to commissioning artists who create and perform in challenging, site-specific locations, making the natural world our stage—whether that’s the mangrove forests of Matheson Hammock, the cypress sloughs of the Everglades, or the sandbar at Biscayne Nature Center.
Give Miami Day is sponsored by the Miami Foundation, raising awareness and donations for nonprofits across Miami-Dade County.
NWD Projects
We are dancers, and our voices speak most truthfully through our bodies. Without words, without tools, without instruments, we create. We belong in the universe the way leaves move with the wind, water travels on the tides, and creatures crawl on the Earth. We speak from nature’s oldest stories and connect to her deepest secrets. We are her voice and she needs to be heard.
We are honored and privileged to be able to do this work on lands that have been cared for by many Indigenous communities, including those of the past, the Tequesta, the present, and the future — including our friends: the Council of the Original Miccosukee Simanolee Nation Aboriginal Peoples, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida.
We encourage you to learn more about their environmental priorities and to do your best to support policies that integrate those conservation principles.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” —Margaret Mead