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Dance Anywhere/Everywhere
by San Francisco Classical Voice
The idea is simple, a bit funny, and altogether heroic: Thousands of people around the world act like a flashmob, and all start dancing at the same time. The origin of “Dance Anywhere,” however, antedates newfangled Web activation of joint activities. This is the seventh annual event, and you don’t need text messaging: Just look at the clock (or you smart phone, whatever). When both the big and the little hands hit 12 …
On March 18, when it’s noon on the West Coast, it’s 3 p.m. on the East Coast, and 8 p.m. in Paris, Rome, etc. Wherever you are, that’s the time to start dancing. Officially called the Seventh Annual Conceptual Public Art Performance Piece, “Dance Anywhere” is a global call for people everywhere to participate in the project.
The creator of the event, Beth Fein, says, “This is an open invitation to all: to stop and dance wherever they will be. What is so wonderful about ‘dance anywhere’ is that it is a way for everyone, anywhere, to be creative to pause in their busy lives and dance with the whole world.”
Meaning to “dissolve the line that often separates art and dance from our daily lives,” the invitation is for dancing on or off a stage: “Our immediate environment is our stage and we should all stop to dance as a worldwide community and momentarily transform our familiar and ordinary locations.”
A sampling of 2011 Bay Area locations: the 16th Street Mission BART station, the Legion of Honor, SFMOMA, Berkeley Art Museum, The Oakland Museum of California, and the Frank Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland.”
