NWD Projects is built on the dynamics of collaboration and community engagement. For over a decade, its mission has been to harness the visceral power of dance to raise awareness of our environment and our collective responsibility to care for it. It is unique in engaging dance artists eager to create and perform work in challenging locations, from the mangrove forests of Matheson Hammock to the cypress sloughs of the Everglades, to the sandbar at Biscayne Nature Center.
Videographer Claudio Marcotulli
The company was founded in 2014 to support National Water Dance, a biennial simultaneous event held across the United States that brings together dancers of all levels to promote environmental awareness. This live-streamed event, originating in Miami, has included as many as 35 states and Puerto Rico, reflecting NWD Projects' focus on community and collective engagement.
Photo by Mitchell Zachs
Through collaborations with artists across disciplines, NWD Projects creates new work in performance and film, exploring Miami's rich environmental diversity.
Photo by Mateo Serna Zapata
NWD Projects with Nicole Crooks, organizer of Girl Trek Overtown, continues building bridges through “A Walk Through Our Neighborhoods,” an environmental performance project honoring the historical legacy of Miami's marginalized neighborhoods.
NWD Projects collaborates with Live Arts Miami and Dream in Green through workshops in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, serving students from kindergarten to high school age in the classroom and at natural sites. After a workshop at Biscayne Nature Center, one of the students described their experience this way. "It feels like nature is greeting me gently, welcoming me home."
The mission of NWD Projects Inc. is to promote dance as a vehicle for social change by increasing awareness of environmental and social issues through collaboration with the artistic, educational, and scientific communities. NWD Projects makes use of the internet to create a national community, which offers platforms for educating students and supporting artistic exchange among professional artists while engaging and informing the public. NWD Projects commits to the goal of equity for all by supporting new and diverse ideas from those who challenge us and instituting new structures that can lead us toward a more balanced future.
Photos in Media Gallery by Jay Azze, Mitchell Zachs, Woosler Delisfort, Teekay Kountry, Miana Jun and Lisa Nalven.
Organization name
NWD Projects Inc.
Tax id (EIN)
47-3651723
Mission Category
Arts & Culture
Program Site Locations
All of Miami-Dade County
Annual Operating Budget
$25,000 - $99,999
Primary Population Served
General Population
Address
6820 SW 65 Avenue