Community Water Dance at 10 a.m. Saturday in Post Falls

A free Community Water Dance performance will be from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the grand pavilion in Q'emiln Park, 12201 W. Parkway Drive, Post Falls.

Hosted by Ripple Dance Company, the performance will celebrate the conservation of water with dance, spoken word, music and more. The tagline is: "Clean Water for Everyone."

"We make our dances to set a ripple in effect," said Ripple artistic director and owner Crystal Bain, who also teaches fourth grade at Sorensen Magnet School of the Arts and Humanities. "This is our first chance to make a ripple in our community, to take a moment to pay attention to the water in our area and what we can do to help our water."

Bain is organizing the event as part of her master's degree thesis in dance education, "Advocacy with Dance." She is working on a curriculum that integrates dance into normal core standards so students can more deeply understand those standards, Bain said. 

"They’re able to advocate for something using movement," she said. "To give them a platform to do that, I was like, 'What's something we all care about?' We all care about water, that’s an essential thing we all need. How can we advocate for water in our community?"

Many of Bain's Sorensen students will perform, as well as members of the Ripple Dance team. The event will culminate with a large flash mob-type performance.

"It’s Ripple’s first go at making an annual water awareness event for our community," Bain said.

    Sorensen Magnet School of the Arts and Humanities students practice for the upcoming Community Water Dance that will be Saturday at Q'emiln Park in Post Falls. Clockwise, from left: Ellie Pemberton, Keeva Rumsey, Jayde Silkman and Eleanor Casile.