Calling Movers & Dancers Everywhere: Join Global Dance Circle for Social Change!
Company:
Mark DeGarmo Dance
Mark DeGarmo Dance is seeking 10-second long video submissions from anyone (artists of any discipline, non-artists, dancers or non-dancers) who wants to move and share their expression! All submissions will be compiled into one final Global Dance Circle video and shared on social media! Our 11th Global Dance Circle video will be shared on December 21st (the winter solstice) with the theme: “Celebration.”
Professional and recreational dancers are all invited to submit a clip. To be included in MDD’s next “Global Dance Circle for Social Change” video, click here to complete the Google Form:
https://forms.gle/Q1E9EXJUnZ2E8pPA9
**Deadline to Submit: Saturday, October 17th, 2026 at 11:59 PM
You will be asked to include:
Your name, as you would like it to appear in the video
Your Instagram to be tagged in the Instagram Reel video
Your location (City, State/Region, Country)
A few short sentences about yourself
The 10-second video **Must be a public view link
Check out our most recent GDC video on YouTube: GDC December 2025: Celebration!
https://youtu.be/RJwx8zfjuYI?si=lN1NKUEw5V52nLGG
*Please note: Mark DeGarmo Dance has the ultimate decision of what is included in the final video. By submitting your video to Mark DeGarmo Dance, you are agreeing to: grant MDD all permissions to use, reproduce and publish said video indefinitely; to alter the same without restrictions; and to copyright the same. You also release MDD and its board of directors, officers, employees, legal representatives, and assigns from any and all such claims, actions, and liability relating to its use of said creative work, photographs, videotapes, and/or likeness. By submitting a clip, you also agree to be added to the MDD email list, from which you may unsubscribe at any time.
About Global Dance Circle for Social Change
Global Dance Circle for Social Change programming launched after Virtual Dance for Dance for Social Change 2020. MDD has produced and presented 10 parts from June 2020 (inaugural summer solstice broadcast) to December 2025 (winter solstice broadcast). GDC has featured 805 dancers from 41 countries, 25 US states, 18 time zones, and 6 continents. The December 2025 (part 10, theme: celebration) broadcast featured 153 dancers, musicians, and performing artists from 12 countries: Australia, Cameroon, Canada, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Estonia, India, Lesotho, Mexico, Serbia, Spain, USA, and Zimbabwe; 12 US states: Arizona, California, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Pennsylvania; 12 time zones, and 5 continents.
Our programs are supported, in part, by private and public funds from American Online Giving Foundation; Jody and John Arnhold; Benevity; Frances and Benjamin Benenson Foundation; Bernheim Foundation; Blackbaud Giving Fund; Lisa and Dick Cashin; PJ and Dawn Dearden; Rev. Dr. Lindley DeGarmo and Sarah Finlayson; Marianne Egri and David Thomas; Friends of Mark DeGarmo Dance; Jill Ganey; The Harkness Foundation for Dance; Lara and Darius Mehraban; The Kyle J. Mulrooney Foundation; Mental Insight Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; Network for Good; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York City Department of Education; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; Lindsay O'Reilly; PwC Charitable Foundation; Religious Society of Friends; The Rothfeld Family Foundation; Ruth and Seymour Klein Foundation; and Barbara Sherman.
