Water Dance

Washington, DC

October 2016

Charles Bergen Studios was commissioned by Dance Place after an open competition to create the Downspout Art for their Arts Park.  Funded by a Public Art Building Communities Grant that Dance Place received from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities as well as a Community Storm Water Solutions Grant this functional piece of art moves water forty-nine feet laterally and down twenty-five feet across the building facade. Waves, fish, water, watering cans, turtles, and a whale tail tell the story of the water coursing through the downspout underneath and also highlight the dynamism, energy, rhythm, and movement inherent in the art form of dance. The water is collected in rain barrels that are then used to water the community garden in the Dance Place Arts Park in Edgewood, Washington, DC.