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Sidewalk in the Sea is a dance residency and production using movement to explore faith, healing, and authentic storytelling. Your support helps provide training for artists, uplift the DMV community, and make space for people to encounter God through the arts.

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WHY DANCE? WHY NOW?

Dance is one of the oldest ways humans have prayed, celebrated, and healed. Before there were microphones or stages, there were bodies in motion.

We are living in a time where many things are quietly killing our attention and our hope. It is easy to become numb, overwhelmed, or distracted. The arts, and dance in particular, train us to pay attention again rather than be drowned by it. Dance helps us slow down long enough to listen, not just to music, but to God, to our own hearts, and to one another. It gives language depth and allows all who are willing to stay and watch an understanding beyond words. 

We believe dance creates space for the heart to catch its breath again, and to be reminded of the hope that is here. We need spaces where people can encounter God, not just talk about Him. 

Dance wakes people up. Dance reminds us of the truth, freedom in Christ is ours. Honest movement reveals where we have grown numb, and reminds us that freedom is ours in Christ. It is not about perfection; it is about His nearness.

Now is the time to return to reverence for the arts, to see it not as entertainment, but as a sacred space where God meets people.