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 10th 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/SUgmWj9uSsxxCpG28  

 

**Deadline to Submit: Friday, August 29th, 2025, at 11:59 PM EST

 

Please include:

Your name, as you would like it to appear in the video

Your Instagram to be tagged in the IGTV video

Your location (City, State/Region, Country)

A few short sentences about yourself

 

Check out our most recent GDC video on YouTube: GDC December 2024: Celebration!: https://youtu.be/H4Iw4jdfAro?si=eG7qSCNl0_4CjAba 

 

*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, and as of December 21, 2024, editions 1-9 featured over 618 dancers from 36 countries, and 22 U.S. states.  The December 2024 (part 9, theme: celebration) broadcast featured 112 dancers, musicians, and performing artists from 5 countries: Bangladesh, Canada, Greece, Switzerland, and the United States, and 8 US states: Alabama, California, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Pennsylvania.

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; 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.