Mark DeGarmo Dance launched its Global Dance Circle for Social Change video series during the COVID-19 pandemic as a compassionate NYC and global dance and arts leader in order to metaphorically hold hands around the Earth with diverse global professional and amateur dance practitioners and communities. This solidarity reached across borders, boundaries, languages, and politics. To celebrate the winter solstice and worldwide dance and movement artists contributing to positive social change through dance, Mark DeGarmo Dance will premiere its Global Dance Circle for Social Change, Part 10: Celebration! on Sunday, December 21, 2025.  MDD includes videotaped contributions from 12 countries, 12 U.S. states, and 12 time zones, including over 153 artists. The spirit of celebration is reflected in 10-second movement contributions performed in diverse environments. Global Dance Circle for Social Change, Part 10: Celebration! will be available free-of-charge starting on Sunday, December 21 on Mark DeGarmo Dance’s social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Vimeo, and website. 

MDD’s open-access short video features professional and recreational dancers and creative movers from around the world, including Australia, Cameroon, Canada, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Estonia, India, Lesotho, Mexico, Serbia, Spain, United States of America, and Zimbabwe, as well as, Arizona, California, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. The video features a diverse range of dynamic performances, including a NYC ice dance theater, a dance academy in Serbia, an expressive female hip-hop dancer in Central Africa, and various dances incorporating traditional Indigenous movement and other captivating scenes and environments. 

The 40 contributors to Global Dance Circle for Social Change Part 10: Celebration! Include: Elie Akouri (The Cedars of Lebanon Folkloric Group, Sydney, Australia); ShaeLynn Bordyschuk (Alberta, Canada); Denaisha C. (Brooklyn, NY); Gavin Caulfield (Frankford, DE); Nick M. Daniels (Pittsburgh, PA); Mala Desai (Queens, NY); Sudeshna Dey (West Bengal, India); DOUGLAS DUNN + DANCERS (New York, NY); Ilene Echavarria (Brooklyn, NY); Serges ESSOMBO EWANE (Hyastville, MD); Karla Florez (Queens, NY); Lizzy Fryer (Port Matilda, PA); Andrea Carrion Garcia (Madrid, Spain); Mita Ghosal (Pittsburgh, PA); Ice Theatre of New York (New York, NY); Eva Julietta (New York, NY); May Kesler (Chevy Chase, MD); Marija Krtolica (Brooklyn, NY); Linnot Laimbo & Hwamanda Dance Troupe (Harare, Zimbabwe); Jojo Levin (Indianapolis, IN); Mboko Lopiki (Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo); Barbara Mahler (Queens, NY); ADJI ADJI Charlotte Manuella (Yaoundé, Cameroon); Nicole Mayer (Springfield, MO); Negesti McIntosh (Brooklyn, NY); Megan J. Minturn (Brooklyn, NY); Tess Moayedi (Portland, OR); Keivonte Newbell (Jersey City, NJ); Yuri Ogasawara (New York, NY); Gordana Orescanin (Novi Sad, Serbia); Christian Quayson (Brockport, NY); Chezale Rodriguez (Tucson, AZ); “The Scrubulators” (Boston, MA); Kinding Sindaw (Queens, NY); Snap Dance Project (Sun Valley, NV); Marcelo Solis (Lafayette, CA); Sothokids Culture Agency (Mazenod, Lesotho); Kreete Tarmo (Harjumaa, Estonia); Henry Torres-Blanco (Baja California, Mexico);  Voices Of Kilimanjaro (Dover Plains, NY); Lisa Anita Wegner (Ontario, Canada). 

Since its launch in 2020 to mitigate the effects of the global pandemic on human health and well-being by connecting a global community of dancing people, MDD’s Global Dance Circle for Social Changes has in 10 broadcasts secured the participation of over 805 dancers from 41 countries, 25 U.S. states, and 17  time zones. In March 2026, Mark DeGarmo Dance will celebrate its 39th anniversary as a leading New York City nonprofit dance organization and 44th anniversary as a dance company promoting education, performance, and intercultural community-building. President Barack Obama commended Dr. DeGarmo and MDD for “your service to your community and the nation.” The National Endowment for the Arts deemed MDD’s Partnerships in Literacy through Dance & Creativity program designed for historically under-resourced, geographically isolated, disenfranchised, and marginalized  NYC public elementary students “a national model.” Mark DeGarmo Dance’s evidence-based Partnerships in Literacy through Dance & Creativity program annually reaches up to 1,000 students and 200 teachers across NYC.

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.