FOR THIS EARTH - Screendance Festival

FOR THIS EARTH is an eco-arts festival. Each event is unique. Past festivals have included live dance performances, eco-arts pop-up galleries, beach cleanups, and more. The highlight of each festival is our international Screendance Festival. FOR THIS EARTH is produced by Liquid Spine, a global dance series that seeks to unearth the environmental needs of our water systems through movement, community, and conversation.

Our first festival took place by the ocean in Gloucester, MA, our second in the city of Boston, MA, and our 3rd in Sardinia, Italy. We are pleased to share bring the 4th FOR THIS EARTH Festival to Dean College in the spring of 2026 to celebrate Earth Day.

All performances, visual works, and films utilize the power of movement to illuminate, unearth, and comment on one or more of the following themes:
-The impacts of climate change
-Sustainability
-Ecology
-The beauty of our natural world
-The connection between land, place, and people
-Environmental justice
-Environmental Activism
-Indigenous Wisdom and Storytelling
-Site-Sensitive dance in nature

FOR THIS EARTH seeks to uplift film and movement artists that utilize their mediums to generate awareness, spark change, and pursue global action regarding the protection of our earth, environment, and its flora and fauna.

We accept film short submissions between 2 and 20 minutes in length. Submissions must address one or more of the themes above, while utilizing the power of dance and film to generate awareness, enlighten perspectives, and tell stories. At this time, we are not accepting footage of works made for the stage. Only works made specifically for the lens will be considered. At this time, we cannot consider works with excessive nudity.

We recognize that "dance" is a word with a broad definition. We accept works that utilize the body and its journey through/with space, time, and energy of many movement forms, dance styles, and embodied practices.