Watermark Arts

Conceived and produced by Elaine Colandrea, Artistic Director, Watermark Arts Filmed and edited by Prue Jeffries, Creative Director, Watermark Arts Performed by…

ChiaroScuro, filmed by Prue Jeffries on the limestone landscape of Matera, Italy, is an elemental setting that resonates with my soul. The earth wombs, caves that were once sea beds, cradled Claudia Catani, Naomi Walker and me. Niki Berg's new gallery Threads of Grace weaves generations of embodied experience into “a quilt of global humanity.” Beth Pettengill Riley's poem Human, Being is a timely testament to embracing our role in the earth’s continual rebirth. Enjoy our latest Newsletter

A spontaneous Continuum collaboration that emerged from an afternoon walk in the calanchi of Parco Abbazia di Monteveglio, Italy - responding to the earth below…

Moving Art Cards You are art, Living Art —ELAINE COLANDREA All images © 2019 Prue Jeffries. All Moving Art Card awareness practices © 2019 Elaine Colandrea.

A Moving Inquiry: The Art of Personal Practice by Beth Pettengill Riley and Priscilla Stanton Auchincloss Is it possible to remain connected to the wholeness of embodied experience, as modern life becomes increasingly disembodied, fragmented and fast-moving? Many people hunger for a meaningful movement practice, but struggle to find it. The movement practice offered in this book is an inquiry into the nature of human flourishing. Our lives are made of movements, and bringing an organizing…

Filmed on location in Matera, Southern Italy, a Unesco World Heritage site and European Cultural Capital for 2019. The cave town of Matera is one of the earths oldest…

Filmed on location in Matera, Southern Italy, a Unesco World Heritage site and European Cultural Capital for 2019. The cave town of Matera is one of the earths oldest…

"Expressing more of my heart,"Nicole Sclafani from Robin Becker Dance reveals what the somatic practice of Continuum offers dancers. Produced by Elaine Colan...

How the somatic practice of Continuum awakened Bobbie Ellis to creative writing and performance. From the Watermark Arts series, Continuum & Creativity, prod...

My Body of Water a poem by Noelle Adamo was created into a dance performance piece. Noelle along with dancers Elaine Colandrea, Melanie Noblit - Gambino, Megan…

Canadian dance pioneer & international workshop leader Linda Rabin on the "diamond essence" of dance - Continuum. From the Watermark Arts series, Continuum…

Artist & Continuum teacher Suzanne Wright Crain on the intersection of health, science, creativity and Continuum, with images of her Living Water paintings.…

Interview and performance footage of Continuum teacher, dancer & choreographer Melanie Gambino. 2 min. Melanie is on faculty at The Elemental Nature of the…

JOIN THE WATER BLESSING PROJECT! The Water Blessing Project is an invocation to water and to self-inquiry in service to the whole of existence. We invite Water Blessings to be collectively shared around the world through performance and individual movement meditation practice. See our latest newsletter for all the ways you can participate.

Bringing forward creative expressions and new questions that arise from embodied, fluid, somatic exploration is our pleasure and purpose at Watermark Arts. As the decade comes to a close, we wish you quiet repose as well as unbridled joy.

Coming Events The Elemental Nature of the Body: Somatic Movement Summit V July 19th to 24th, 2020, Omega Institute Rhinebeck, NY Choosing a path of opening in the face of global crisis and personal adversity begins a journey inward to connect with the most primordial movements of nature and with the elemental self to reveal our inherent biological capacity for innovation. Through the somatic awareness practice of Continuum, this restorative retreat investigates the vital chemistry of all…