Green compass logo with red and yellow spokes between light bulbs extending from both sides. Text reads, "Moving Field Guide, Discover."

Let’s get outside to discover and dance together!

Split screen of people in stretching various outdoor locations and climates. Large square photo at left is flanked by 3 rectangular photos at right.

Dance, nature, and YOU come together in Dance Exchange’s Moving Field Guide Discover. Follow along to explore the environment and discover a deeper connection to the world around you.

You’ll be guided through each video by Choreographer Cassie Meador and a guest environmental educator to discover nature by making a dance together. Then, go outside and record yourself doing the dance we created together! Share your dance via FlipGrid with other movers and makers around the country. 

  • Ranger Mark, a man with a gray beard and glasses looks down at a dried plant that he's holding out in front of him. He's bundled in an orange coat and beanie with snow and bare trees in the background.

    MFG Discover: Winter

    Explore how plants renew in the winter by reproducing and traveling to new places.

    with the U.S. Forest Service

    Start Discovering
  • Cartoon of a boy standing next to a hovering blue tardigrade and a purple rotifer in an aquatic setting.

    MFG Discover: The Microscopic World

    Use your senses to discover some of the smallest living things.

    with Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    Start Discovering
  • Split screen with central image of a woman dancing outdoors, stretching slightly bent arms out to either side like wings. Columns with 3 images on right and left show pairs of adults and children in similar poses.

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Moving Field Guide Discover is brought to you by Dance Exchange. The first two episodes in the series have been created in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service and Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

To purchase a digital copy of the Moving Field Guide book, email emilym@danceexchange.org.

Moving Field Guide Discover Collaborators

Dance Exchange Logo with a tag line below that reads, Gathering, Moving, Making.
Moving Field Guide logo.
U, S Forest Service Department of Agriculture.
National Park Service logo.

In every Moving Field Guide Discover Video…

Concept and Creative Direction by Cassie Meador

Production and Video Direction by Vinny Mwano

Introduction music "Move" written by Steven and Sarah Ramey, mixed by Ryan Hall, and edited by Glenn Davi

Introduction animation by Jenny Fares, Sound Mind Creative

In Moving Field Guide Discover: Winter…

Co-Creative Direction by Elizabeth Johnson Levine

Music for dance by Judson Kimble, www.judsonkimble.com

In Moving Field Guide Discover: The Microscopic World…

Co-Creative Direction by Elizabeth Johnson Levine

Music for dance by Bill Mize, www.billmize.com

Animation by Liam Campbell

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