With Its Junior Scene, Fluid Movement is Forging Intergenerational Connections

“Promoting the idea of a love of community, art, and your body is a really powerful thing for women to pass on. Some of these girls will go on to be directors for our scenes in the coming years, and they’ll eventually grow into being some of our adult swimmers. It’s beautiful to see.” 

—Kelly Quinn, Baltimore Magazine, July 2022

With good humor and a glittery fatberg, Fluid Movement brings “infrastructure ballet” to Baltimore

“Our tagline is ‘We are Fluid Movement, and so are you. We should also say, ‘We are infrastructure, and so are you.”

—Barbara Wilgus, Baltimore Brew, July 2022

Traditions: Fluid Movement (Video)

“There’s magic in Fluid Movement and in performance art”

—Valarie Perez-Schere, July 2019

Here For It #134

“This event checked all of my boxes! Ever since Miss Piggy rose from the water with a crown of lit sparklers in The Great Muppet Caper while Charles Grodin belted for his life, I have been totally sold on water ballet, but this is the first time for me to see one live. I felt renewed and affirmed.”

—R. Eric Thomas, Here For It #134, July 2019

Fluid Movement: FM20

"Venture outside your comfort zone, support Bmore arts and see something different this summer. Fluid Movement’s The Water Ballet was a labor of love, fun, kick ass music and inclusion."

—B.I.T.R. Sisters, July 2019

Fluid Movement: The Water Ballet at Fluid Movement

“Legs pierced out of the water only so long as their neighbors, and human forms faded in and out of the surface, displaying unknown hours of crafting a show, before our eyes, in only a few minutes.”

—Joseph R. Kennedy, Theatre Bloom, July 2019

FLUID MOVEMENT, BALTIMORE’S WATER BALLET AND PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE, TURNS TWENTY

“Members have come and gone, but the mission remains the same: empower people to be themselves, make art, and forge new connections across the city.”

—Suzy Kopf, BmoreArt Journal of Art + Ideas: Issue 07, July 2019

FLUID MOVEMENT CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF COMMUNITY BUILDING AND RADICAL ACCEPTANCE

“This aquatic troupe has become a hometown staple for sparking joy in audiences and drawing together an eclectic crowd of Baltimoreans, but what makes it most special is that it has created a space for creatives of every cloth—countless swimmers, dancers, performers, artists, and everyday citizens who have found a home among the sequins and swim caps of Fluid Movement. This year, their beloved summer water ballet is inspired by their own story, which happens to be an interesting one.”

—Christine Jackson, Baltimore Magazine, July 2019