About WWSD
Over a hundred viewers and dancers joined us online for World Wide Simultaneous Dance on Sunday June 7, 1998, noon Greenwich Mean Time.

Viewers and participants joined World Wide Simultaneous Dance by downloading the iVisit videoconferencing software at www.ivisit.com. Through iVisit, viewers were able to watch dancers dancing at the same time around the world. Dancers performed on iVisit in the U.S., India, South Africa, Hong Kong, Slovenia, and Australia. Dancers also danced at a variety locations off line, including in a park in Durham, North Carolina, USA, a kitchen in Rome, and in Montreal, Canada. Phone lines were down in Buenos Aires but they danced anyway. The event lasted about an hour and a half.

World Wide Simultaneous Dance was conceived and directed by the Boston-based choreographer Laura Knott. The product of two years of research and development, World Wide Simultaneous Dance succeeded in building a community of dancers and viewers who thought it was important and beautiful to know that at some point in our lives, there were people dancing all over the world.

Sponsors: numerous individual donors, The Advanced Technology Group at BoxTop Interactive, Connectix Corporation, Laura Knott Dance Projects.
Major Sponsor and Development Partner: Do While Studio, Boston, MA