About Earthdance
The Earthdance Global Festival for Peace is the world’s largest music and dance event for peace.
Earthdance sets the standard for conscious transformational gatherings, bridging the worlds of peace-making and music culture, and pioneering the concepts of multi-location events and synchronized mediation-prayer practice.
Earthdance is aligned with International Peace Day, a global holiday sanctioned by the United Nations and observed annually on September 21. Every year on the same weekend, Earthdance features hundreds of musicians, DJs, speakers, and dancers at local celebrations and festivals and events around the world. Since the first Earthdance festival in 1997, hundreds of events have been held in over eighty countries.
The pinnacle of each Earthdance festival is the global synchronized “Prayer for Peace,” a profound rite that unites our international, cross-generational tribe in a powerful affirmation of peace. In 2020, Earthdance festivals worldwide went virtual with the Earthdance.TV platform. Our Global Link-Up of the Prayer for Peace music track, experienced simultaneously worldwide, is a deeply moving shared intention for peace.
“Earthdance is a world of individuals, communities, and businesses working and playing together, creating a culture of peace through music and dance, global synchronicity, and social activism. We are the celebratory space, asserting that peace is about living fully and thriving even more than it is about protesting war, as important as those efforts are. More than just an epic party, Earthdance is a flash forward to a peaceful future.”
-Matt Marshall, Earthdance CEO
Earthdance International is a California 501c3 non-profit tax-exempt organization that is financially supported by the people who produce and participate in the Earthdance global event.
The organization coordinates the annual Earthdance International music and dance festival for peace, and the global synchronized link-up, when the Prayer for Peace music track and affirmation is played at each event around the world, and online.
Now in its 29th year, Earthdance International has supported the work of peace, sustainability, and social justice charities in many countries, via producers and communities that participate in the global event, by generating awareness, donations, and contributing 50% of local event profits.
Earthdance also conducts awareness campaigns related to its annual global event themes. This year’s Earthdance theme is “The Heart & Beat of Humanity”.
Previous themes include:
2025 – Dancing Robots: We Come in Peace
2024 – E=MC2: Evoluting equals Mass Consciousness
2023 – Evoluting thru Love: Laugh, Sing, Dance.
2022 – Evoluting thru Love: Laugh, Sing, Dance.
2021 – Peace – It’s Time!
2020 – Vision 2020: Co-Manifestival
2019 – Collective Intelligence
2018 – Plant Peace, Plant __________
2017 – Re-Evolution
2016 – Global Shift
2015 – Awakening
2014 – Transformation
2013 – Community
2012 – Woman
2011 – Trees
2010 – Honoring Our Traditions
2009 – Blessing the Children
2008 – Unity In Diversity
2007 – Global Om for Healing of the Planetary Waters
2006 – International Gathering of Elders
2005 – Global Dance Festival for Planetary Peace
2004 – Drums for Peace (Guinness World Record for largest drum circle with Mickey Hart)
2003 – United Beats of Peace
Please Donate
Earthdance International is supported by contributions from the producers of Earthdance events each September, and by your generous donations which allow our small mostly volunteer team to spread the message of peace and coordinate the global synchronized meditation. Your donations have an impact, and we greatly appreciate them!
Donations are accepted through PayPal.
Earthdance is a world of communities, working and playing together to create a culture of peace, through music and dance events, synchronized global link-ups, and social activism. More than just an epic party, Earthdance is a flash forward to a peaceful future.
The history of Earthdance lives through the people who were there…
…the smiling faces and hugs in photos, the bouncing and swirling dancers in videos, the ever spinning DJs, the multitude of artists and performers, the families who put the whole thing together, year after year, and our charities, keeping it all real. Earthdance has been a journey of celebration, service, beauty, struggle, ecstasy, and love, beyond words.
The Earthdance story begins in 1996, when London-based musician and event producer Chris Deckker (Medicine Drum, Return To The Source) had a vision – in the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt – of a synchronized, multi-location psytrance dance party. October 4th, 1997 – The first Earthdance Planetary Dance Party for Peace materialized – with 22 locations in 18 countries, in support of Tibet. In 1999, Earthdance moved its base to San Francisco, aligned its mission with the annual United Nations Peace Day, and began partnering with other international peace events, organizations, and companies. In 2001, the Earthdance International non-profit organization was formed to coordinate the annual charity festival. And in 2003, the Earthdance Global for-profit company was formed by Reavis Daniel Moore, Matthew Marshall, and Sandra Hay to develop year-round Earthdance projects, and provide the primary support for the non-profit organization and festival.
From its early psy-rave roots, Earthdance has grown to become one of the largest globally synchronized music and dance events, having been held in over 1,000 locations in 80 countries. In 2020, the 24th annual Earthdance Global Peace Party will include numerous public events, countless private parties, and high social media activity across multiple platforms.
The annual Earthdance Global Peace Party is a wild organic mix of events.
Outdoor trance parties, destination music festivals, gatherings in parks, events in public spaces, concerts, club nights, nature campouts, flash mobs, and house parties, all connected online via social networks. Electronic dance music, beats, and DJs are the foundation of most Earthdance events. But the music and performance genres represented are as diverse as the locations. From psytrance to neo-soul, dubstep to world music, fire spinning to belly dancing, the Earthdance vibe is vividly eclectic and fun. Earthdance is also a massive synchronicity generator, with all the connections and shared experiences made at Earthdance events around the world, over so many years.
All Earthdance events join in a synchronized Global Link-Up & Prayer for Peace.
The Global Link-Up and playing of the Prayer for Peace music track, at the same time at all locations, is a profound moment of shared intention for peace. The link-up is an affirmation of peace on all levels – personal, family, community, nations, and peace with the Earth itself.
Earthdance is aligned with the UN International Day of Peace that takes place on September 21 each year.
The United Nations Peace Day is devoted to commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace and non-violence, both within and among all nations and peoples. Every Earthdance event partners with a local peace, sustainability, or social justice charity, promoting the organization, featuring them at events, and donating 50% of event profits to support their work.
