Last night something remarkable took place in Ytterjärna, Sweden. Nine girls from YIP danced an hour long dance performance, which they had designed themselves with their choreographer Ediane de Lima. The most remarkable factor though, was that they only started dancing at the beginning of YIP, in August 2009.

Amateurs + Inspiration + Persistence = Professional.

I had the honour to design the scene and lights, and I must say that has been a real privilege! I could contribute 6 years of lighting experience, and all my love and passion for these lovely friends!

Dancing Social Entrepreneurs

Sometimes a social entrepreneur is a dancer on the stage. A flower in the garden. A friend with stage fright. The ability the make the impossible possible, to challenge yourself beyond your limits, and to show the world 150 hours of dedicated passion and inspiring commitment.

My two worlds of passion came together, the performing arts and social change! It is actually one thing.

The World as a Garden:

The World as a Garden - Couples (Photography: Pieter Ploeg - pietradelmundo)

The World as a Garden - Quick (Photography: Pieter Ploeg - pietradelmundo)

The World as a Garden - Afro (Photography: Pieter Ploeg - pietradelmundo)

The performance is a celebration of life and its diversity. Diversity is essential to life and it is in diversity that we find enormous potential for creativity.

The world is a garden and you and we as flowers create it together, intimately connected and supported by our differences.

Direction: Ediane de Lima
Choreography : Ediane de Lima. Phoebe Phillips and dancers
Scenography & Light design : Pieter Ploeg
Stage Technician : Mika Knutsson
Sound : Robin Clancy
Back Stage : Ana Jungen and Lilian Raine
Costumes : Ediane de Lima and dancers
Drummers : Mahlubi Zibi and Stuart Dow
Dancers : Alexandra Gribble, Anatoli Cepeda, Anna Daley, Brenno Kaschner Russo, Dominique Schacherer, Ediane de Lima, Georgia Klap, Johanna Bachmann, Johanna Miklos, Nakyta Grimm and Silvia Angel

What do I do?

pietradelmundo is Pieter Jacobus Daniël Ploeg as social innovator, host, social media consultant, social gathering organiser and backstage event co-creator.

I facilitate participatory change processes and collaborative design sessions. I host and harvest conversations that matter in communities for social innovation and positive social change. In need for change?

I offer to be your guide in the social media landscape on the web. I develop personal and professional websites, blogs, online marketing strategies, social network presence and online collaboration. Want to be on-line to be more off-line?

I organise a wide variety of social gatherings. Conferences, meetings, camps, performances, festivals, theatre productions. I tend to co-create and co-imagine.