Stream, the Dublin Art Council's latest outdoor dance project, has many meanings.

The September performance seeks to make people think about their relationship to nature, and will also be streamed live online for the world.

The annual contemporary dance project will this year feature the choreography of Robin Prichard, an assistant professor of dance at the University of Akron.

"Robin was chosen after we got some recommendations from the Ohio Dance Board on somebody who could work with technology in terms of live streaming," said David Guion, DAC executive director.

Dancing has been part of Prichard's life for several years.

"I've been dancing since I was a kid," she said.

"I was one of those people that my mom put me in dance class. She had no idea I would take to it the way I did."

Prichard danced professionally for 15 years and did her first professional choreography in 1996.

Even though she's done choreography in New York, Los Angeles and Sydney, Australia, the DAC site that boasts a riverside and large hill is a new experience.

"It's a large site," Prichard said. "There are lots of different areas I'm using ... this piece is specifically made for this site."

The site also served as a muse for the performance.

"I would say the hill is a large inspiration," Prichard said.

"For the past two years this has been called Gravity's Ripple," she said.

"I'm really inspired by the idea of gravity and the relationship to the individual.

"I got inspiration from nature and the water. I like the idea of a landslide or a flash flood moving down the hill," Prichard said.

"It's something that starts really slow and as it moves down the hill, gets larger."

The Pacific Garbage Patch, a large patch of marine litter in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, also made its way into Prichard's choreography.

"I'm dealing with how we use our resources and the idea of human frailty and then whether we're going to regret that in the future," she said.

The 40-minute performance is divided into three different sections and will feature 12 dancers -- eight from the University of Akron and five from Ohio State University.

"The first section is an opening invocation that, perhaps, invites the audience into the site and into the project," Prichard said.

The project will also include a residency at two Columbus schools and master classes at Ohio colleges.

"Each Gravity's Ripple series has done master classes," Guion said.

"It just makes for a more powerful experience, not just for attendees but the dancers so they get to work in a different environment outside the university," he said.

The dress rehearsal for Stream is slated for 11 a.m. Sept. 14 at the Dublin Arts Council, 7125 Riverside Drive. The rehearsal is free and open to the public.

The free performances of Stream are at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 14-15.

All performances will be streamed live online at http://dance.osu.edu/stream.

For more information, look online at dublinarts.org.