The Dubai Fountain

This guide to the Dubai Fountain follows three Disney Imagineers who left the studio in 1983 convinced that water could move like a dancer, and the company they built, WET, that spent two decades proving it. It centers on Emaar Properties' eighteen-month deadline to build the fountain on Burj Khalifa Lake, and how Mark Fuller's team decided the water itself, not the tower behind it, would carry the show. Watch for the pause between movements, when the jets fall silent before the next cue lands.