My technical advisor and I discussed different possibilities on how we could have dancers/actors walk on water, particularly the spirit character, Ariel. We talk about possibly using gym mats. Another option we discussed was to use a tension wire grid. I constructed a version of this for the model using a mesh mosquito screen. I ended up not using it for the actual model due to it being too bulky.

Mesh Mosquito Screen (Tension Wire Grid)
The Result