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2007
International Dance Day Message
By Sasha Waltz
One dances on birthdays, at weddings, on the
streets, in living rooms, on the stage, behind the scenes. To
communicate joy, sorrow, as ritual and borderline experience.
Dance is a universal language: emissary for a peaceful world, for
equality, tolerance and compassion. Dance teaches us sensibility,
consciousness and to pay attention to the moment.
Dance is the manifestation of our being alive. Dance is transformation.
Dance locates the soul, dance affords the body a spiritual dimension.
Dance enables us to feel our body, to rise above, to go beyond, to be
another body.
To dance is to participate actively in the vibration of the universe.
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International
Dance Day - 29th April
- Background -
In 1982 the International
Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute, UNESCO,
created International Dance Day to be celebrated every year on
the 29th
April.
The date
commemorates the birthday
of Jean-Georges Noverre (1727 - 1810), the creator of modern
ballet.
Every year a message
from a well-known
dance personality is circulated throughout the world. The intention of International
Dance Day and the Message is to bring all Dance together on
this occasion, to celebrate this art form and revel in its
universality,
to cross all political, cultural and ethnic barriers and bring people
together
in peace and friendship with a common language - DANCE.
The International
Dance
Committee of ITI is collaborating with World
Dance
Alliance for the celebration of International
Dance Day.
In 1995, in an effort
to unite dance, the International Dance Committee
entered into a collaborative effort for the celebration of
International Dance Day with World Dance Alliance.
International
Dance Day Message
- Biography
of Sasha Waltz -
Born in 1963 in
Karlsruhe, Germany. She studied dance and choreography
in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she co-founded her company, Sasha
Waltz & Guests, with Jochen Sandig. In 1996 she opened the
critically acclaimed Sophiensaele, a theater she co-founded with
Sandig. In September 1999, Waltz was named one of the artistic
directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where – amongst
others – she created the pieces "Körper" (37th
"Theatertreffen"
Berlin), "S" and "noBody", the choreographic installation "insideout"
and "Impromptus".
In 2005 Sasha Waltz & Guests once again became an
independent company, with Jochen Sandig as artistic director. In
January 2005 her first opera-choreography "Dido & Aeneas" had isst
world premiere at Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin. As chairperson
of the board of trustees of the Radial Stiftung, Sasha Waltz has been
involved in the setting up of a new production and training centre for
Music, Dance and the Visual Arts for Berlin called Radialsystem V,
opened in september 2006.
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Authors of the
International
Dance Day Message 1982 - 2007
- 1982: Henrik NEUBAUER
- 1983: No message issued
- 1984: Yuri GRIGOROVITCH
- 1985: Robert JOFFREY
- 1986: Chetna JALAN
- 1987: Dance Committee Board
- 1988: Robin HOWARD
- 1989: Doris LAINE
- 1990: Merce CUNNINGHAM
- 1991: Hans VAN MANEN
- 1992: Germaine ACOGNY
- 1993: Maguy MARIN
- 1994: Dai AILIAN
- 1995: Murray LOUIS
- 1996: Maïa PLISSETSKAÏA
- 1997: Maurice BEJART
- 1998:
Kazuo OHNO
- 1999:
Mahmoud REDA
- 2000:
Alicia ALONSO, Jirí KYLIÁN, Cyrielle LESUEUR
- 2001:
William FORSYTHE
- 2002: Katherine
DUNHAM
- 2003: Mats
EK
- 2004: Stephen
PAGE
- 2005: Miyako YOSHIDA
- 2006: His Majesty King Norodom
SIHAMONI of Cambodia
- 2007: Sasha WALTZ
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