daCi Aktionen zum Welttanztag 2011
Auch 2011 waren wir wieder dabei!
Mit regionalen Veranstaltungen und im Rahmen der bundesweiten Tanzwoche mit dem
"TANZMOB - All together NOW" am 4. Mai um 17:30 Uhr auf dem Berliner Alexanderplatz.
Vielen Dank an alle, die mitgemacht haben!
International Dance Day Message 2011
by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
I think dance celebrates what makes us human.
When we dance we use, in a very natural way, the mechanics of our body and all our senses to express joy, sadness, the things we care about.
People have always danced to celebrate the crucial moments of life and our bodies carry the memory of all the possible human experiences.
We can dance alone and we can dance together. We can share what makes us the same, what makes us different from each other.
For me dancing is a way of thinking. Through dance we can embody the most abstract ideas and thus reveal what we cannot see, what we cannot name.
Dance is a link between people, connecting heaven and earth.
We carry the world in our bodies.
I think that ultimately each dance is part of a larger whole, a dance that has no beginning, and no end.
Mehr zu Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker sowie Message in Französisch und Niederländisch (pdf)
The official message for World Dance Day 29 April 2011
BY Prof. Alkis Raftis, President of the International Dance Council CID UNESCO, Paris
For the greater part of the history of mankind, dance took place outdoors. People would gather in forest glades, village squares, churchyards, or on threshing floors, to enjoy dancing for hours on end. Nowadays, dance mostly takes place in ballrooms, clubs, theatres, school halls, studios and discotheques.
This year we propose making a step back towards nature by celebrating World Dance Day in open spaces: streets, squares, parks, stadiums, beaches, parking lots, clearings - anywhere under the sky.
The urge to dance is a natural impulse; dancers worship nature in their way, connecting with the universe and feeling its juices flow into them.
All through the year we teach dance, we rehearse, we perform within four walls. On this special day dedicated to dance, let us mark the difference by practising, teaching or performing for everyone to see. It might be cold and rainy, the floor is certainly not good enough, and the wind takes the music away, but the beauty in those movements and the joy on those faces will brighten the hearts of the spontaneous audience of passers-by.
