2020 is a year with even more challenges for the performing arts community all over the world.

Almost all the Centres of ITI are not able to celebrate International Dance Day with an event because of the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus. Therefore, the General Secretariat Team of ITI initiates that all the members and friends celebrate International Dance Day 2020 - online.
We have received a lot message reading videos from ITI Centre in the country’s language, and other videos to share peoples’ enthusiasm, wishes for the future theatre and so on.

Let’s be united in this action for the benefit of each and everybody who loves, theatre and shares our values for a culturally rich and peaceful world.

Video from Gregory Vuyani MAQOMA, South Africa, International Dance Day 2020 Message Author

International Dance Day Message Reading Videos

International Dance Day 2020 Message Video from Gregory Vuyani MAQOMA, South Africa

Message read in French from Centre LaTermitière

Message read in Spanish from ITI Mexico Centre
World Theatre Day message read in Spanish

Message read in Spanish by students of the Teaching program in Performing arts of Antonio Nariño University from Bogotá - Colombia, a member of Ret Colombia

Message read in Macedonian by Sotir Trajkov (theater critic and journalist)

International Dance Day 2020 Brochure

International Dance Day 2020 Brochure in English, double pages

International Dance Day 2020 Brochure in English, single pages

International Dance Day 2020 Brochure in French, double pages

International Dance Day 2020 Brochure in French, single pages

Happy International Dance Day Videos

Video “Dansezchezvous!” share by Collectif Guerilla Girls from Clermont-Ferrand, FRANCE
Virtual Gala video from Consejo Argentino de la Danza
Czech Dance in Quarantine from The Czech Centre of ITI
Video "Stay Home" from Sarajevo National Theater, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Children dance video from PROTANCY, Russia
Community dance video from RSVP (Red Sandstone Varied Productions)
Video “Rosas” from l'ASTA (Académie Supérieure de Théâtre d'Angers) and CNDC (Centre National de Danse Contemporaine), France
Video from Associazione Italiana Giovani per l'UNESCO
Video Compilation of Goma Dance Festival (2017 - 2019) in Goma, Democratic Republic Congo
Video from Wroclaw Mime Theatre
Video from National Dance Company Wales
Video ”Lockdown” from students from Barcelona, Spain
Video from Tangent in Bucharest, Romania
Video “Genius Loci” by Fabio Tolledi, from Instituto Universitario de Danza Alicia Alonso Urjc
Video “Danzanemia 2020”from Instituto Universitario de Danza Alicia Alonso Urjc
Video by Gladys Agulhas, Dalene Maarsdorp, Mbali Myaka, and Smangaliso Ngwenya
Video from Lukas Zuschlag from Slovene National Ballet Ensemble
Video “abraSOS” from Marianela Boán, Cuba, International Dance Day 2018 Message Author
Video Performance “Father” from Akram Khan, Bangladesh, WDAAP (World Dance Alliance - Asian Pacific)
Video from Maitreyee Pahari, India, WDAAP (World Dance Alliance - Asian Pacific)
Video from KIM Geung Soo, Korea, WDAK (World Dance Alliance Korea)
Message from ITI Cuban Center
Video by Sreejith TR from Associate of Trinity college London, Member of International Dance Council
Message in Macedonian by Aleksandar Hadzimanov (dancer, dance educator, choreographer, MOB Skopje)
Video from a Dance Studio in Burgas, Bulgaria
Video message and performance “ What Moves Us” by TARGET, Dance Info Finland
Video “Kathak Classical Dance - Tanushree Gupta part 1” from Tania Kopytko, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Video “Kathak Classical Dance - Tanushree Gupta part 2” from Tania Kopytko, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Video “The Bubble dance” from Tania Kopytko, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Video from ITI Ghana Centre
Video “And Still We Rise!” from Sheema Kermani and dance group Tehrik-e-Niswan, Karachi, Pakistan
Video from Marianela Boán, Cuba, International Dance Day 2018 Message Author
Video from Salia SANOU, Burkina Faso, International Dance Day 2018 Message Author
Video from INTiP (International Network Theatre in Prison), “Intangout” made with the prisoners of Brindisi prison
Video from INTiP (International Network Theatre in Prison), “My Shout” made in the prison of Rovigo
Video "APRIL DANCE” made by IAPAR and Indian Centre of ITI
Video from Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo, Italy
Video from the performing arts students of Tauranga Girl's College, New Zealand
Video "Danse Macabre" by Alessandro Amaducci & Caterina Genta
Video “Staying Home, Staying Connected” from Edelweiss Dance Group, Cairns
Video by Sylvia Glasser from Moving into Dance, South Africa
Encouragement video by Jun Hong Jo, Area Vice-Presidents from World Dance Alliance
Encouragement video by Sergey Shub, General Director from Baltic House Theatre-Festival from St Petersburg, Russia
Video shared by Ailsa McPhee, dancer, teacher
Video shared by Consejo Argentino de la Danza, Partner Organization of ITI
Precipitato - The Body Never Lies share from Kozani High School of Arts
Video shared by Dorothea Nicolai
Video shared by I.L.Caragiale National University of Theater and Cinematographic Art, Bucharest, Romania
Video shared by Korean Dance Group
Drying a tutu in the sunshine Dorothea Nicolai

Happy International Dance Day Messages

Message from ITI Czech Centre
Message by JUAN PABLO LEDO from Argentina
Message from Georgette Gebara

Message from UNESCO Club Vienna, ResiliArt: Artists and Creativity beyond Crisis

Online Activities

Dansezchezvous! Online collective dance activity
Hosted by Collectif Guerilla Girls
29 Apr at 18:00 – 3 May at 21:00

“tańczMY” Action by the Institute of Music and Dance
Virtual Dance Gala, organize by the Argentina Dance Council
The Spring of Hope and the Day of Dance
Online Interview - to watch on International Dance Day.
Octavian Saiu in dialogue with Jaroslaw Fret, Noa Wertheim and Tobias Biancone.
Wednesday, 29 April 2020 - 12:30 Paris Time, Language: English
>>Click here to read more

Website about Alicia Alonso
Prepared by the Alicia Alonso University Dance Institute / The Spanish Centre of ITI
Langauges: English and Spanish.

Media

Article for today's International Dance Day from Natalia Braun

Interview with Ana Jung, Serbian Dancer about International Dance Day and Message of Gregory MAQOMA

“International Dance Day 2020” Articles from WDAAP (World Dance Alliance - Asian Pacific)

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