This Saturday 29 April 2017 will mark International Dance Day, when Theater Federatioun Luxembourg will spread an international message about dance.
On this occasion each year a prominent dance personality is invited to write an international message to spread worldwide. The author this year is the famous American choreographer Trisha Brown, who passed away on 18 March 2017.
International Dance Day, celebrated every year on the anniversary date of the creator of modern ballet Jean Georges Noverre on 29 April, is an occasion to pay tribute to dance and its universality as an art that transcends and crosses political, cultural and ethnic barriers.
Every year, the International Theater Institute (ITI) and its relay in Luxembourg, Theater Federatioun, disseminate the official message of this international day, written by the hand of a well-known contemporary dance icon, with Trisha Brown having written it this year. It is relayed throughout the ITI network and dance organisations around the world.
The message is for dance professionals and dance admirers all over the world. It is published also as a tribute to Trisha Brown who passed away recently. Her message begins: “I became a dancer because of my desire to fly. The transcendence of gravity was always something that moved me. There is no secret meaning in my dances. They are a spiritual exercise in a physical form”.
All details on the International Dance Day and translations of the international message will be published on the ITI website: https://www.iti-worldwide.org/
