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International Dance Day To Be Celebrated For the Third Time in the Czech Republic, For the 30th Time All Over the World

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From the early morning hours on April 29, dancing at venues all over the Czech Republic starts. The last Sunday of April, dance will be celebrated all over the world for the thirtieth time, in our country the tradition was established by the initiative Vision of Dance in 2010 and last year Czech dance celebrations were one of the most busy ones. This year about 50 dance schools, studios, theatres and companies in 28 Czech and Moravian towns are involved. The programme is very diverse, for instance Prague dance studios Naboso, Caminito, InDance, Flamenkería, The Centre for tap dancing and dance Fourtaps give lessons of Argentine tango, tap dance, Egyptian belly dance, ballet, Spanish flamenco and popular Zumba.
"We are thrilled to see the growing interest in collective celebration of dance, the part of which are individual towns with their own programme that they themselves organize," says the coordinator of the event Petra Kašparová of The Vision of Dance.
Company Dance2XS suggested a theme for the joint choreography flashbomb that anyone can rehearse via Facebook and dance with others on the 29th April. In Prague, the performance takes place at 2 pm on the piazzetta of the National Theatre. Actress and performer Anna Polívková will host the programme full of swing rhythms, flamenco, tap dancing and other dance genres.
In the evening, several dance performances take place in Prague too, for instance company VerTeDance perform the choreography Simulante bande – a dialogue between a healthy and a physically handicapped man – at Archa theatre. Studio Alta will hold an evening programme TO BUDE TANEC! with actresses Taťána Medvecká and Anna Polívková dancing in short pieces describing their view of dance. In the park on Vítkov hill close to the Military History Institute you can then watch a site-specific project Suna no onna by company Nanohach, beginning at 9 pm.
In cooperation with Auto*mat a detailed map of dance in Prague has been created with all the venues participating in the event. The map is available at www.vizetance.cz as well as all locations concerned.

The author of the Proclamation to the International Dance Day is a prominent contemporary Belgian dancer and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, who in collaboration with Tibetan monks created a unique production Sutra, performed at Tanec Praha festival last year: Celebrate the Never-ending Choreography of Life "Through time, through the ages, what endures is mostly art. Art seems to be everything humankind leaves to its heirs – whether through buildings or books or paintings or music. Or movement, or dance. In that sense, I think of dance as the most current, the most up-to-date history lesson, as it is in a constant relationship with its most recent past and can only happen in the present. Dance also, somehow, does not acknowledge borders in the same way as many other arts. Even when certain styles try to limit themselves or work within a frame; the movement of life, its choreography and its need for flux: these take over very quickly, allowing certain styles to mingle with other. Everything engages with everything, naturally, and dance settles only in the space it belongs to — that of the everchanging present. I believe that dance may be one of the most honest forms of expression for us to cherish: because when people dance, whether in a ballet performance, a hip-hop battle, an underground contemporary show or just in a discotheque, cutting loose, there are seldom any lies deployed, any masks worn. People reflect each other constantly, but when they dance, perhaps what they reflect most is that moment of honesty. By moving like other people, by moving with other people and by watching them move, we can best feel their emotions, think their thoughts and connect to their energy. It is, perhaps, then that we can get to know and understand them clearly. I like to think of a dance performance as a celebration of co-existence, a way to give and make space and time for each other. We tend to forget this, but the underlying beauty in a performance is that it is primarily the convergence of a mass of people, seated one next to the other, all sharing the same moment. There is nothing private about it; a performance is an extremely social experience. All of us assembled for this ritual, which is our bond with the performance, our bond with the same present. And so, in 2012, I wish everyone lots of dance. Not to forget all their problems of 2011, but on the contrary, to tackle them creatively, to dance around them, to find a way to engage with each other and the world, to engage with life as part of its neverending choreography. Dance to find honesty and to transmit, to reflect and to celebrate it." Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Since 2010, International Dance Day celebrations have been coordinated throughout the country by Vision of Dance – a national initiative for the promotion of contemporary dance and interdisciplinary arts. More info at www.vizetance.cz/den-tance

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