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Dance is one of the oldest arts. He helped to express emotions, was part of the rituals, they celebrated all significant events. Each nation had its own dance traditions. Ritual dances were replaced by folk and salon dances, and then the basis of ballet arose – classical dance.
When is Dance Day celebrated in Our Country and the world
International Dance Day is celebrated all over the world 29 April.
history of the holiday
The holiday was established in 1982 at the initiative of the International Dance Council (CID) of UNESCO. The date was proposed by teacher and choreographer Pyotr Gusev. She was not chosen by chance – on April 29, Jean-Georges Noverre, a French choreographer, choreographer and ballet theorist, a reformer, who went down in history as the “father of modern ballet”, was born. He was a student of the choreographer L. Dupre, performed as a dancer and led the ballet troupe at the Drury Lane Theater in London. For a long time, ballet was only part of an opera performance, but Noverre was the first to start staging independent dance performances. He also proposed to rid the dancers of bulky outfits and masks that interfere with the performance of pirouettes. He owns the work “Letters on Dance and Ballets” (1759), in which he outlined the principles of a ballet play. He was embodied with the help of the actual dance and pantomime.
Holiday traditions
Dance is a universal language that unites people of different cultures and nationalities, and International Dance Day is an occasion to pay attention to this art form. It is dedicated to all styles and trends, from ballet to hip-hop.
Of course, the celebration is associated with various dance events: actors put on performances, including street performances, theaters and schools hold open days, people arrange mass dance flash mobs and dance evenings of various styles.
There are also traditional official events, such as the annual address of an outstanding figure in the world of choreography. The purpose of such a performance is to draw attention to the ability of dance to unite people, its beauty, as well as congratulations to colleagues. The ballet dancer Henrik Neubauer was the first to deliver such a message in 1982.
Among others were choreographers Yuri Grigorovich, Robert Joffrey, Hans van Manen, Magi Marin, Maurice Bejart, Jiri Kilian, Mats Ek, Stefan Page, Sasha Waltz, dancer Kazuo Ono (one of the founders of the butoh dance), dancers and choreographers Merce Cunningham, William Forsythe (creator of the improvisation technique), Gladys Agulhas, Akram Khan, Julio Bocca, Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker, Lin Hwai-min, dancer Catherine Dunham, ballerinas Maya Plisetskaya, Alicia Alonso, Miyako Yoshida (Yoshida), Ulyana Lopatkina.
International Dance Day is a time for awards and prizes. In Our Country, on this day, the only professional ballet award “The Soul of Dance” is awarded. It was founded in 1994 by the Ballet magazine together with the Ministry of Culture of the Federation.
Since 1991, there has also been a “Benoit of the Dance”, an annual ballet festival founded by the International Association of Choreographers. The first award ceremony and gala concert took place in 1992 at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
Dance directions
There are a large number of directions and styles. The culture of various peoples is reflected in folklore dances. The history of ballroom dancing dates back to the XNUMXth century.
In a special category, we can distinguish sports ballroom dancing, which are on the verge of dance art and sports.
Social dancing, on the other hand, is done not for competition, but for leisure and the exchange of positive emotions.
Outside of dance studios, on the streets and parties, street dances such as breakdancing emerged.
Separately, it is worth highlighting the ballet, stage dance-performance.
At the beginning of the XNUMXth century, modern dance was born, which rejected traditional ballet forms. A prominent representative of this trend was Isadora Duncan.
Films
If you want to recharge your dance mood, use the films from our selection.
- “Dirty Dancing”, 1987
- “Bar” Coyote Ugly “, 2000
- “Billy Elliot”, 2000
- Moulin Rouge, 2001
- “The last dance is behind me”, 2001
- “Chicago”, 2002
- “Let’s dance”, 2004
- “Step forward”, 2006
- “Keep the rhythm”, 2006
- “Ballet shoes”, 2007
- “Another Cinderella Story”, 2008
- “Street dancing”, 2010
- “Burlesque”, 2010
- “Black Swan”, 2010
- “Sweet Frances”, 2012