13 August 2024
2 September 2024
3 August 2024
2 September 2024
31 August 2024
2 September 2024
31 August 2024
23 August 2024
22 August 2024
17 January 2023
13 August 2024
10 August 2024
8 August 2024
7 August 2024
8 August 2024
27 July 2024
3 August 2024
17 July 2024
8 July 2024
1 June 2024
30 May 2024
16 May 2024
15 April 2024
29 April 2024
9 April 2024
International Dance Day is aimed at attracting attention to the art of dance, and the official message is sent to over 100,000 dance professionals around the world, and translated into dozens of languages.
Lemi Ponifasio, who founded the MAU company, and who is also a stage director, dancer and artist, said he wrote the message in the form of a karakia, or prayer.
“Being from this part of the world, it was important to me that our cutural perspective or the sense of the spirit of this place comes through in that message”, he said.
“You know dance is many, many things to the world.”
Lemi Ponifasio said he wrote his message with the perspective that no one has the final say on what dance is.
He will deliver the message at La Villette Theatre in Paris on April 29, where his company MAU will also perform.
- RNZI