Save the World Dance Day - Rette den Welttanztag

The World Dance Day in Ulm is an event that takes place in the heart of the city with many students, teachers and choreographers from the city and surrounding areas involved.

It takes place in different parts of the city center in order to spread the power of dance. There are a lot of different styles and genres to be danced from ballet, movement theater, contemporary dance, creative children's dance, improvisation, square dance, flamenco, experimental dance, tango argentino to greek folklore, hip hop....

At the end of each performance block there is a flashmob danced by performers, fans and dance lovers from the whole city. Last year we had 200 people dancing at the same time. They prepare through videos that dansarts ballett centrum Ulm record and special free training courses.

Children from 3 to adults reaching 70, refugees and people from Germany and many other countries, take part of this special day. They prepare throughout the previous months and experience what dancing in front of a broad public is. It also unites the different dance groups, schools and cultures present in the city, making it a multicultural, cross disciplinary and social day.

The "World Dance Day" has been celebrated world wide since 1982 on April 29th, the birthday of French dance pioneer Jean-Georges Noverre. All dance institutions agree that it is important to celebrate the dance on this date to make it aware of the world and to acknowledge it as a cross-border medium.

The Ulm branch of the World Dance Day has been always organized by one of the most active dance schools in Ulm ‘dansarts ballett centrum Ulm’ at Willy-Brandt-Platz. This year Moving Rhizomes e.V. , an artist association focused in using dance to raise awareness of different social causes, decided to support this cause this year. They believe Ulm needs to keep on with this event.

The goal of our project is getting enough financial support to make World Dance Day 2018 happen and keep on with the spirit.

The International Dance Council considers that while dance has been an integral part of human culture throughout its history, it is less prioritized by official establishments in the world. All dance schools and organisations find really important to keep on with these events to encourage people to dance, while expressing the fact that dance is very important for cultural and social integration, physical and mental benefit, and community feeling.

During this event more than 400 students of all ages and conditions take part and benefit from dancing infront of more than 1000 people. This project is not only important for their development as artists and community members, but it also allows them to show what they did during the course to their families, neighbours and any public that comes to the event.

We believe you should support this project for the following reasons:
To allow the 400 students and dance lovers to perform what they have been working on.
To raise awareness of dance as an important activity in society
To highlight the need of prioritizing dance as a changemaker. It is very important for cultural and social integration, it has a proof physical and mental benefit, and it encourages a needed community feeling.
If you believe in dance, thi is your call!

The money will be used to pay production costs like: the bus with the speakers, the Gema rights for the music, the tshirts needed for the dancers, the posters and flyers needed to advertise it, the Stadt Ulm permit … all what is needed to make such a project happen.