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Swedish Dance Committee
The Swedish Dance Committee, established in 1985 and a part of the Swedish Centre for the International Theatre Institute, is a national forum for Swedish dance. We receive an annual grant from the National Council of Cultural Affairs and employ an executive secretary.
The Dance Committee unites the professional dance field in Sweden – our members are institutions, independent dance companies, venues, organizations and educational institutions among others. The members are represented in the Dance Committee´s council, which appoints a chairman and a working committee. The Dance Committee is represented in the board of the Swedish Centre of the ITI, the Education Committee and the International Dance Committee, ITI-UNESCO.
Our current work includes:
• Be conversation- and collaboration partner in matters of common interest concerning Swedish dance.
• Cover and establish the dance in cultural policy connections.
• Circulate current information about Swedish dance.
• Promote further contact with the dancefield in the Nordic countries and internationally.
In 1998 we initiated an annual Dance all over the country to promote the art of dance on the International Dance Day April 29th.
From 2001 we are responsible for the Swedish Dance Biennial.
The Swedish Dance Committee has a sub-committee for dance medicine. The subcommittee works for the creation of a Swedish centre for dance medicine, organize seminars and compiles a list of dance medicine health practitioners.
The Swedish Dance Biennial
Dansbiennal 2008, will be held in Umeå, May 6-9 in connection to the MADE festival (Music-Art-Dance-Etc). The biennial will offer a seminar program with a strong artistic focus in master classes and workshops, seminars, lectures and discussions. A selection of interesting performances will be presented during the biennal and MADE festival. Pre-information on www.dansbiennal2008.se
The Swedish Dance Biennial is a national meeting place for the art of dance, moving to new places in Sweden every second year. Since automn 2001 the Swedish Dance Committee is responsible for the biennial and for appointing its organizer. The first dance biennial took place at Riksteatern and Dansens Hus in Stockholm in 1998, the second in Umeå in 2001, the third in Skåne in 2004 and the fourth in Gothenburg and surroundings in 2006.
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International Dance Day
In 1982 the International Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute (ITI-UNESCO) founded the International Dance Day to be celebrated every year on the 29th of April. The date commemorates the birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre (1727-1810), a great reformer of dance.
Every year a message from a well known dance personality is circulated throughout the world. The intention of International Dance Day and the Message is to celebrate this art form and revel in its universality, to cross all political, cultural and ethnic barriers and bring people together in peace and friendship.
The author of the International Dance Day Message 2008 will soon be announced.
International Dance Day Message 2007 by Sasha Waltz, Germany
"One dances on birthdays, at weddings, on the streets, in living rooms, on the stage, behind the scenes. To communicate joy, sorrow, as ritual and borderline experience. Dance is a universal language: emissary for a peaceful world, for equality, tolerance and compassion. Dance teaches us sensibility, consciousness and to pay attention to the moment.
Dance is the manifestation of our being alive. Dance is transformation. Dance locates the soul, dance affords the body a spiritual dimension.
Dance enables us to feel our body, to rise above, to go beyond, to be another body.
To dance is to participate actively in the vibration of the universe."
Download the Message in English and French as a pdf here! 
”DANSENS DAG” - A NATIONAL DANCE DAY IN SWEDEN
In 1998 the Swedish Dance Committee initiated a national Day of Dance to be celebrated on the 29th of April, the International Dance Day. Every year on this day the Swedish dance community and others arrange hundreds of dance activities to make dance visible all over the country. The exposure of dance in massmedia – television, press, Internet– is one of the Dance Committee´s important tasks.
Contact:
Swedish Dance Committee
Swedish Centre of ITI
Phone: +46 8 462 25 36 Fax: +46 8 462 25 35
Street address: Kaplansbacken 2
Postal address: Kaplansbacken 2, SE-112 24 STOCKHOLM
E-mail: info@danskommitten.se
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