UWI group set to participate in Global Dance Summit

The UWI Festival Dance Ensemble will be participating in the first Global Dance Summit to be held in Taipei, Taiwan, on July 14-20.  The Summit combines the work of two major international organisations, Dance and the Child International (daCi) and World Dance Alliance-Asia/Pacific (WDA-AP) providing a forum for discussion between dance educators, teachers, researchers and students to advocate for dance education and affirm the role that dance plays in young people’s lives. The summit focuses on the following major themes: dance and social justice, teaching and learning dance, curriculum and hegemony and dance in formal and informal learning contexts. The programme includes performance, research papers, presentations, workshops, lecture demonstrations, showcase and master classes.

 

The participation of the UWI Festival Dance Ensemble will be in the form of workshops in the folk dances of Trinidad and Tobago, the showcase performance where they will be presenting “Reminising Haiti” and a paper presentation in Dance Dialogues titled Community Dance—Tradition, Identity and Change: The Prime Minister’s Best Village Trophy Competition”. Dancers and dance educators from North and South America, Caribbean, Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa will be in attendance engaging in discussions on various aspects of dance and sharing of their expertise and cultural forms. The Dance Ensemble will have a final performance before departure in collaboration with Arts-in-Action who will be attending Contacting The World (youth theatre festival) that is being held in Manchester, England. The performance will be on the 5th July at the Learning Resource Centre, UWI. Contribution is $50.