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.