International Dance Day - 29 April
Since 1982 International Dance Day is celebrated on 29 April all over the world. Every year International Dance Day Message is written by a well-known artist working within the dance field. This year the author is Argentinean Julio Bocca:
Dance is discipline, work, teaching, communication.
With it we save on words that perhaps others would not understand and, instead, we establish a universal language familiar to everyone.
It gives us pleasure, it makes us free and it comforts us from the impossibility we humans have to fly like birds, bringing us closer to heaven, to the sacred, to the infinite.
It is a sublime art, different each time, so much like making love that at the end of each performance it leaves our heart beating very hard and looking forward to the next time.
Laterna magika celebrates the IDD as well: with the performance Cocktail 008.