
30/04/2025
These wordsโฆ How does it get any better for International Dance Day!
The International Theatre Institute World Organization for the Performing Arts, creator of International Dance Day, asked our Founder and Artistic Director, Mikhail Baryshnikov, to be the official author of this year's IDD message. Read his beautiful words below:
โItโs often said that dance can express the unspeakable. Joy, grief, and despair become visible; embodied expressions of our shared fragility. In this, dance can awaken empathy, inspire kindness, and spark a desire to heal rather than harm.
Especially nowโas hundreds of thousands endure war, navigate political upheaval, and rise in protest against injusticeโhonest reflection is vital. Itโs a heavy burden to place on the body, on dance, on art. Yet art is still the best way to give form to the unspoken, and we can begin by asking ourselves: Where is my truth? How do I honor myself and my community? Whom do I answer to?โ
Learn more: https://www.international-dance-day.org/