April 29 is international day. International Dance Day
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April 29 people all over the world will celebrate D day dedicated to dancing. This holiday was established by the International Dance Council of UNESCO in 1982. The date is not accidental, since it was Born on April 29 famous French choreographer, “father of modern ballet” Jean-Georges Noverre. He was the first to stage full-fledged ballet performances.
International Dance Day should unite people who, in one way or another, have connected their lives with dance. This holiday is dedicated to all styles and trends in dance. It allows people all over the world to speak one common language - the language of dance.
Every year, one of the famous people in the world of choreography is honored to present to the public his speech about the magic and power of dance. The first was Henrik Newbauer in 1982.
And every year dancers are awarded a prize for special merits: Benois de la danse. They are awarded only to the most outstanding representatives.
Dance is a very specific art form because it allows the artist to convey his emotions through movement. But dance is also somewhat difficult to perceive, since each of us has our own perception of reality, our own feelings and experiences. And sometimes it is quite difficult for us to discern in a dance the meaning put into it by the performer.
History of dance
The history of dance begins with the birth of humanity and society. Our distant ancestors came up with the simplest movements, which were then transformed into ritual actions. Dance in those days had not an entertaining, but a sacred meaning.
And now formalized by the first dance counts oriental belly dance. On the walls of Pharaonic tombs there are images of girls dancing this sensual dance.
In Europe, during the times of court balls and receptions, the dances were very slow and graceful. It was more like a majestic walk around the hall than a dance in the modern sense. Ladies and gentlemen performed intricate steps, often changed partners and could even carry on a leisurely conversation.
And riots blossomed on the streets of cities and villages folk dance. Bourgeois and peasants from different countries found fun in noisy festivals, fairs, performances of traveling troubadours, etc. And their dance was just as fast, noisy, impetuous. The most striking examples are the polka, mazurka, and tarantella. They originated on the streets among ordinary citizens and have gained so much popularity.
And here dance as art found its display in the form ballet. However, at first he only accompanied opera and theater productions, he served only as a background for the action on stage. And only in the 16th century in Spain, and then in France ballet has become an independent art form.
Today we see graceful ballerinas in light tutus fluttering around the stage like moths.
However, the costume was not always like this. Initially, the girls' skirt reached the floor, which did not allow wide movements. Over time, the tutu became shorter and shorter, and the dancers’ capabilities became wider.
The freedom of movement of ballerinas allows directors to come up with more and more complex and intricate parts. So, in the ballet P.I. Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" the prima must perform 32 fouettés. But a girl from Great Britain performed 166 fouettés during summer ballet classes in 1991, which became a kind of record in the world of dance.
Interesting facts about dancing. Dance records
The Russians showed miracles of endurance by establishing record for performing easterndance. This was done by the teacher of the Gulshchan school, Vita Saakova. Her record is 3 hours 15 minutes.
But this is not the limit! In 2010, in India, dancer Kalamandalam Hemalentha established world record, performing folk dance for 123 hours 15 minutes.
And the Turkish ensemble “Lights of Anatolia” received 2 records at once. They performed a dance with 241 steps per minute. And also - they gathered the largest audience of viewers - 400,000 people.
The fastest dancer in the world recognized is Michael Ryan Flatley (tap), dancing with the Lord of the Dance and Feet of Flames teams. Its speed in 1989 was 28 beats per second, and in 1998 35 beats per second.
During the Halloween celebrations in Times Square in London on October 30, 2008, the most world's most popular dance from Thriller (Michael Jackson). 70 people danced it. A record for synchronized performance of the same dance was established on October 25, 2009, when 20 thousand fans performed the dance simultaneously in more than 300 cities around the world.
Most mass dance on pointe shoes rightfully belongs to the 245 dancers who showed their skills at the Orange County Convention Center.
Outdid everyone in India, where 10,736 dancers performed bamboo dance(Chero's dance), entered the Guinness Book of Records with the most massive and crowded dance.
So it turns out that dancing is not only good health, but also an opportunity to self-realize through this amazing action, to see how the people around you do it.
Dance is the oldest form of human expression. With the help of his body and language of movements, a person not only presents himself to the people around him, but also gains an internal connection with the spiritual and emotional world.
Dance is an art that does not require a brush or a pen. His only instrument is the human body, in every movement of which dance lives. However, dance requires not only the participation of the body, but also the soul and mind. And people who are completely immersed in the magical world of dance remain devoted to it to the end.
But dance is not only a hobby, it is work, discipline, training, and the art of communication. With dance you can sometimes say much more than with words. In addition, the language of dance is universal, since it has no boundaries and is understandable to everyone, regardless of what language we speak.
International Dance Day is a holiday dedicated to all dance styles without exception, this day is celebrated annually April 29.
The history of the holiday
This holiday arose on the initiative of the International Dance Council of UNESCO almost 30 years ago - in 1982. The date of April 29 was proposed by ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher P.A. Gusev in tribute to the memory of the great French choreographer and reformer Jean-Georges Nover, who was born on this day and went down in history as the “father of modern ballet.”
Born on April 29, 1727, Jean-Georges Nover was a student of the then famous choreographer L. Dupre. Later he performed as a dancer, and then led European ballet groups: in Vienna at the Royal Palace, at the Paris Opera, in London at the Drury Lane Theater. Nover was the first director of ballet performances with a complete storyline. He also wrote a number of key theoretical developments on the issues of staging ballet performances. Nover developed the basic principles of tragedy ballet and heroic ballet. In 1759, his famous work entitled “Letters on Dances and Ballets” was published, in which Nover substantiated the main positions of the ballet-play, which should be implemented jointly by the composer, choreographer and artist, through pantomime and dance.
International Dance Day today
According to the idea of the founders, the task of the International Dance Day should be to unite all dance trends and styles. This holiday should also be an occasion to celebrate the art of dance and its unique ability to transcend all boundaries: ethnic, political or cultural. After all, dance has great potential to unite people who speak the same language – the language of dance.
Traditionally, every year one of the famous representatives of the dance world addresses humanity with a message, the purpose of which is to remind people of the beauty, strength and power of dance.
Every year on this day the Ballet Benois prize, established in 1991 by the International Association of Choreographers, is awarded.
Dance styles
Ballroom dancing. The birth of the waltz occurred thanks to various dances of the peoples of Europe.
There is a slow (English) waltz with smooth turns and long sliding movements.
The Viennese Waltz has an accentuated rhythm, which makes this dance more clear and elegant. Despite the fact that in this waltz all the circles are rapid, the movements of the partners must be completely coordinated, graceful and smooth.
Another sensual and temperamental dance is the Argentine tango, which always combines passion with notes of sadness. With the help of this tango you can fully express the depth of feelings. In tango, a man and a woman move according to their own scripts, they have different steps and different movements, so every gesture, even the smallest one, is important.
Foxtrot is a dance that served as an impetus for the development of all ballroom dance. Foxtrot is a combination of slow and fast steps in a huge number of variations. Due to such a high complexity of the rhythmic nature of the movements, this dance is considered the most difficult to learn.
Wedding dance also refers to ballroom dancing and is a combination of a variety of elements: waltz, tango, and any other dance that a couple in love wants to dance.
Flamenco is a dance of feelings, and completely different ones, expressing a huge range of experiences from euphoria to tragedy. This Spanish dance combines many different dance styles. Flamenco is danced to the accompaniment of a guitar, often accompanied by singing. The dancers' movements are incredibly flexible, proud, combining soft hand movements with crazy fractions. Flamenco has a huge number of styles and an important advantage - this dance has no age limits or restrictions.
Latina (Latin American dances) is a very unique dance style, which is based on a strong expression of emotions and is considered the style of temperamental people. Latin American dances are stunning in their beauty; they are a mixture of different schools and movements, they combine the movements of samba, rumba, mamba, jive, salsa, paso doble and other dances. Latin American style is imbued with the spirit of freedom and expression.
Belly dance is an ancient style that includes more than fifty types of Arabic dance. Today there are quite a large number of oriental dance schools - these are the Egyptian school, Turkish, Persian, Thai, Aden, Pakistani, Jordanian, Bhutanese and others. Belly dance is, first of all, soft, smooth and very graceful movements. By dancing oriental dance, every woman not only fully reveals her attractiveness, but also maintains a healthy body.
Strip plastic is a dance of sensuality and emancipation, allowing you to reveal the individuality of everyone. It looks beautiful, natural and revealing. The specificity of strip plastic surgery is a special technique for staging movements. It is believed that with the help of this dance style, everyone can learn to emphasize the advantages of their figure and hide flaws, as well as learn to move beautifully.
Hip-hop is a progressive dance style. Modern hip-hop can be called the dance of youth parties. It is, in fact, an improvisational dance, as it originated from African jazz.
Brakedance. This dance is a kind of part of hip-hop culture. It can be called dynamic and extreme. Breaking is divided into upper and lower, and all people who break dance are called breakers. Also, breaker guys are called b-boys, and girls are called b-girls.
R"n"B can be called a combination of wavestorm and kramp dance styles. As an independent style, R"n"B took shape in America in the 1940s and was initially an alternative to regular blues. This style can safely be called the avant-garde of dance and music fashion. This is the main youth dance style.
Club dance is a set of a wide variety of movements with the possibility of improvisation. This style can be called universal because, having mastered it, everyone can dance anywhere - at a house party, in a prestigious club or at a disco. Club dance completely depends on the imagination, on the desires and capabilities of the person dancing, since everyone chooses the movements for themselves, and their combination becomes an expression of the individuality of the dancer.
Modern jazz is a style of African peoples that combines energetic rhythms with jazz elements. A distinctive feature of this style is the use of the body as an instrument for beating out a musical rhythm. Body movements in dance are sharp, broken, which are a reflection not only of external manifestations, but also of a person’s internal experiences.
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Today, 04/29/2019, the world celebrates International (World) Dance Day, among the Slavs April 29 is Navy Day, and in Japan they celebrate a spring holiday - Showa Day.
Holidays April 29, 2019
Dance day
Today, the entire dancing world is celebrating its professional holiday, International (World), which is dedicated to all styles of dance; it began to be celebrated by decision of UNESCO back in 1982 on the birthday of Jean-Georges Nover, a French choreographer, reformer and theorist of choreographic art, who was a student of choreographer L. Dupre and became the “father of modern ballet.”
Nover, as a dancer, organized and led a ballet troupe in London at the Drury Lane Theatre, he developed the principles of heroic ballet-tragedy, and in 1759 he published his famous work, “Letters on Dance and Ballets,” where he substantiated the developed principles of ballet-tragedy. plays.
Holiday among the Slavs
Navy day
On April 29, it was customary for the Slavs to visit the burial places of deceased relatives.
Navy Day is essentially a ritual of resurrecting the dead. It was believed that with the onset of dry winter, the Slavs began ritual visits to graves, where they brought demands.
Treba is a Slavic term that denotes worship or offering, as well as sacrifice or administration of a sacrament, a sacred rite. “Treba” in Slavic means “I create for God’s soul” (“T” - teyu (I create), “R” - Ra (God), “B” - ba (soul)).
The Slavs buried their relatives on high embankments in mounds, performed funeral feasts there and laid out the required food, making libations. The requirements of the Slavs are household items, food, which are made with their own hands. The food consisted of kutya, pies, rolls, pancakes, cheesecakes, colored eggs, wine, and beer.
On April 29, according to Slavic custom, living relatives bring the needs of long-dead people into the water, saying:
Shine, shine, Sunshine!
I'll give you an egg
Like a hen laying eggs in an oak grove,
Take him to heaven
May it bring joy to all souls.
Showa Day in Japan
Showa Day in Japan is the day on April 29, 1945, when World War II was already over and Japan was defeated. And on this day, Emperor Hirohito of Japan addressed the Japanese people and officially proclaimed: “From now on, I become a man.” Until this point in Japan, God was considered the emperor. The Japanese firmly believed that their lives and state were controlled by God himself. Emperor Hirohito, who became a “mere mortal,” personified a period of Japanese history (from December 25, 1926 to January 7, 1989), which was called the Showa period, which became the longest and brought the largest number of events in the history of Japan.
Unusual and funny holiday
Attic Mystery Day
Remember what holiday it is today and remember on this unusual Day of Mysterious Attics your childhood, when you, together with girls and boys, climbed roofs and attics, where various antique things lay and where you could find a lot of interesting, mysterious and even fabulous things. The boys in the attics definitely wanted to find the treasure. And all the children believed that brownies lived in attics. Old mysterious attics attracted us; we wanted to find a miracle there. We grew up and stopped believing in miracles, and maybe in vain? Maybe it’s worth going back to childhood at least for a day and climbing into the old attic? What if we find something there today that we couldn’t find in our distant childhood?
Church holidays
Radonitsa
The day after Antipascha (or St. Thomas Sunday), on Tuesday of the second week after Easter, the Orthodox Church established the first day after Easter to commemorate all the dead. It was called Radonitsa and began to be considered Easter for the departed.
Christians, on the day of Radonitsa, symbolically shared the joy of the resurrection of the Savior with members of the Church who had already left this world. This holiday, according to the testimony of St. John Chrysostom, who lived in the 4th century, was celebrated by Christians already in ancient times.
Holiday according to the folk calendar
Arina - “snatch the shores”
On this day, Christians honor the sisters Agapia, Chionia and Irina - the martyrs of Thessalonica. According to legend, these pious sisters were hiding from persecution by Emperor Diocletian along with other Christian women in the mountains, but one day they were captured and brought to trial, offering to renounce the Christian faith. They refused the women, then Agapia and Chionia were burned on the very first day, the rest of the Christian women, to give them the opportunity to come to their senses, were imprisoned. The next day after the interrogation, the ruler ordered to be taken to a brothel, but no one there dared even touch the righteous woman. The martyr was then executed.
On April 29, on Arina, it was customary for people to whitewash the trunks of garden trees.
Name day April 29 at Vasilisa, Galina, Irina, Leonid, Mikhail, Nika, Pavel
Also on April 29th they celebrate: Day of Mysterious Attics, Birthday of the zipper.
April 29 in history
1945 - In Berlin, surrounded by Soviet troops, the wedding of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun took place in a bunker. The next day, the newlyweds committed suicide.
1945 - Gestapo chief G. Müller died in a battle near the Reich Chancellery in Berlin (according to some sources, he did not die, but fled to the West).
1946 - 28 Japanese Nazi leaders indicted for war crimes
1976 - a bomb exploded near the walls of the Soviet embassy in Beijing. Two Chinese guards were killed.
1977 - for the first time, the Pope and the head of the Anglican Church, the Bishop of Canterbury, held a joint service in the Sistine Chapel.
1980 - Alfred Hitchcock (b. 1899), Anglo-American director, Oscar winner (The Birds, Frenzy, Strangers on a Train, The 39 Steps) died.
1982 - China's population exceeds the billion mark.
2000 - Germany handed over fragments of the Amber Room to Russia.
2001 - The State Duma of Russia adopted in the second reading a bill allowing the import of irradiated nuclear fuel into Russia.
2003 - It is agreed that Iraq will not have to pay the debts of Saddam Hussein's regime. The agreement does not meet the interests of Russia as the legal successor of the USSR.
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All countries celebrate World Dance Day. This event is dedicated to all dance styles. The founding date of the holiday is 1982, and the initiator was UNESCO. The date was not chosen at all by chance. It was on this day in 1727 that the world-famous choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre was born, who went down in history as the founder of modern ballet.” Among his teachers was the famous choreographer Louis Dupre. Noverre's debut took place in Fontainebleau at the royal court of ruler Louis XV. At that time, the aspiring dancer was only 15 years old. After a successful performance, the young man was immediately invited to Germany. Upon returning to his homeland, he got a job in the ballet troupe of the Opera-Comic Theater. A few years later, Noverre legalized his relationship with actress Margarite-Louise Sauveur.
In the same year, after another closure of the Opera-Comique theater due to financial difficulties, Jean-Georges went on a tour of European cities. For several years he gave performances in Strasbourg and Lyon, and then moved to the UK (London), where he worked for two years in the team of artist David Garik. Noverre maintained friendly relations with this man throughout his life, and subsequently called him “Shakespeare in dance.” While performing in his troupe, Jean-Georges decided to create a personal dance show, separate from the opera. Indeed, until this time, ballet was used only as a small element in the opera. For a long time, he pondered a serious dance theme and choreographic dramaturgy, planning to turn the ballet into a complete performance with the development of the plot and the characters of the main characters.
In 1754, upon his arrival in France, at the newly opened Opera-Comique theater, Noverre organized his debut ballet performance, which was extremely popular. At the end of the 18th century, he summarized all the skills and experience in the field of choreography and noted its key features in the work “Letters on Dance and Ballets”, popular among experts, which became the first theoretical work in the field of dance art.
The main goal of the holiday is to unite all choreographic styles as a single art form. According to the founders, Dance Day is a good reason to overcome political, social, cultural and national boundaries, an opportunity to unite all people in the name of peace and friendship, allowing them to communicate in the same language of dance. On this day, the entire dancing society - theater and ballet troupes, modern choreographic groups, folk dance groups and ballroom ensembles and other artists celebrate their professional date. The forms of celebration are very different - standard performances and concerts, thematic flash mobs and non-standard performances. The official part of the holiday necessarily includes an address to the society by some famous representative of the dance world with a message that reminds people of the importance of this art form such as choreography.
Movement is life, so dance! This motto perfectly reflects the essence of one of the types of art that can unite people of different ages, nationalities and religions. Dance Day 2020 is truly an event on a planetary scale; it is celebrated by residents of many countries. Therefore, this is a day not only for professional dancers, but also for all those who love to dance.
Why is the holiday celebrated on April 29?
On this day, the famous French choreographer Jean-Jacques Noverre, who lived and worked in the middle of the 18th century, was born. He freed the dancers from bulky, uncomfortable clothing, which greatly restricted their movements and did not allow them to do much. His services include the development of the basic principles of classical ballet; the Frenchman wrote many treatises on this topic. It is curious that before Noverre’s innovations, the dance direction always existed in conjunction with opera and complemented the performance of singers. Noverre was the first to make ballet an independent performance with its own plot, drama and characters. It is not surprising that when UNESCO approved International Dance Day as an official holiday in 1982, the birthday of the famous choreographer and founder of modern ballet was chosen as the date of its celebration.
A reason to start dancing
If you have never practiced this type of art or for some reason abandoned it, on the eve of this date you should, if not start dancing, then at least think about it. Decide on your direction and start choosing a school or club. In any city (no matter how large or small) there is such an establishment. There are plenty of genres - everyone will find something to their liking. Ballroom dancing, breakdancing, modern, tango, hip-hop, bachata, flamenco - the choice is endless.
International Dance Day: holiday scenario
It is celebrated in many parts of the world, including in our country, in various formats. Thematic performances, concerts, and competitions are held in large cities. Dance studios organize open lessons and invite everyone to try themselves in various directions. Flash mobs, parties and other themed events are held. Not only those who chose Terpsichore’s craft as their profession and dedicated their lives to it, but also amateurs, both young and old, take an active part in them.
Do you want to celebrate International Dance Day 2020 and are wondering how to do it? Organize a dance procession with the participation of professional dancers... Or get together with a group and invite a dancer to give you a master class. Choose the genre you would like to master and start learning right on April 29th. You can also arrange a flash mob, which is popular nowadays, by entrusting its staging. All this action is definitely worth capturing as a memory, so everything that happens will not be superfluous at all. In our catalog there are many professionals who perform reportage photography.
Whatever format you choose to celebrate this day, the main thing is to come in a good mood and dance!
