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WDA 2009 General Assembly - General Information

The 2009 World Dance Alliance-Americas General Assembly is a conference and festival which will bring together an international cohort of dance artists, educators, and students. Individuals and groups from over 15 countries and throughout the United States submitted over 160 proposals for performances, paper presentations, master classes, workshops, and choreographic projects during the Assembly. Through these contributions- active dance practice, performance, scholarship, and discussion- the Assembly will investigate What Moves Us today as participants in dance. This theme emerges from one recent trend in the discipline of Dance: a shift from an exclusive focus on high art and theater dance to the investigation of contemporary movement practices and the cultivation of global accessibility. In response to this broadening of approach, the Assembly will foreground the most basic, vital, and critical component of dance: movement. This theme is intended to encourage diverse approaches to viewing and performing dance and will develop a particular focus on community dance, non-conventional dancers, disability, and international collaboration & exchange.

World Dance Alliance-Americas is a member-driven organization whose mission is to discuss and debate aspects of common interest in order to help all the dance professionals of the Western hemisphere. Its aim is to support and preserve dance by promoting movement-based art and practice, encouraging collaboration, and facilitating international exchange and study of common problems. WDAA is itself a regional component of the global World Dance Alliance, which also include WDA-Asia Pacific and WDA-Europe. Through its regional networks, WDA serves as a primary voice for dance and dancers throughout the world and encourages the exchange of ideas and the awareness of dance in all its many forms. The network of regional alliances provides information, advocacy, networking opportunities, and communication for dance organizations and individuals, as well as a forum for the international exchange of ideas, information, expertise, and resources in all areas of dance.

The 2009 WDAA General Assembly is a key component of the UW-Madison's third annual Summer Dance Institute and hopes to build on the success of its 2008 Intercontinental Summer Dance Festival which presented five full or near-capacity concerts of participants' choreography.

2008 Intercontinental Summer Dance Festival Photo Gallery
Channels/Canales - World Dance Alliance-Americas newsletter - Fall 2008

For general questions about the Assembly, please contact Ereck Jarvis by email at jejarvis@wisc.edu.

The WDAA 2009 General Assembly is also sponsored by LACIS