International Dance Day was founded by the Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute, which is a partner for performing arts of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It was created in 1982. This day is important to draw the world’s attention towards art forms.
Significance of International Dance Day
This day gives value to the art. International Dance Day calls on governments, politicians and institutions, and society to realize their economic growth potential.
Every year, dancers and dance communities around the world celebrate this day. This is an important day to draw the world’s attention to art forms.
Goals of International Dance Day
- Promote all dance forms around the world.
- Make people realize the value of all dance forms.
- Attract the attention of the government and leaders, and get support to enable the dance community to promote their artworks
Celebration of the International Dance day 2020
Due to the Covid-19 lockdown, no one should go out of their homes and stay at their safely. You can play songs and dance. Moreover, you can share these beautiful quotes with your family and friends to celebrate International Dance Day 2020.
Some quotes of the International Dance day 2020
- We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams–Albert Einstein
- Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do–Shirley MacLaine
- The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word–Mata Hari
- Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself–Havelock Ellis
- Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion–Martha Graham
- Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals–Charles Baudelaire
- Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance–Dave Barry
- Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance ’till you drop–W. H. Auden
- Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth–William Watson Purkey
- Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order–Samuel Beckett
