April 29 marks a celebration of dance

April 22, 2010
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April 26- World Intellectual Property Day

April 27- World Graphics Day

April 28- Workers’ Memorial Day

April 29- International Dance Day*

April 30- 65th anniversary of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s suicide death in 1945

This holiday, committed to the love of dance, was introduced in 1982 and created by the International Dance Committee (CID) of International Theatre Institute.

The celebration of the 2005 International Dance Day was primarily focused was on education; the CID reached out to dance studios and companies to contact the Ministry of Education for their support to encourage schools to acknowledge this day of dance as well.

 Those supporters proposed that the Ministry urge schools to commemorate the day by writing essays and drawing pictures all focused on dance.

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