Havana, April 29.- The world celebrates today the International Day of Dance, established in 1982 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in tribute to this discipline as a universal art.
The date commemorates the birthday of the Frenchman Jean-Georges Noverre (1727-1810), considered the creator of modern ballet, whose theoretical and practical work marked a decisive turn in the history of dance.
In each edition, a figure from the choreographic field shares a message aimed at professionals and organizations in more than 200 countries.
This year, the author is Canadian Crystal Pite (1970), recognized for her exploration of collective movement and the theatrical charge of her creations.
We are dancers, all of us. Life moves us; life dances us. As ephemeral as breath, as concrete as bone, dance is made of us. We sculpt the space, wrote Pite.
We write with the body in a language without words that, however, we deeply understand. When we dance, we gracefully inhabit the inner space and the one that surrounds us, she emphasized.
For the choreographer, artistic manifestation, like life, is created and destroyed every instant. "Like love, it is beyond reason," she added in her message.
It is hard to imagine what a dance artist can do in a world that urgently needs radical transformation and healing. And yet, art, like hope, is a form of love. Generative even in desolation, art dissolves the hardening mind and acts as a balm that repairs it, she reflected.
Founder of the Kidd Pivot company, she has created pieces such as Betroffenheit, Flight Pattern and Revisor, which have won international awards such as the Olivier Award.
Dance is a tool for artistic and social reflection; like any artistic manifestation, it is capable of expressing emotions and experiences that transcend words, cultural, political, and geographical boundaries.
The full message published by Crystal Pite is available on the Cubarte portal website.
