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Seven, even eight, days a week are no longer enough to celebrate National Dance Week. So the Coalition for National Dance Week, which sets the official dates, has designated ten days this year in which to celebrate and propagate the idea and embodiment of dance. Traditionally, the week includes the April 29 birthday anniversary of eighteenth-century ballet master and dance theorist Jean-Georges Noverre. On these pages are some examples of events that are planned for NDW 2003 in various parts of the U.S. But, what, you may be thinking, can you do this year? Here are some suggestions.
Buy a ticket. Buy two and take a friend, a student, a stranger. Support other members of the dance community and recharge your own batteries by seeing someone else's dancing. National Dance Week is a grassroots movement that is meant to show dance and its possibilities to those who don't already know. Its mission is "to heighten the awareness of dance and its contributions to our culture. Dance is good for the mind, body, and spirit." So show someone.
If you have a performance, provide flyers from neighboring companies. What's good for one company's dance is good for all dance. The more people know or see, the more they understand, like it, and participate.
Involve the greater dance community, such as dance-medicine specialists or bodywork practitioners, production technicians and designers, publicity and promotion planners, and...
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