Eight choreographers have been selected for the 2024 International Young Choreographer Project. Congratulations to the following artists:
1. Callum Mooney (Australia, WDA Asia Pacific)
2. Maybelle Lek Shue-Qi (Singapore, WDA Asia Pacific)
3. Ma Sze Nga Alice (Hong Kong, WDA Asia Pacific)
4. Anandita Khan (Bangladesh, WDA Asia Pacific)
5. Mohd Nuriqram Bin Azhar (Malaysia, WDA Asia Pacific)
6. Hsiang-Yu CHAN (Taiwan)
7. Tung-Chun HSU (Taiwan)
8. Yu-Chi CHEN (Taiwan)
The total activity will be from June 30 to July 21. Dancers audition is on June 30, and the rehearsal will start immediately after, ending with the performances are on July 20 and July 21. The venue of the rehearsal and the performance are in the studios and the Experimental Theater at the Tsoying High School, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
Official Announcement
For more information, please contact 2024 IYCP Project Office: dance30@tyhs.kh.edu.tw or dance@tyhs.kh.edu.tw
Author: Jeff Hsieh
2024 International Young Choreographer Project
| CHOROEGRAPHIC OPPORTUNITY IN TAIWAN Working with eight choreographers in July 2024 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
| Registration Form to be sent to your chapter head |
| Three to four choreographers recommended by WDA Asia-Pacific , and one choreographer recommended by WDA-America or Europe will be selected to attend the Young Choreographer Project (IYCP) in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. An additional three Taiwanese choreographers will also be selected to join the event. The funding is supported by National Culture and Arts Foundation, Bureau Culture Affairs of Kaohsiung City Government, and the Chin-Lin Foundation for Culture and Arts in Taiwan. The project will be held in the city of Kaohsiung, south of Taiwan. The tentative dates for the 2024 event are from July 1st to July 19th, with two performances taking place in the main stage of the theatre in the campus of Tsoying High School from July 20th to 21st. Choreographers will be recommended by WDA (Asian Pacific, America or Europe) chapter heads. The deadline for the recommendation from each chapter head is January 21st with all documents required sent to Taiwan. The final eight choreographers will be provided with housing, local transportation, dancers, studios, publicity, production and office assistance. In addition, an honorarium will be provided: US$ 800 for four choreographers from Asian Pacific area and US$ 1200 for the choreographer from America or Europe. Participants are responsible for international airfare and local transportation between the airport and the site. The selected choreographers will set the dance on dancers auditioned in Taiwan. It is recommended that only young choreographers who feel they can meet the challenges of producing a work under unfamiliar circumstances and with unfamiliar dancers should apply. |
| Each WDA region office in Asian Pacific, America or Europe will facilitate the selection process in its own chapter and sent only one candidate from each chapter or country to the IYCP office in Taiwan. You need to be a member in order to apply to your chapter. Expressions of interest should address the following points and approach to your area chapter (http://www.wda-ap.org/chapters/): |
A. What would you gain from a professional experience such as this? B. Why would you like to work in Asia? C. A brief concept of your work D. A 200-word autobiography and a resume/CV |
| If you are short listed in the final list in your chapter, you will be required to submit WDA (Asia-Pacific, America or Europe) a link to an online video (YouTube or Vimeo) of a work sample of your recent choreography, either with a single dance piece or several excerpts (less than 20 minutes). You may also be invited to send up to three photos of your work, which is not compulsory, but will give WDA (Asian Pacific, America or Europe) selection board more ideas about your choreography. Expressions of interest should EMAIL to the WDA (Asia-Pacific, America or Europe) office of each chapter by January 10th. Download Registration Form *Please send this registration form to your chapter head for their evaluation. The name and document of each choreographer recommended by the WDA chapters should be sent to Taiwan office by January 30th. Taiwan office will announce the result of the final eight selections for the 2024 IYCP by February 25th, 2024, on the WDA-AP website at http://www.wda-ap.org. Also, a letter of confirmation to each choreographer will be emailed from the office in Taiwan. For information or any enquiry about the International Young Choreography Project, please visit http://www.wda-ap.org/projects or contact the Project Office at Tsoying High School (email: dance30@tyhs.kh.edu.tw). Mailing address: Chapter Head /Ms. Su-ling Chou, Tso’s Dance Association 55, Hai-gong Rd., Tsoying, Kaohsiung 81326, Taiwan |
Ocean Dance Festival (postponed)
(Ocean Dance Festival has been postponed to Janurary, 2024. Please watch for the update news on WDAAP website).
The Second Ocean Dance Festival (ODF) being organized at Cox’s Bazaar, a breath-takingly beautiful beach city, in Southern Bangladesh, by Nrityajog, a conglomeration of forty dance organizations of Bangladesh under the umbrella of the World Dance Alliance – Asia Pacific (WDA-AP), from November 22 to 24, 2023, is envisioned as a showcasing of mainly Bangladeshi dance interspersed by performances from South Asia and the Asia Pacific. The organizers hope to make this a yearly event combining exciting tourism with dance. The Ministries of Cultural Affairs and Civil Aviation & Tourism, of Bangladesh, are the co-hosts.
The Second ODF will be combined with the yearly event of WDA – AP, which includes Key-note speeches, Academic seminars, Workshops, Performances and Lecture demonstrations, on a ‘theme topic’ by participants from all over the Asia Pacific, concluding with the Annual General Meeting of WDA-AP.
check the festival website at http://www.oceandancefestival.com/
Download the introduction in PDF version.
SWEAT Hong Kong International Dance Festival | Virtual
Organized by the School of Dance at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, held between 17 and 25 June 2022, SWEAT is specially curated for the international dance community to meet, innovate, research, share and dance. This year, leading dance academies, artists, scholars and other practitioners will “arrive” in Hong Kong to reconnect and explore new frontiers of dance and beyond.
Come meet creative residents at ArtsCross Hong Kong 2022 to explore dance & technology “in the clouds”; celebrate the re-connection of dance academies and talented students at the first Digital International Festival for Dance Academies (IFDA) with screenings and interactive student forums and selected commissioned dance films. Presented by the World Dance Alliance and co-presented with the Hong Kong Dance Alliance (HKDA), the World Dance Alliance (WDA) Global Summit aims to promote dance and wellness in response to the Covid-19 pandemic affecting the wellbeing of dance practitioners worldwide, with the theme Dance Offer/On New Energy. The sensational four-day virtual conference features a series of riveting and inspiring paper presentations, Pecha Kucha presentations, dance film screenings and more.
Watch the Festival Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCoJfm7nE2Y
Learn more: https://sweat-festival.hkapa.edu
Members of WDA can enjoy exclusive discounts, get your pass now at https://sweat-festival.hkapa.edu/ereg/newreg.php?eventid=100194209&
For more information, contact info@sweat-festival.com
2022 International Young Choreographer Project has been cancelled.
2022 International Young Choreographer Project has been cancelled.
Because of the spreading of COVID-19 in Taiwan, we are sorry to announce that the 2022 International Young Choreographer Project has to be cancelled. Hopefully, the project can be held in 2023.
If you still need furthur information, please contact the Project Office at Tso’s Dance Association
Chief of Secretary/Ms. Su-ling Chou
55, Hai-gong Rd., Tsoying, Kaohsiung 813, Taiwan
Email: dance30@tyhs.kh.edu.tw
WDA Statement of Support
Dear Friends, Practitioners, Scholars, Advocates, and Supporters of Dance World Wide,
This is a message of hope and aspiration.
As the world reels under the Covid-19 pandemic, we are all confronted with having to adapt to new-normal amidst great challenges to our dance community. Natural disasters such as the Amphan cyclone in South Asia, the bushfires in Brazil and Australia, the global Covid-19 pandemic continue to pose great uncertainties, destroying precious lives and livelihood, causing our robust economies to form into trickles, affecting the arts industry to reach an unprecedented low point.
Nonetheless, our resilience in responding to such calamities has been exceptional, as we engage our dance communities to adapt to the ever-changing landscapes. Our myriad backgrounds and culturally diverse communities have been our greatest reservoir of talent pools for our creative endeavors, time tested and fastidiously honored.
As an independent, non-profit, non-political organization that promotes the recognition, development and mutual understanding of all forms of dance, WDA stands as a united community against all forms of racial inequality, ethnic hegemony and cultural superiority. Dance is Life and lives lived in inequality matter.
Professor Mohd Anis Md Nor, PhD
Secretary General
World Dance Alliance
Father: Vision of the Floating World
One of a series of film clips in celebration of International Dance Day 2020:
Both of Akram Khan’s parents were born and raised in Bangladesh. He grew up hearing stories of the Bangladesh Liberation War from his family, including his uncle who was a freedom fighter. His mother was studying at prestigious Dhaka University when she went to hear ‘Bongobondhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Ramna Race Course on 7 March 1971, calling out to his people to liberate Bangladesh. It was so crowded, she had to step on a rickshaw to try and catch a glimpse of him! Even today she can remember how his words moved her.
For this work, Akram draws on his childhood stories and his families’ sense of national pride to present to Bangladesh the essence of Bongobondhu’s spirit. Using Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s powerful speech as inspiration, Akram invited composer Vincenzo Lamagna to create the score in this new piece. Akram created an 8-min piece titled Father: Vision of the Floating World that featured as part of the 100-year anniversary of the Father of the Nation, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, on Tuesday 17 March 2020 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The work was performed by three Akram Khan Company dancers who spent four weeks in a rehearsal residency in the heart of the country teaching the movement to 25 dancers from Dhaka.
Artistic Director and Choreographer Akram Khan
Creative Associate Mavin Khoo
Composer Vincenzo Lamagna, devised in collaboration with vocalist Sohini Alam
Lighting Designer Ric Mountjoy
Costume Designer Marie Cantenys
Collaborator to Costume Designer Margaux Lalanne
Rehearsal Director Yen-Ching Lin
Lead Dance Artist Lani Yamanaka
Dance Artist Elpida Skourou
Dance Artist Raziman Sarbini
Dancers Abu Nayeem, Alka Das Pranti, Amit Chowdhury, Ana Akter, Anandita Khan, Ariful islam, Farzana Yeasmin, Fifa Chakma, Aviroop Hridoy Sharma, Imran Ishtiaque, Maria Farih Upama, MD Hanif, Mehraj Haque Tushar, Mohana Meem, Zuairiyah Mouli, Parsa Evana, Prantik Deb, Samina Prema, Shammy Akhter, SI Evan, SI Shafiq, Sohan Arefin, Sudeshna Swayamprabha Tathoi and Sweety Das, Umma Habiba.
Head of Legacy & Project Manager Christine Maupetit
Project Consultant Eeshita Azad
DHAKA team
Costume Correspondent Faiza Ahmed
Blues Communications – Event Company
Farhadul Islam – CEO Blues Communications
Protik Chowdhury – Project Manager/Technical point of contact
Antu Tomnoy – Artist liaison coordinator
Video by Applebox Films
World Dance Day 2020 Video by Lok Chhanda
One of a series of film clips in celebration of International Dance Day 2020:
This World Dance Day, Lok Chhanda in Delhi, India, has made this video compilation dedicated to the frontline workers fighting the Covid-19 pandemic.
We are extremely grateful to all the gurus, choreographers & dancers for their support and encouragement.
Concept – Maitreyee Pahari
With the blessings & guidance of Pt. Birju Maharaj
Music – Vanraj Bhatia (opening sholka)
Video Editing – Pradeep Kumar
Audio Editing – Ankur Kapoor
Music Label – Living Media India Limited
2020 WDAAP/TDRS Conference and AGM
26-27 December 2020, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
“Navigating Location, Negotiating Identity”
The conference is confirmed to be held in Taiwanfrom December 26 to 27 this year. Since no travel is allowed during the pandemic time, the conference ishonoring all selected presenters from abroad utilizing the video presentations as well as with the local presenters on site in Kaohsiung, the second largest city in Taiwan. There will be around 200 participants from Taiwan, while 19 paper presenters will be placed side by side with the local scholars in the same panel. In addition, eight selected dances will be displayed in the Showcase Film Program with the pre-recorded film video from India, Bangladesh, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and the United States. Continue reading