2012 World Dance Alliance Global Assembly

WDA and daCi met for two days in August to plan for next year’s big event, and it was an impressive team that got together for the first time. Yunyu Wang is head of dance at the Taipei National University of the Arts, and she has assembled team of her colleagues, students and graduates to work on a festival that will welcome up to 1,000 young people, teachers, students and academics.

This partnership will be a first for daCi, an organisation that has never before met in an Asian country. Their team was equally impressive, and the two days were managed with skill and lots of patience by the planning committee of Yunyu, Ralph Buck, Jeff Meiners and Ann Kipling-Brown. We heard about the planned opening and closing events, and helped to plan an amazing program of masterclasses, workshops, keynote addresses and performances. There are also and plans for cultural tours of Taiwan before and after the festival, all of which will be available to groups wishing to come early or stay on afterwards.

Registrations, details of accommodation and the full program will be announced shortly. Keep an eye out on the WDA-daCi website.

WDA/daCi meeting, Taiwan 2011. Top left: Anna Chan, Yeh Chingwen, Ann Tai, Ping Heng. Top right: Ralph Buck, Ann Kipling-Brown, Jeff Meiners, Yunyu Wang. Bottom left: Jeff Meiners, Charlotte Svendler Nielsen. Bottom right: Pan Li-chun, Yeh Chingwen, Lee Hung Fu, Jeff Hsieh

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World Dance Alliance meetings in Taipei

We are meeting with the World Dance Alliance Asia Pacific in Taiwan this week to help plan two major events—a meeting of international dance support organisations in November, and the 2012 WDA Global Summit in Taipei in partnership with dance and the Child international (daCi).