[Achievement Story] Series #1"Dance for all"
Achievement Story share the project that CPI participants lead after receiving CPI training. We deliver their stories about what they improve the environment of the public cultural industry and how culture and arts could contribute to healing the community for a better life.
Dance project of Madagascar 〈Danse pour tous, “Dance for all”〉
It's weekly dance lessons for free to everyone named ‘Danse pour tous’(Dance for all). As a part of the project, I finished building Maray dance studio that could accommodate rehearsals of artists, art classes or workshops, mini residencies for artists. I have been providing dance lessons every Saturday since December 2019 to now at the studio in Antananarivo in Madagascar. The lessons are for all those who want to learn dance but cannot afford dance lessons. Since first lesson, we have a hundred participants of all ages so far.
This is part of a desire to make art accessible to everyone because I think that art contributes to the wellbeing of each individual, this is why I decided on my own initiative to give dance lessons for free all those who wish to learn dance but who cannot afford to pay dance lessons, this project also aims to create a moment of meeting and sharing through dance. I give contemporary, urban and African dance lessons for free once a week. Most of the participants of 'Dance for All' are residents of the neighborhood.
Continued efforts to the project
My participation in the CPI program and SIDanse allowed me to strengthen my capacity to carry out an artistic project. For the first time, I have no other partners apart from my personal investment as well as a few members of my dance company for this project. However I received the help of the 'Helping Hand' program launched by the Ecole des Sables Senegal for the creation of the 'Maray Dance Studio' where the 'Dance for All' program takes place. I also have the moral support of the residents of the neighborhood to continue the project ‘Dance for all’ because they find it beneficial for them to be able to take dance lessons for free.
Little Venues for True Dance Spirit
There is an another dance project 〈…Et pendant ce temps je dansais..〉 meaning 'and during that time I was dancing'. It's a project that I initiated since 2019, dance performances in public circles, where people work daily. the idea is to make art accessible to all but also to answer the question 'what it means for me to be a dancer in a country where the priority for most people is to find something to eat day by day and what it means for them to see me dancing there.
Journey to expanding "Dance for all" project
For the project 'Dance for all' I would like to invite other dance teachers to give participants the widest possible knowledge of dance and art in general, I would like to direct this program from now on towards professionalism, that is to say to give tools to the participants so that in turn they could also give dance lessons or perform but for that I am still looking for funding supports to be able to pay the invited teachers to give courses in this program.
Information on her project can be found at https://www.facebook.com/compagnieanjorombala
Iarisoa Veronirina Julie(Madagascar)
She is a choreographer of Anjorombala dance company. She received training at Seoul Section of the Int'l Dance Council (2016)
