"World Dance Day always reminds us that dance is the elixir of life for us humans. Let's take advantage of it! That dance provides us with an important educational process. Let us engage in it again and again! And that dance connects us with many cultures. Let's seize this opportunity!"
In her message, Margrit Bischof talks about the power of dance!
She is one of the seven members of the board of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and, as a dance researcher, is committed to a multifaceted networking of research, education and art in dance. As a lecturer for dance at the University of Bern she was responsible for teaching and research in the field of dance. She initiated a variety of national and international conferences on dance topics and directed the university dance group Paranoimia. She designed the university continuing education course DAS/MAS TanzKultur at the University of Bern and directed it from 2002 to 2015. She published in the field of dance pedagogy, dance research and dance education. She was president of the German-speaking Commission for Theater and Dance of the Canton of Bern.
She has been associated with the Society for Dance Research since its foundation in the 80's and was 1st president from 2015 to 2019. She currently presides over the commission kulturerbe,tanz! and received a prize from Kulturerbe Tanz Schweiz with this project from the BAK (Federal Office of Culture) in 2018.
With her message, we wish you a joyful and exhilarating World Dance Day!