International Day of the Dance

Our instructor informed us, that today was "Day of the Dance." A day to honor Jean-Georges Noverre. This knowledge is from Wikipidia, so I'm sorry for any mistakes.

Copied from Wikipidia:
Jean-Georges Noverre (29 April 1727 – 19 October 1810) was a French dancer and balletmaster, and is generally considered the creator of ballet d'action, a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century. His birthday is now observed as International Dance Day.
His first professional appearances occurred as a youth in Paris at the Opéra-Comique, at Fontainebleau, in Berlin before Frederick II and his brother Prince Henry of Prussia, in Dresden and Strasburg. He moved to Strasbourg where he remained until 1750 before moving to Lyon. In 1751, he composed his first great work, Les Fêtes Chinoises for Marseilles. The work was revived in Paris in 1754 to great acclaim. In 1755, he was invited by Garrick to London, where he remained for two years.
Between 1758 and 1760 he produced several ballets at Lyon, and published his Lettres sur la danse et les ballets. It is from this period that the revolution in the art of the ballet for which Noverre was responsible can be dated. He was next engaged by Duke Karl Eugen of Württemberg, and later Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, until 1774. In 1775, he was appointed maître des ballets of the Paris Opera at the request of Queen Marie Antoinette. He returned to Vienna in Spring of 1776 to stage ballets there but in June 1776 he returned again to Paris. He regained this post until the French Revolution reduced him to poverty. He died on October 19, 1810, at Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Here is a video showing a break group doing robot dance for day of the dance last year. They song is in Danish and about using your body as a machine. Song and dance goes well together:


Here's just a random zumba video that I found.. I love when kids spontaniously starts to dance along


That reminds me about last Wednesday when me and my friend went to listen to some music in the park. She had her 1-year-old daught with. Her daughter loves to dance, but she also has a passion for music. Every time I go to visit them, she wants me to play music on my phone. I keep my phone in a wallet case, which she was very amused by. Thinking, howcome music comes out of this thing? I therefore call it my "music machine" when I'm with her. In the park, we were sitting on a blanket and she came over to sit with me so we could just sit there and enjoy the music together, dancing while sitting. If I star to sing, she will start singing, too. She hasn't started talking yet, but she loves to sing by humming. She's so cute. When she stands up to dance, I try to teach her things like, single, single, double. Of course she can't take commands yet, but if I shake her gently to the side, I think she will get it one day. A funny thing that I taught her in the park was, shaking her arm like they do at hip hop shows. You know, if you're at a show, the music is great,  you will take your arms up and start to shake them as if your hands are pushing something down to the ground. If I do that, the little 1-year-old will take her arm up and do the same. She's so clever.

Because I have such a passion for music and dancing, I just love to see how people of all ages enjoy music and dance, too, the way I always have! I remember when my brother FINALY started to listen to much when he was a kid. It made me proud, as if he had reached a new level in his life.

So people, do a little dance today in honor of Jean-Georges Noverre!