About DaCi Conferences

Every three years, daCi organizes an international conference located somewhere in the world.

Dance educators, dance teachers with their children’s groups, young people who love to dance, artists, academics, politicians, and many others who are moved by dance, assemble together to experience dance as creators, performers, researchers, participants and spectators. During this active week, filled with workshops, lectures, performances and meetups, international networks and friendships arise and last a dancing life.

History of Conferences

2022

15th conference: Dancing into Communities

July 10-15, Toronto, Canada
hosted virtually for the first time due to COVID-19 pandemic

2018

14th conference: 2nd Joint World Dance Congress

July 8-13, Adelaide, Australia
Panpapanpalya: dance gathering generations learning

2015

13th conference: 2nd Joint World Dance Congress

July 5-10, Kopenhagen, Denmark
Identity in dance as it is experienced in formal, non-¬formal and informal settings of education

2012

12th conference: 1st Joint World Dance Congress

July 15-20, Taipei, Taiwan
Dance, Young People and Change.

2009

11th conference: Cultures Flex: Unearthing Expressions of the Dancing Child

August 2 - 8, Kingston, Jamaica

2006

10th conference: Colouring Senses

The Hague, Netherlands

2003

9th conference: Breaking boundaries: dance, bodies and multiculturalism

August 3 - 10, Faculdade Social Da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

2000

8th conference: Breaking boundaries: dance, bodies and multiculturalism

July 30 - August 5, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

1997

7th conference: The Call of the Forests and Lakes

July 28 - August 3, Kuopio, Finland

1994

6th conference: Kindle the Fire

July 12 - 20, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

1991

5th conference: Roots and Wings

July 29 - August 3, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

1988

4th conference: Young People Dancing: An International Perspective

July 19-28, Roehampton Institute, Froebel College, London, UK
Volume I - DANCE: Education
Volume II - DANCE - Special Education
Volume III - DANCE: Culture Community

1985

3rd conference: Dance - The New Zealand Experience

August 25-30, Auckland, New Zealand

1982

2nd conference: Children and Youth Dancing

Children and Youth Dancing, Stockholm, Sweden

1978

1st conference: A beginning through a conference

July 25 - 27, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada