Sweden’s National Institute for Dance in Schools
Great Success for Dance in School-Biennal in Kiruna
Pictures from the Dance in Schools Biennal in Kiruna. Photo: Hans-Olov Utsi
On 9-10 February 2012, the Swedish Dance in Schools Institute organised with partners a Dance in School Biennal in the northest part of Swedn, Kiruna, Lapplan. International honorary guests such as the French dancer and chroeographer Stephane Imbert and Israelan former dancer with the Batsheeva Dance Company, and now Gaga trainer Gili Navot, participated in the Biennal together with the Swedish Minister for Culture, representatives from schools and education, cultural institutions and 430 children from schools in Sweden. In total more than 600 people were involved in the Biennal in Kiruna which recevied great attention in media.
Dancing took place in the Cultural House of Kiruna as well as outside and inside the famous Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi.
Dance in School in Sweden
The Dance in Schools Institute has been set up, in which education, culture and health policy initiatives join forces to introduce dance in schools. The Dance in Schools Institute is to inspire and support municipalities, schools and teacher training, such that all children and young people have the chance to dance at school and to encounter dance as an art form. Read more.
The objectives of the Dance in Schools Institute are:
- to ensure that all pupils have access to dance as a subject in its own right and as an art form in schools,
- to improve the status of dance in schools by developing methods and through research