Traditional dances from around the world

The exchange will take place in the city of Oporto in July 2019.
Dance has been called the universal language; you live in a world that dances.
Specific countries have dances that identify with a region and its culture immediately. For example, African dances or Indian dances have styles that make them readily identifiable, as do other cultural dances from across the globe.
Countries all over the world have traditional dances, but they are actually evolving products of history, migration, wars, and political and societal changes of the people who perform them.
All cultural dances presented in the overview of dance types connect to the three common elements of a culture (see Discovering Cultural Dance).

If you add all these elements together, you get two deep understandings:

Culture is about participating as a community; it can be related to ritual, spiritual, and life events and celebrations.
Culture can be defined as a way of life that is learned, shared with future generations, and changes with time.
Participating, viewing, and learning about cultural dance and the roles it plays in societies leads to awareness and appreciation of other people and their cultural values.
Experiencing a cultural dance means taking a look at the movement from the perspectives of both the cultural dancer and the requirements of the dance
This program seeks to provide opportunities to young people who are dedicated to using dance as a form of exchange and communication on a global level.
Each of the participants in this program will undergo rigorous training to prepare them for an international project.

The partner organizations will organize the sending groups, working from the outset on the theme of "Traditional dances from around the world" Each group will include young people with fewer opportunities, either due to social, economic or cultural problems, as the partner organizations bet on realization of inclusion work in an international context, using non-formal education methodologies.

The partner organizations should help and prepare the group to prepare an informal presentation of a traditional dance from their country.