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CID functions
In application of the policy of UNESCO in the area of dance, CID functions as:
- a laboratory of ideas - defining emerging problems and identifying strategies to
deal with them
- a clearinghouse - sharing information, knowledge and best practices, identifying
innovative solutions and testing them through pilot projects.
- a standard-setter - promoting the establishment of common rules of practice.
- a capacity-builder - advising Member Sections towards the development of
policies, national strategies, projects, studies, raising funds for their execution and, finally, evaluation.
- a catalyst for international cooperation - developing cooperation for the
convergence of work which otherwise would be dispersed, thus less effective, and risk being ignored.
CID Priorities
1. Everyone should be able dance (the right to dance)
2. Everyone should start by learning his/her "mother dance language"
3. Everyone should have access to other "dance languages", taught by competent
teachers
4. Dancers should strive towards a better quality of movement
All the above in the same way as with spoken language
CID means
1. Disseminating information.
As communications make our world smaller, a professional needs to have a global
perspective on events. Various issues affect our work, we need an truly objective
insight such as only CID can provide.
2. Networking among individual members and among Sections.
Staying above particular interests and governed democratically, CID can stimulate
personal contacts among specialists in a neutral, non-profit, non-competitive
environment.
3. Influencing government authorities, decision-makers, the media.
As the official representative of the art of dance, CID can effectively lobby
governments, be taken into account by decision-makers, and obtain more coverage
for dance by the media.
4. Finally, CID is the golden opportunity to escape isolation for professionals
and amateurs who enter the global community of dancers.
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