64th World Congress of Dance Research
Athens, 1-5 July 2026
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Dimosthenis Manasis / MANASIS School of Greek Dance and Culture (Australia): Greek folk dances
Escola de Dança Ana Köhler (Portugal): Classical dance fragments
Dagmar Spain (Germany): Embrace
Yidi Lin (U.S.A.): If You Can’t See Me
Vera Eva Ham / Susana Nereu de Oliveira Ribeiro / Sofia Couto Martins (Portugal): Choreomousai
SKOVRAN ensemble (Serbia): Selected excerpts the repertoire: Batina igra leptira / Ženska igra iz Gračanice / Šara / Kačerac / Mangupsko / Pašona
Ilaria Prodomo (Italy): Con-Qualia
Dance with Sonia Brown (U.K.): Fierce, Fun and Fabulous
Silk Road Kroran Dance Group (Japan): Traditional Uyghur Twelve Muqam / Traditional Uyghur Meshrep performance titled “Toy Mubarek”
Revati Khattar / Ms. Arushi Sharma (India): Beyond Six Yards
Richard Oaxaca, Ms. Yidi Lin (U.S.A.): Until death do us part
Hisako Hanioka (Japan): Kokoro / The Heart
Danai Avloniti (U.S.A.): Danae: Essence of Latin
Ana Maria Radanovič (Slovenia): Nikiya Variation from La Bayadare
Ancient Orchesis Study Group – Dora Stratou (Greece): Orchesis from heaven to earth
Dimosthenis Manasis / MANASIS School of Greek Dance and Culture (Australia): Greek dances
Maria Kalogerakou (Greece): Salsa dance/ Bachata / Cha cha cha/ Argentianian Tango / Greek traditional dances
Arouna BA (Senegal):
Amadou Gueye (Senegal):
Papis Gilbert Arthur Coly (Senegal)
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Louckik Lohogaonkarr (U.K.): How physical movement intelligence harmonises body, mind and soul in shiamak style.
Ilaria Prodomo / Ms.Vanessa Pistilli (Italy): Con-Qualia
Christel Stevens (U.S.A.): Not Your Shastra: How India Colonized Manipuri Dance
Shamti Ruiz Nambiar (U.K.): The Inner Awakening of the Dancer: Dance as a Path of Psychological, Emotional, Physical, and Spiritual Transformation
Dr. Dafni Mourelou (Greece): From Movement to Meaning: The Embodied Dimensions of Pedagogical Power in Early Childhood and Preschool Education
Dr. Yang Liu (China): From Ritual to Performance: Embodiment and Cultural Identity in Xiangxi Miao Drum Dance and Balinese Legong Dance
Short briefing by CID President Prof. Alkis Raftis
Carolina Pepper (Ecuador): Historical Body in the Dance Work ‘Of Red Anger’ (De Rojo Enojo)
Vera Eva Ham (Portugal): “Archaeology of Movement: Whose Voices Are Dancing Here?” Dance, Ancestral Memory, and the Politics of Embodied Histories.
Yiyun Li (U.K.): Kinesthetic Knowing: Reconfiguring Perception in Underwater Ecosomatic Dance
Gladis Sierra Currumil (Argentina/Spain): MENTALDANSE, an emotional intelligence program using music and dance, applying neuroscience
Jasmine Challis (U.K.): Dance Nutrition – what has research shown over the past 100 years, and what is best practice now?
Raee Sahu (Bulgaria): Exploring Karachi’s Cabaret Dancers of the 1960s/1970s: the Case of Marzi Kanga
Judith Chestnut (Australia): Somatic Restoration Studies (absentee)
Nataša Kočar (Slovenia): An Innovative Approach to Teaching Oriental Dance: 1001 Oriental Dance Moves Didactic Cards (absentee)
Veronica Higgins (U.S.A.): Arabian Excerpt from the Nutcracker choreographed by Mark Roxey (absentee)
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Qing (Maria) Yang (China): From Art to Correction: Mechanism and Efficacy of Yang Qing’s Individualized Ballet Training in the Rehabilitation of Mild Scoliosis: An Empirical Study Based on the “Lying-Down Training” System
Beatriz Castaño Jumela (Italy): MTE.CJ: Body, Movement and Transformation. An embodied methodology for education, creation and social impact.
Fady Nakussima (Angola): Somatic Sovereignty: Reclaiming the rhythm within the architecture of exhaustion
lker Kerem Öksüz (U.S.A.): The therapeutic effects of Argentine Tango on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases
Ana Köhler (Portugal): Empathy in the teaching practices of dance
Gözde Nur Ercan (Turkiye): The Intersection of Ritual and Dance: Performance and Cultural Continuity in Thrace, with a Case Study of Cemal Oyunu
Short briefing by CID President Prof. Alkis Raftis
Zhanna Golubenko (Cyprus): The Messerer dynasty – legendary family of performers and teachers
Liene Adamsone (Canada): Spiritual Dance the Adamsone Method
Jardel Sander da Silva (Brazil): Space to Dance: education and dance improvisation
Danai Avloniti (U.S.A.): Why the Frame Fails: Postural Organisation, Somatic History, and the Foundationsof Partner Dance Instruction
Milos Cile Mitic (Serbia): Staged Folk Dance in the Balkans: History, Principles and Contemporary Practice.
Kristián Kohút (Slovakia): DANCE – A Bridge Between African and European Cultural Traditions
Sandhya Suresh (Singapore): Who gets to belong in a Classical Form? / Odissi, Pedagogy, and the Contemporary Body
Panagiotis Katsikis (Greece): Zeibekiko dance: yesterday, today, tomorrow
María José Martínez Celorio (Mexico): Castanets – A Brief Explanation (absentee)
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Mgr. art. Ľubica Orovnická, ArtD. and Mgr. art. Ivica Liszkayová, PhD. (Slovakia): When Tradition Meets Innovation: Ballet and Modern Dance for Beginners
Milos Cile Mitic (Serbia): Performer on Stage: Technique and Presence in Staged Folk Dance
Roberta de Laura (Italy): Ballett & Modern Experience
Yidi Lin (U.S.A.): Dance Fusion: Contemporary and Hip-hop
Richard Oaxaca (U.S.A.): Graham based floor work
Briefing by CID President Prof. Alkis Raftis
Larissa Vesci (Spain): Introducción a los FANDANGOS / Introduction to the FANDANGOS
Fady Nakussima (Angola): SOMATIC ANCESTRY: Reclaiming identity through Rebita, Chianda and Semba
Shamti Ruiz Nambiar (U.K.): The Language of Mudrās
Rajadarshini Saravanan (India): Yogashilpa – The Sculpting Art of Dance through Yoga
Beatriz Castaño Jumela (Italy): MTE.CJ: Body, Movement and Transformation. An embodied methodology for education, creation and social impact.
Mireia Cots Abuli (Spain): Educant a través de la dansa/ Educating through dance
Liene Adamsone (Canada): Spiritual Dance the Adamsone Method
Ingo Günther (Germany): Class on Historical Dance / La Menuet – The Queen of Dances Revati Khattar (India): Bolly-rhythm
Jaël Blondeau (France): Bannières et Gospel Musique
Federica Aluzzo (Italy): Diamond dance
Dagmar Spain (Germany): Movement dialogues
Stella Danai Avloniti (U.S.A.): The three basic body actions of rumba and chachacha in international Latin style
ΠΗΓΗ: ΔΩΡΑ ΣΤΡΑΤΟΥ, ΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ, 29.6.2026.
64o Παγκοσμιο Συνεδριο Χορου Αθηνα 2026
