{"id":60009,"date":"2025-04-29T11:33:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T11:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/?p=60009"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:21:48","slug":"international-dance-day-2025-by-mikhail-baryshnikov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/international-dance-day-2025-by-mikhail-baryshnikov\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERNATIONAL DANCE DAY 2025  MESSAGE by MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It\u2019s often said that dance can express the unspeakable. Joy, grief, and despair become visible;\u00a0 embodied expressions of our shared fragility. In this, dance can awaken empathy, inspire kindness, and spark a desire to heal rather than harm. Especially now\u2014as hundreds of thousands endure war, navigate political upheaval, and rise in protest against injustice\u2014honest reflection is vital. It\u2019s a heavy burden to place on the body, on dance, on art. Yet art is still the best way to give form to the unspoken, and we can begin by asking ourselves: Where is my truth? How do I honor myself and my community? Whom do I answer to?<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Mikhail Baryshnikov\u2019s 2025 International Dance Day message is a poignant tribute to the universal language of movement.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With eloquence and depth, he underscores dance\u2019s ability to articulate the ineffable\u2014transforming human experience into a kinetic symphony of emotion. His words champion empathy, kindness, and artistic resilience, reminding us that dance is more than a discipline; it is a vessel for healing and connection in an increasingly fragmented world. In the hands of a master like Baryshnikov, movement ceases to be mere performance\u2014it becomes a force for unity, a celebration of life\u2019s intangible truths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s often said that dance can express the unspeakable. Joy, grief, and despair become visible;\u00a0 embodied expressions of our shared fragility. In this, dance can awaken empathy, inspire kindness, and spark a desire to heal rather than harm. Especially now\u2014as hundreds of thousands endure war, navigate political upheaval, and rise in protest against injustice\u2014honest reflection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":60010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60009"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60017,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60009\/revisions\/60017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}