The International Dance Organization (IDO) was founded as a non-profit
organization on September 18, 1981 by Mr. Moreno Polidori, in Florence, Italy.
The original founding member nations were Italy, France, Switzerland and
Gibraltar. Mr. Polidori was appointed General Secretary and drew up the
original statutes, by-laws and rules that governed the organization.
At that time, the main purpose of
the organization was to provide Continental and World Championship competitions
to both amateur and professional dancers, in all forms of dance, not covered by
the World Dance & Dance Sport Council, the International Dance Sport
Federation and the World Rock ‘n Roll Confederation.
IDO has increased its membership
to well over 60 nations and contacts and every indication shows that its future
growth is eminent.
The IDO is now not only involved with the granting of Continental
and International Competitions and Championships, but is deeply involved with
many aspects of our dance industry. It is constantly st
riving to improve the
quality of its dancers, through participation, its adjudicators through
education, and national member images by being involved with the largest dance
organization in the world. The various disciplines, through their committees,
are convened on a regular basis to ensure that the IDO rules are always current
and up to date with its membership wishes.
www.ido-dance.com
IDO: AFFILIATES IN NIGERIA
The Society for the Performing
Arts in Nigeria (SPAN) is a non-governmental non-profit organisation that
aims to set a world-class standard for performing arts education in Nigeria,
offering unprecedented opportunities in dance, music, theatre and visual arts
to Nigeria’s art talented citizens, through formal and informal professional
classes.
Through the arts, our legacy
depends upon our commitment to creative ingenuity in the performing Arts, to
empower us with life-changing messages, to continuously train and educate, to
serve with love and dedicate our time to help and perform revolutionary wonders
in our nation.
OUR VISION
SPAN desires to establish
performing arts centres where the richness, faith and diversity of Nigeria’s
culture and tradition can be nurtured, preserved and showcased for all to see
and experience. SPAN further aspires to be a hub of creativity where our
community not only finds a place to escape, be inspired and educated but also to
be engaged in speaking life through the arts. Our hope is to challenge mindsets
to be empowered to serve our nation and affect our environment to provide a
promising future for the generation to come.
Mr Nnamdi
Nweke a.k.a Ice, the Artistic Director of XTREME has been working
with SPAN for the past 10years .
Recently in January 2010, after
various investigations and scrutiny, Nigeria has been selected as one of IDO
representing nations and Mr Nnamdi Nweke was made the executive President of
IDO Nigeria.
WHY IDO IN NIGERIA
IDO has recognised the
advancements made in Nigeria, towards creating formal dance training and
performance in both local and international genres. IDO is therefore
eager to support these efforts and bring them to international standard and to
the world stage.
This support will be given in the
following ways and it will be aimed to:
- Creating job opportunities for
the youths, via dance classes/performances.
- Provide formal dancing training
and education to the youths.
- Certify Nigerian dancers in
different dance genres.
- To give the Nigeria and its
dancers a world-wide recognition.
- Organize regular national
competitions in the various genres of dance.
After an environmental analysis,
statistics show that Nigeria has a total over a 800,000 professional and
amateur dancers and a teeming population of teen to twenties’ age citizens, who
are keen to build formal dance skills. This is evident in the number of
performers and viewers involved in the various televised dance competitions in
Nigeria, such as Celebrity Takes Two, Malta Guinness Street Dance, Maltina
Family Dance All, M-Net Let’s Dance etc.
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