Final Report
123 registered conferees
23 countries of the 5 continents
75 presentations, that is:
28 lectures
11 classes
3 video projections
1 exhibition
32 performances
6 university professors from 6 countries in the Scientific Committee.
20 CID Members worked as volunteers in the Congress Team
Proceedings
Wednesday
2 JULY 2025
Thursday
3 JULY 2025
Friday
4 JULY 2026
Saturday
5 JULY 2025
Sunday
6 JULY 2025
Wednesday
2 JULY 2025
10:00-16:00
Recovery of identification badge
20:00
Declaration of the official opening.
International Certification Award Ceremony.
Dora Stratou Theatre, Philopappou Hill
1 Ms. Kierstyn Zaykoski (U.S.A.): Su Momento
2 Ms. Mariarosa Verduci (Italy): And Now I Hug You
3 Ms. Mojca Gal (Switzerland): Medley of dance inspired by Gluck’s opera Orphée et Eurydice
4 Ann White Classical Ballet School (U.K.): Tarantella dances
5 Ms. Larissa Vesci (Spain): Oriental Flamenco Dance
6 Ms. Séverine Boston (France): Caribbean Mazurka
7 Ms. Mallika Kandali (India): Sattriya Dance
8 Ms. Ana Carolina Martinez Silva (Brazil): As One Is – Love in a State of Being
9 Ms. Denise Telles Nascimento Hofstra (Brazil): Villa-Lobos’ & Tarsila Do Amaral Poetics: a Contemporary Laban based Opera-Dance
10 Natyanjali Kuchipudi Dance School (U.S.A.): Kuchipudi Indian dance
11 Ms. Tasherit Sturm Dahal (U.S.A.): Classical North Indian Kathak: Tarana
12 Ms. Ragasudha Vinjamuri (U.K.): Bharatanatyam Indian dance
13 Ms. Arina Umetbaeva (Azerbaijan): Gucci-Louis Vuitton girl
14 Ms. Dr. Patricia Elizabeth Torres Villanueva (Mexico): Agriculture and dance
15 Mr. Sean McLeod (U.S.A.): Spontania Homme – 2nd Movement
16 Association pour la Promotion et la Valorisation des Danses-APVD (Mali): Malia
Thursday
3 JULY 2025
Lectures & Presentations
9:40 Mr. Kristián Kohút (Slovakia): The Searching for the First Slovak Ballet – different criteria, different result
10:00 Ms. Mireia Cots (Spain): Dance in education. Body in teaching movement.
10:20 Ms. Liene Adamsone (Canada): Spiritual Dance the Adamsone Method
10:40 Dr. Dafni Mourelou (Greece): Educating Early Childhood Educators on Creative Movement
11:00 Prof. Dr. Svebor Sečak (Croatia): Transmodernism and Digimodernism in the Staging of Ballet Snow Queen
11:20 Mr. Pierpaolo Albano (Italy): Music and dance for inclusion of people with disabilities.. The “Erasmus plus” program and support for disadvantaged people.
11:40 Ms. Mojca Gal (Switzerland): “Faint Echos of Hellas: Dance in Gluck’s opera Orphée (1774).”
12:00 Short briefing by CID President Prof. Alkis Raftis
12:20 Prof. Karen Lynn Smith (U.S.A.): Changing the image of ballet in the 20th century: The creative genius of Leon Bakst
12:40 Ms. Ľubica Orovnická (Slovakia): Benefits of Innovative Classical Dance Training
13:00 Ms. Mariarosa Verduci (Italy): The importance of Physiodance in achieving body awareness and its relationship to the dancer’s emotional state
13:20 Mr. Fernando Barros Lirola & Ms. Astrid Elena Marquez Berti (Spain): Learning dances from emotion
13:40 Ms. Laure Verlisier (France): Dance in La Réunion: between historical remembrance and modern struggles
14:00 Mr. Sean McLeod (U.S.A.): International Contemporary Ballet: McLeod Technique
14:20 Dr. Tanya Keller (China): The dynamics of intentional space: exploring guangchangwu participants and spatial subversion in large group dance practices
Friday
4 JULY 2026
Lectures & Presentations
9:40 Ms. Hye Rin Yoon (South Korea): International Dance Code
10:00 Ms. Idil Kadioglu (Turkiye): From Byzantine to the Turkish Republic: Istanbul as a City Where Performing Artist Women Inspired Male Revolutionaries to Change the Law.
10:20 Ms. Kierstyn Zaykoski (U.S.A.): Good Mental Health in Dance: McLeod Technique’s Emotional Development & Personality Development
10:40 Ms. Zhanna Golubenko (Cyprus): Psychological ballet. An art of Boris Eifman.
11:00 Mr. Eldar Dzhafarov (Azebaijan): Solo Smooth® Program & Educational system
11:20 Ms. Christel Stevens & Ms. Lori Clark (U.S.A.): Immigrant And Indigenous Dance Artists: Exploring Their Diversity And Importance For Dance Education
11:40 Ms. Ragasudha Vinjamuri (U.K.): Unveiling Sangeeta Chandra: The rare dance text of 14th century
12:00 Short briefing by CID President Prof. Alkis Raftis
12:20 Mr. Konstantinos Toulatos (Greece): Masks οn Kefalonia island, Greece
12:40 Ms. Moushumi Kandali (India): The classical dance tradition of Assam, India
13:00 Ms. Izabela Lucchese Gavioli (Brazil): Boosting creativity in the dance choreography process through neuromodulation with tDCS (TranscranialDirect-CurrentStimulation)
13:20 Ms. Hui Wilcox (U.S.A.): Stepping across Borders: Towards Decolonial Dance Collaboration
13:40 Ms. May K. T. Cheung (Hong Kong, China): Egyptian Folkloric Dance – origins and history
14:00 Mr. Enkhtuya Amarjargal (Mongolia): Dance of Children of Heaven. From Cave Paintings to Innovation
14:20 Ms. Danica Anderson (U.S.A.): The Use of South Slavic Oral Memory Practices- the Folk Circle Round Dance- Kolo
Closing International Concert
Dora Stratou Theatre, Philopappou Hill
20:00
International Certification Award Ceremony
Performances
Ms. Idil Kadioglu (Turkiye): Istanbulian Belly Dance
Mr. Kevin Meyame (France): Gratitude
Ancient Orchesis Study Group – Dora Stratou (Greece): Orchesis for Peace
Movementum Dance Project (U.S.A.): Passages
Ms. Arina Korbakova (Azerbaijan): Solo Smooth® – Dancing lesson
Piraeus Section CID (Greece): Dancing round Greece
Ms. Adrijana Barbarić Pevek & Katarina Đurđević (Croatia): Perspektiva promatranja (Perspective of Observation)
Ms. May K. T. Cheung (Hong Kong, China): Dance of Upper Egypt – Saidi dance
Interdisciplinary Anthropological Research Institute Huei Tlahtolli (Mexico): Singing and dancing pre hispanic dance
Ms. Victoria Zafet, Ms. Natalia Iliadi, Ms. Eri Kaimaka, Ms. Georgia Lioni (Greece): Boutique Ballet, Monologue of Aishe & Wasted Land
Ms. Marialuisa Sales (Italy): The Dance of Cupid and Psyche. Bharatanatyam Dance interprets a classical myth from the Metamorphoses of Apuleius
Ms. Daria Korableva (Azerbaijan): Solo Smooth® – Smoothie Breakfast with Tiffany
Ms. Maria Kalogerakou (Greece): Salsa dance theatrical
Mr. Enkhtuya Amarjargal (Mongolia): Numan Tuulis / Traditional Arch Epic
Ms. Ana Maria Radanovič (Slovenia): Matrix
Ms. Dr. Patricia Elizabeth Torres Villanueva (Mexico): Agriculture and dance
Saturday
5 JULY 2025
WORKSHOPS
Dora Stratou Theatre, Philopappou Hill / Class hall
10:00 Ms. Liene Adamsone (Canada): Spiritual dance the Adamsone Method
10:30 Ms. Ann White (U.K.): The ballet foundation programme teaching
11:00 Ms. Séverine Boston (France): Gran bèlè or slave dance
11:30 Ms. Dr. Patricia Elizabeth Torres Villanueva (Mexico): Dance and Spirituality
12:00 Ms. Tasherit Sturm Dahal (U.S.A.): Elevating your Dance with cross-style training
12:30 Prof. Karen Lynn Smith (U.S.A.): Broadway Here I Come!
13:00 Ms. Claudia Belchior (Italy): SambaTherapy: An inner journey to Rio de Janeiro through Samba
13:30 Ms. Mariah-Janes Thies (Canada): The Brain Dance
14:00 Mr. Sean McLeod (U.S.A.): McLeod Technique / MT Afro Hip Hop
14:30 Ms. Maria Kalogerakou (Greece): Salsa footwork and body movement
15:00 Mr. Enkhtuya Amarjargal (Mongolia): : Numan Tuulis / Traditional Arch Epic
Sunday
6 JULY 2025
10:00
Final Session: Informal meeting of conferees. Group photographs.
Recovery of certificates of participation.
List of Conferees
Azerbaijan
Arina Korbakova
Arina Ymetbaeva
Daria Korableva
Eldar Dzhafarov
Brazil
Ana Carolina Martinez Silva
Denise Telles Nascimento Hofstra
Izabela Lucchese Gavioli
Canada
Liene Adamsone
Mariah-Janes Thies
China
May K. T. Cheung
Tanya Keller
Croatia
Adrijana Barbarić Pevek
Davorin Pintarič
Katarina Đurđević
Svebor Sečak
Cyprus
Zhanna Golubenko
France
Kevin Meyame
Laure Verlisier (La Réunion)
Marie Christine Dal Farra
Séverine Boston
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Greece
Prof. Alkis Raftis
Adamantia Aristagora Angeli
Aggeliki Christofilopoulou
Anna Lazou
Christina Katsoula
Dafni Mourelou
Eleni Kouki
Eri Kaimaka
Georgia Lioni
Katerina Stavrou
Konstantinos Toulatos
Lambrini Raikou
Maria Kalogerakou
Maro Papadopoulou
Natalia Iliadi
Nektarios Bessis
Kalliopi Varoudaki
Sergey Khudenko
Stamatis Theocharidis
Stergios Theocharidis
Tasia Nikita
Victoria Zafet
India
Mallika Kandali
Moushumi Kandali
Sarabjit Singh Jabbar
Shreya Arun
Italy
Claudia Belchior
Marialuisa Sales
Mariarosa Verduci
Pierpaolo Albano
Korea, Republic of
Hye Jeung Chung
Hyerin Yoon
Mali
Aboubacar Tandia
Alhassane Diakite
Awa Doumbia
Gaoussou Konate
Ibrahim Toure
Idrissa Almamy Diarra
Kanthio Mariam Toure
Mahamadou Gakou
Mamadou Yifraipeke Bengaly
Moussa Kouyate
Samake Arouna
Mexico
Amada Monserrat Lopez Rios
Blanca Esthela Fernandez Rojas
Patricia Elizabeth Torres Villanueva
Mongolia
Enkhtuya Amarjargal
Morocco
Mohamed Bougrine
Mohammed Lahlali
Slovakia
Ivica Liszkayová
Kristián Kohút
Ľubica Orovnická
Slovenia
Ana Maria Radanovič
Vladimira Gal
Spain
Astrid Elena Marquez Berti
Fernando Barros Lirola
Larissa Vesci
Mireia Cots Abuli
Switzerland
Mojca Gal
Turkiye
İdil Kadıoğlu
United Kingdom
Anelia Oganezova
Ann White
Ernest-Wren Myall Robertson
Georgina Kakoulakis
Molly Mayumi Hartigan
Ragasudha Vinjamuri
United Arab Emirates
Ahmed Mohamed Abdelsabour Ali Elsaghier
David Melcher
Estefania Madrigal
United States of America
Alyssa Smith
Ananya Ponangi
Ashley Guest
Ava Foerster
Bailey Hildebrand
Christel Stevens
Danica Anderson
Edward R. Truitt
Eshita Kadiri
Gowri Lakshmi Nagarajan
Hui Wilcox
Karen Lynn Smith
Katie Dabson
Kierstyn Zaykoski
Krystal Quero
Lauren DeSmedt
Lori Clark
Marissa Shanbrom
Priyanka Potturi
Sai Upasana Manem
Samhita Bandaru
Sean McLeod
Sruthi Potturi
Tasherit Sturm Dahal
Vaishnavi Yalamareddy

























