Dance Four Peace

Dance 4 Peace is an innovative, global nonprofit that uses movement to inspire young people to be leaders and peacemakers in their communities. The curriculum is a movement-based peace education program that promotes empathy, understanding, mediation skills, anger management, and emotional and civic engagement. Through exercises and activities utilizing movement, music, emotions, experiences, and thoughts, students are able to learn emotional and social competencies for peace. Inspired as part of a Fulbright Scholarship in 2007 in the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia, this civic education program demonstrates the power of corporal expression to change the lives of young people and the communities around them.

Participants in the Dance 4 Peace program are empowered to feel confidence and a sense of global awareness as change-agents within their schools and neighborhoods. The Dance 4 Peace curriculum transcends countries, socioeconomic differences, and varying languages and cultures; it is being adapted and implemented in diverse communities and in unique contexts. We are connecting our communities of dance across the globe in order to share best practices and intercultural stories of peacebuilding.