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[email protected] THE WORLD DANCES ON HARLEQUIN FLOORS® SYDNEY LONDON LUXEMBOURG LOS ANGELES PHILADELPHIA FORT WORTH Ausdance Queensland and the World Dance Alliance Asia-Pacific in partnership with QUT Creative Industries, QPAC and Ausdance National and in association with the Brisbane Festival 2008 present World Dance Alliance Global Summit Dance Dialogues: Conversations across cultures, artforms and practices Brisbane 13 – 18 July 2008 A Message from the Minister On behalf of our Government I extend a warm Queensland welcome to all our local, national and international participants and guests gathered in Brisbane for the 2008 World Dance Alliance Global Summit. This is a seminal event on Queensland’s cultural calendar. Our Government acknowledges the value that dance, the most physical of the creative forms, plays in communicating humanity’s concerns.