dal 22/08/2011 al 31/08/2011

Dance in Action!
 

Background: Poverty and social exclusion is an instant problem in Europe. People can be excluded by the reason of social background, economical situation, learning difficulties, religion, race etc. We would like to take part in prevention of above mentioned problems in giving an opportunity to trainers and youth workers to gain and exchange best practicies and develop their knowldge at the field of experiential learning. Experiential learning is a tool for approaching youngsters and develop their social skills.

Aim: The long-term goal of our association, and our project is to support the integration of youth who are living without family and prevent them from poverty and unemployment.

Integration occurs with common learning and understanding, trough joy and playfullness.Our aim is to promote dance and movements as a tool for youth workers, social workers of our region in order to have an effective tool in their hands to deal with orphanage youth, or youth with behavioural problems. In the recent time we have dealing with orphan kids or kids with behavioural problems. We realized that dance, music gives a great connection to them, and body expressions enables us youth workers to have a great time with the kids, to have common learning and to achieve personal development. Therefore the need for the above course, Élményakadémia is the organizer, experienced international dance teacher team are running the course. Inspiration: we live our everyday life in frames - frames that given by the society, our parents, friends, peer people who are surrounding us. Frames that are defining how we should get along with people, think about relationships, friendships, work, world - the values how we should live our life. Our aim is to discover our frames together with dance and movements. With the Dance in Action! dance course our intention is to create freedom in mind and body. Free dance and body movements are liberating us to connect to our intuition, and to connect to others in a pure way.

40% dance techniques - 40% self experience - 20 % own performance = practically 12 hours dancing a day

The 10 days Dance in Action! course will be held from 22nd-31st August, 2011 in Hungary, at Galyatető. Participating countries are: Hungary, Romania, Greece, Slovakia, Portugal, Spain, Italy all together 26 participants are invited to go trough on the following processes: dance basics: techniques; self experience: body and movements, theatre, rythms and sounds, contact improvisation; own performance – international workshops, hip-hop and street styles voluntary project with orphan youth. International dance trainer team runs the project with the method of integrated dance therapy: focus on holistic view of body, soul and mind, and have the concept of that all our internal processes are expressed trough our body (posture, flexibility) and can be stimulated from outside, and works with exposure.

As a result we expect to gain higher awareness of body and actions and giving an effective tool for the youth workers to have a bigger impact to youth they are dealing with in their job. This course is a first step toward acquire dance as a tool for integration trough self-development.

THEMES & PROGRAMME

Themes

Self-expression, communication, body language, spontaneity

Self-awareness

Creativity

Freedom, trust, confidence and courage

You in a relationship, you in a team

Diversity of connection

Leadership and active participation

Improvisation

Programme

Programme will be specified after the selection has done.

Things you can count on:

Processes from movement, dance and theatre

Tricks and techniques from contemporary dance

Contact dance

Inspiration trough nearby forests

Solo – night in the forest

Prepare a public performance – you will all do something you never did before, even if you did perform already

Public performance tour and aftertalk with the audience

PARTICIPANTS & TEAM