The singing Body – physical empowerment for European values Erasmus Project

Project Title

The singing Body – physical empowerment for European values

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Creativity and culture; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

Under the title „The singing Body- physical empowerment for European values“, organizations in artistic, social and intercultural spheres of activity located in
Germany, Portugal, Bulgaria, Spain and Italy are partnering, to establish together a interdisciplinary project in the dance pedagogy for empowerment. The transnational intercultural project plan wants to give artists a place of exchanging practices in dance and pedagogy and to expand their network. Innovative methods will help to deepen together the artistic practice.

Creative dance from different ethnics and with the voice as an instrument for empowering processes as well as lectures about European values are giving the frame of the project.
By bringing together sociocultural pedagogy and artistic perspectives, different ethnic music and dance traditions are merging to a tool of social inclusion.
The project cycle consists in his total of a group formation process, the exploration stage ( improvisation and practice), knowledge accumulation, construction of methods, implementation of practices, evaluation as well as spreading out the results to local, national and international stakeholders.

The project includes activities of a four-week stage in Portugal and meetings for practice implementation in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, and Germany. Every activity has it’s own focus to give a new perspective on the theme of the project. In coproduction transferable formats and innovative Methods will be developed and implemented in the current practices. The main goal of the methods along with the political education mission is to encourage the individual to implement the European values in a self-reliant way in his artistic practice.

The main intention is to use and to develop innovative methods in singing and dancing
education and making it usable for everyone across the EU. Especially using elements from voice training for empowerment in a creative way.

Project Website

https://dance-of-cultures.com/thesingingbody/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 227063 Eur

Project Coordinator

Tanz der Kulturen e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Cooperativa sociale IL FARO
• Popolomondo – Associação Cultural
• Fundación Escuela de Solidaridad
• Shevyca Foundation