Dance & theory

Education should also involve individual and group body movement in order to develop attitudes that favour social integration. With movement pedagogy one establishes a knowledge of one’s own body, the way it reveals and expresses itself, to enhance the development of your own qualities and abilities. Developing body awareness and presence requires 4 fundamental pillars: body construction, space construction, time construction and dynamic construction. The body is the vehicle that links us to reality, having a body means having a world; corporality, therefore, expresses and experiences thoughts and emotions. Having corporality means referring to the human body, which is full of physical life and whose biological structure can generate movement, to feel, perceive and express one’s psychic and emotional life consciously.

Social pedagogy specifically addresses the development of physical and virtual sociability in individuals, focusing on the way people are influenced. In general, we may say that socialization and sociability are the realm of education and Social Pedagogy. This type of pedagogy seeks the participation of individuals, groups or communities who are in a vulnerable situation, at risk or in social conflict. Therefore, it acts in the different contexts -both physical and virtual- these people, groups or communities experience everyday life.

It is based on the idea that expression is a natural condition in every human being. It aims at contributing to personal development through a deep stimulation of creativity by using writing, music, painting/sculpting, photography/pictures and theatre games. It encourages students to work on their emotions with creative aims without it necessarily leading to exhibiting or staging their work. The starting point is the desire and need to express emotion, regardless of the expressive ability, that would take an individual to a specific artistic-theatrical level. Therefore, the main goal is the affective development of people. Together with training in practical skills, artistic, musical, and theatrical pedagogy has gained importance in terms of ethics and aesthetics training. The arts are considered to be an understanding of the world, culture, language and meaning of life.