The body is an agent that is part of who we are. It is therefore also a living tool, widely applicable in the field of the arts, with immense expressive and communicative potential.

We propose an encounter between educational and artistic practices, through the mediation of the artwork, grounded in the language of movement. The course encourages the acquisition of pedagogical tools and new perspectives on the potential of the school curriculum and the school-museum relationship, contributing to a more fluid connection between art and life.

We will take Rosa Barba’s exhibition as a starting point, embracing the idea of “dance dancing dance,” and explore questions of composition, the physicality of form, and plasticity – elements that play an important role for the artist – through the body and the experience of new relationships between the body, the artwork, and the exhibition space.

Throughout the course, participants will be introduced to tools for interpreting artworks, developing various proposals for exploring movement, performance, and choreographic composition based on a methodology of diversification and inclusion, generating diverse and adaptable pedagogical resources.

Over the three training sessions, a sequence of exercises and reflections will be experienced, culminating in a collective creation project.

The course will address the following topics:

• Engaging with Art: Mediation and creation through relationships with artworks and the exhibition space.
• Introduction to the body as a living tool: How, where, and why to bring the body into the classroom.
• Essential movement grammar: Elements of the body, space, dynamics, and relationship.
• Body aspects: Components, zones, joints, surfaces, planes, etc.
• Dance, movement, and performance: Contextualisation and practice – includes attending a live performance from a project born out of the CAM-school partnership, developed within the scope of the Project Factory
• Real-time composition: How to create on the spot?
• Which tools remain: How do we incorporate what we’ve learned into our practices?

O The beginning of the course includes attendance at a dance performance presented by final-year undergraduate dance students, as part of the Dancing Art partnership project between ESD and CAM. The course concludes with the presentation of a collective creation and a conscious review of the concepts and methodologies explored throughout the process.

This is an accredited course. It is part of the National Arts Plan Academy portfolio and is in the process of accreditation by the João Soares Training Center. More information coming soon.

Course duration: 15 hours, with a break from 13:00 to 14:30.