The activities are related to one of the stages of the study: “Guided Tour: the performance of oneself as a process of teaching and learning in dance”, developed by Master’s student Patrícia Machado, with the guidance of Professor Dr. Andréa Serio Bertoldi, in the Professional Master's Program in Arts - PPGARTES, State University of Paraná (UNESPAR- Brazil), in cooperation with the research: “The Activist Body: in search of a methodology for dance-based with unaccompanied chindren in Athens”, developed by Bianca Beneduzi from the Choreomundus Programme - International Master's Program in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage at the University of Roehampton (United Kingdom)

The main goal of the activities is to provide the kids the contact with dance based on human development concepts such as curiosity, inventiveness, empathy and affection, fostering to broaden the possibilities of the perception of themselves and the world around them. We assume that learning is a process of invention, of problematizing reality. This process is stimulated through artistic creation procedures that promote the child's playful and inventive encounter between themselves and other creative people, cultures and languages with whom they can co-exist and co-create, bringing them closer and enabling individual empowerment to create new collective knowledge in art.

The actions will be carried out from June 1st to August 10th 2021, with children  of both sexes, aged between 5 and 9 and 10 and 15 years old, divided in groups of up to 20 people at the shelters for unaaccompanied minor refugees managed by the NGO The Home Project, located in Athens.

Practical procedures are based on the children's perception of individual and collective characteristics (physical, emotional, cultural, among others), which are reinvented in the exploration of different body movements and their relation with the creation of drawings, sounds produced by the percussion of everyday objects and  to the perception of the environment through a camera made of recyclable materials.

The articulation between the artistic languages facilitates the motivation and affective involvement of the group with the work and the creation of new perspectives about themselves and their environment.

Movement and Trace exercise with the kids from LP shelter, managed by the NGO The Home Project in Athens, August/2019.