Migration and migrants are broad terms that are part of a phenomenon of multiple causes and consequences in both country of origin and destination. The movement of millions of displaced people from their countries of origin due to political, social and economic circumstances is a contemporary and longstanding situation that implicates a multilayered action at a local, regional, national and international level. Such massive mobility of people and cultures has implications for cultural representation and identity at all levels above mentioned. As such, this demands responses and actions from the community concerned with the sociopolitical implications of representation such as artists, writers, activists, anthropologists, and dance researchers.

One third of the refugees living in Greece are in Athens. The dynamics of integration of migrants and refugees are affected not only by the unprecedented inflow of people migrating, but also by the national economic situation since 2008 that resulted in high unemployment and public budget cuts. The capital of Greece is a migrant metropolis, hosting intense political negotiations on European borders and the articulation of a system of cooperation between national and international partners (donors, foundations, NGOs and civil society) in order to deliver public services and basic needs, in high demand under such circumstances (OECD, 2018).

Therefore, facilitating the learning of life skills through dance may be a promising approach to build a process of empowerment and creative investigation of body movement systems in the community of unaccompanied minor refugees living in shelters. Stimulation of creative thinking through movement may shed light on one’s role in creating embodied knowledge. In this process, the participants may discover ways of moving that empower themselves to extend their physicality and acknowledge their own bodies in their new locations.