Media Dance – project of educational innovation aimed at high schools – branches out into Europe, with an experimentation shared among Turin and Saint Germain-en-Laye, in the outskirt of Paris, supported and recognized by the Erasmus + call of the European Union.
The project provides for the experimentation of this methodology in two school settings within the two countries in question, with the involvement of Liceo Alfieri in Turin and Lycée International in St Germain-en-Laye, through an artist’s residency declined in the school context. This will allow artists working on complex social issues – such as the political value of the body, social responsibility, self-awareness, and interpersonal dynamics – to enter into a relationship with students and teachers, promoting the acquisition of soft skills, the development of a critical, proactive and responsible attitude towards the fruition and production of knowledge, the adoption of an approach open to problem-solving, creativitỳ, self-orientation, and intellectual curiositỳ.
The University of Milan-Bicocca, which is also a partner in the project, will play an essential role in this process by scientifically and pedagogically validating the courses undertaken, the activities carried out and the methodology tested. In fact, the university will publish a scientific study of a pedagogical nature – free and accessible to the entire scientific community – through which it hopes to get one step closer to introducing new methodologies of didactic innovation based on the use and enhancement of expressive, performing, artistic and participatory languages in school contexts.
