Dance for life

All partners own a dance schools. They have noticed that there was an urgent need for a training for self-taught teachers. They need to improve their teaching skills while protecting themselves from injury. They need also to develop classroom management skills and enhances their artistic creativity. We also wanted to tackle digital transformation. Our project incorporates digital tools such as videos and digital books to improve dance teaching. Some of the management and events have been digitalized, and a musical film enabled participants to improve their way to create choreography and team management skills. We wanted to bridge intercultural, intergenerational and social divides: The ‘Dance For Life’ project tells the story of immigrants using dance to survive, promoting intercultural understanding and solidarity. It develops cross-cutting skills such as intercultural communication, human rights and civic engagement, while raising awareness of European opportunities such as Erasmus+. This part of the project allowed youngsters to practice what theyr learned while creating the movie from A to Z. Exchange of good practice on international level. We also wanted to create an hybride dance school by providing digital lessons.

Our objectives were 1)Improving young people's work by developing skills for dance teachers, protecting against injury, improving performance. 2) Digital transformation by using digital tools to teach dance, creating a musical film. 3)Social cohesion by ridging intercultural, intergenerational and social divides through dance.

- We held many meetings to build the partnership -We created courses with a particular focus on improving techniques and preventing injuries - We produced video clips of the courses - We produced digital course brochures - We did workshops to produce the film of the musical (including script-writing and film-making workshops) - We did dance master classes in France and Belgium

- the digital lessons - The masterclasses -the digital brochure - the film -learning process in all activities: we have never stopped learning from each other, even when we were in crisis. We learn to work together on a common project. We learnt from each other how partners work in their own way. Each partner shared their strengths and weaknesses with the others.