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Dance UP your life.

2019-2-LV02-KA105-0026692019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: LV|GE|LT|ES|PT · Grant: €23,186.1
Health and wellbeingInclusion - equity

Objectives

Health (mental and phyisical) is the most important determining factor of human life and the invaluable wealth. According to World Health Organization, the health - it is a physical, mental and social well-being, and not just the absence of disease and physical defects. The improvement of public health is the basic condition for the development of society; Research funded by WHO (World Health Organization) conducted in 2013 reported that in Europe more than 50% of people are overweight or obese and over 20% of people are obese. From this problem stem many different consequences, the most important is social exclusion. The problem with social inclusion is that it is a vicious cycle, the more that people feel different, the more that they exclude themselves. This is one of the main reason, why our project is targeted to healthy life-style, and we want to use dancing activities as a tool for it. The promotion of healthy lifestyle is playing the major role for reducing the morbidity and strengthening the public health of society. The project idea was concluded after we have set the specific goals & objectives in order to solve specific issues in society. We have noted that social exclusion leads to consequences such as crimes and many health issues (suicides, drug addiction etc.). Therefore our main point was to give equal opportunities for everyone through social inclusion using art as the main tool. As Europe was home for many different nations, cultures, races, genders & we do believed that in Europe there is no space for any kind of discrimination & exclusion, we concentrated to solve issues such as lack of inter cultural understanding and dialogue. We practice to overcome mistaken perceptions through the dance, dialogue and non-formal education. Our aim was to reach better understanding between different nations & overcome mistaken stereotypes with the art, specifically dancing, as a tool. Art offers a unique means by which we can explore ourselves and who we are in the wider world. It is a way to exchange with other people about what we see, feel, think & sense. Dance is an art form, which in experiential way helps to open a dialogue within & between individuals & communities. Since the beginning of the world dancing was a form of a communication. The relationship between dance & culture is reciprocal. Culture gives meaning to who dances what, why, how, when, where, with & for whom, in addition to the role of the dance audience. Such variables also bespeak sexual orientation & gender roles, as well as ethnic, national & other group identities. Dancers reflects &/or influence culture. Through dance we learned about very sensitive topics such as any kind of discrimination, migration, inclusion. Dancing in this project was used as a tool to reach our objectives: *To promote discussion for inclusion through dance *To stimulate the idea of social inclusion *To understand what non verbal communication is and how to use it for a better communication; *To promote proximity, interactivity and socialization through dance; *To promote discussion about discrimination and inter cultural dialogue with the help of outdoor education methods; *To get intercultural experience by meeting with the representatives of different countries, cultures, backgrounds, religions, practice tolerance & break stereotypes & prejudices; •To show that, without special lessons and lectures it is possible to get knowledge how to live well with the help of dance activities; • to get rid of unwanted stereotypes and complexes contribute to better adapt to the rapidly changing circumstances of life. • to become more open and to acquire freedom: freedom of movement, freedom of thought , freedom of communication and freedom of life. • to get intercultural experience by meeting with the representatives of different countries, cultures, backgrounds, religions, practice tolerance and break stereotypes & prejudices; • to build meaningful relations and future cooperation on the basis of this project under Erasmus+; • to increase employability and participation of youth, develop professional skills of youth workers and increase their efficiency; • to improve the quality of local and international youth work *To learn and share experience in the field of dance; *To build meaningful relations and future cooperation on the basis of this project under Erasmus+ This project is related to E+ specific emphasis which is to reach out to marginalized young people, promoting diversity, inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue, common values of freedom. We, with the dance as a tool did the same and fulfilled all those specific goals which were very related to our objectives. The methodology was based on learning by doing, which refers to the process of making meanings from direct experience.

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