The project had three main objectives. First of all, helping students and teachers in developing soft skills on the theme of relation on a triple level: self-knowledge, know others, and know the group. It aimed to develop the listening and the expression skill, not only through verbal language, but also performing language. Moreover, since it was involved in the Civic Education programme of the schools, the focus was also on the theme of citizenship, to raise a more conscious and politically active citizen. In the second place, the project had the objective to develop knowledge though the creative experimentation of languages, to stimulate the interdisciplinary dimension, a critical and proactive eye, and a consideration on challenges of modern times. Eventually, it was aimed to trace new tools and style of educational innovation to incorporate in the traditional methodology, to offer new educational approaches with which wondering on current events.
The Media Dance project was born in 2016 with the aim of investigating the value of performing arts from an autogenesis and educational point of view, in high schools. The international experience implemented thanks to the Erasmus+ programme allowed to investigate deeply the relation between performing arts organisations and schools in an international setting. Through the comparison and the dialogue among the institutions involved at different levels we could point out methods, tools and approaches to make each organisation more conscious of its own role in the building of a high-quality educational path for the students. Specifically, the educational community, teachers and students, expressed the need of incorporate body in its educational processes, above all after the pandemic. In other words, this experience allowed school to find a space aimed to think about methods and tools of educational innovation which won’t have a plan or an implementation otherwise.