To help to expand access to inclusive education, we want to investigate current and future opportunities to create an inclusive, educational dance project for teachers, amateurs, and individuals with and without disabilities. We think that everyone should be able to fully engage in civic and cultural life in our society. Due to social, economic, and architectural obstacles, people with disabilities in Slovenia and Spain are still mostly excluded and isolated. We have achieved all our goals and implemented all the planned activities. In order to prepare teachers, future professionals, and adult learners for learning the competencies, the project intended to enhance and supplement the knowledge and abilities that were lacking in each of the four organizations. The transfer of information and skills through workshops, study visits, and research will alter Slovenia's approach to inclusive dance and strengthen ties between local organizations in Madrid that focus on inclusion and the performing arts in Spain. Reaching out to a larger number of adult learners was another of our main objectives, and we exceeded both the number of participants and the interest of local communities in Slovenia and Spain.
The involvement and training of participants from all partner organizations and local associate organizations is the primary goal of this initiative. With the goal to increase the ability of practitioners in organizations and to increase awareness of accessibility and inclusive adult education, the partners want to share knowledge, best practices, and competences. The main actions of the projects were working on accessibility, inclusion, cultural participation, and eliminating physical, social, and intellectual barriers. Our motivation started from two sides. Slovenian partners notice the lack of inclusive dance opportunities as there were none and lack of teachers with enough tools to lead the classes. In Spain we have noticed the lack of connection between association that work on inclusion and performing art. All four partners addressed we have the needs to promote artistic and educational project that help change the focus, innovating in contexts and mobilizing the community, in a process of artistic interventions and education where inclusive performing art transforms mentalities and the life of people with disabilities.