Training

An integral part of the “Quest for new audiences” (curated by Rebecca Raponi), vocational training is one of Dance Promotion’s key activities. The principal aim is to stimulate interest (especially among the students of secondary schools and of university, but also among dance lovers and professionals) by carrying out initiatives that offer participants the possibility to come into closer contact with the world of dance.

It is this context the training project, entitled “Teaching dance in schools”, launched in 2001 at the IUSM, the university institute of motor sciences, has marked a key passage in the  Romaeuropa Promozione Danza efforts. The project involves an initiative, developed by the pedagogue, dancer and choreographer Chiara Ossicini, that introduces the art and creates awareness of the body and of gestures, but also to transmit the ‘tangible’ aspect of movement in a context that privileges the athletic and sporting approach, providing students the basics of choreography.

The project is articulated in thee phases:

1. Basic course (40 hours): focus on the motor, sensorial and creative aspect of dance. An introductory part allowing students to discover the art of dance, includes a stage designed to teach students how to dance and, in the process, understand individual as well as group potential. This is followed by a phase where methodology and technique is tackled
2. Choreographic composition: after having acquired the basic notions, the students are called to organise themselves as a group or as individuals with a view to creating an original choreographic piece. Among the best compositions, a commission will select those that it believes merits further development so as to be successively presented at Danse au Coeur, the biggest European dance festival at a school and university level.
3. Apprenticeship (30 hours): foresees the application and the transmission of pedagogical and educational elements learned during the basic course in a training initiative in two elementary schools, the “Istituto Trento e Trieste” and the school at via Gela, which had enthusiastically taken part in the initiative right from the outset.

For the third consecutive year, the group of students developed by Romaeuropa Promozione Danza and IUSM will be Italy’s sole representative at Danse au Coeur, the European dance festival for school students, to be held at Chatres.