Project place: Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Project dates: 27 June – 7 July 2024
Deadline for applying: 25.2.2024
ABOUT THE TRAINING COURSE
Make your move is an 9-days international training course for youth workers and educators to explore the opportunities of using contemporary dance as an innovative, learner-centered approach in activities involving youth. The project aims to focus on individuals’ potential by recognizing the strong link between the mind and body. It seeks to leverage the body as a resilient resource, especially when the mind faces challenges. Through exploring transferable skills, the project aims to show that proficiency in presenting, training, coaching, and conveying impactful messages can be cultivated through the body.
OBJECTIVE
Working with individuals and groups, the project aims to encourage active participation, stimulate creativity, and initiate competencies expressed through non-verbal communication and body language. Looking ahead, a key goal is to incorporate contemporary dance as an innovative, learner-centered approach in youth activities, enhancing the development of these interconnected skills.
WHAT CAN YOU LEARN?
Personal Skills
- Creativity, self-expression, connection, flexibility, initiative
- Observation, listening, practicing, stamina, discipline, focus, memory
- Leadership, involving people, handling diversity
- Setting goals and priorities, training design, method design
Competences
- Life-long learning, participation and inclusion, experiential learning
- Healthy lifestyle, educational mobility
- International networking and exchange of ideas, methods and tools, EU citizenship
- Creativity, entrepreneurship
Dance and performance
- Basic tricks & techniques of dance: e.g. rolling, sliding, turning, jumping, lifting
- Safe physical exercises to keep your body healthy
- Body awareness and coordination
- Orientation in space and time in relation to people in movement
- How to put a message into a performance
- Basics of creating a dance performance with a team
Values
- Democracy, peace, freedom,
- Tolerance, equity, love, car
PARTICIPANTS’ PROFILE
- Age 18 or above
- Can use English for work and communication
- Passionate about incorporating dance and body movement in youth work and educational activities
- Commitment to actively participate in all training course activities
- Good physical condition for handling exercises
- Youth Workers, Trainers. Volunteers, Young People with Project Ideas. Young Entrepreneurs, Members of Organizations, Educators, Freelancers
ACCOMMODATION and FINANCES:
All costs related to accommodation and food will be covered by the hosting organization.
Travel costs will be reimbursed up to 180 EUR.
Sending fee: 750 MKD