Tools: – Block 2: Dance as social change.

– Block 2: Dance as social change.

Ramon Blanco Barrera

Introduction

From graphic-anatomical body art we can discover a whole world of tools through which people’s lives can be improved in order to achieve greater intrapersonal happiness and, therefore, interpersonal and social improvement.

Main objective

Help manage and control the experiences of the body, movement and soul with a dance of the ephemeral to understand ourselves as individuals (Therapeutic tool, which crosses emotionality, aimed primarily at vulnerable people. The illusion for art is the engine of the encounter between student-teachers and with society in general).

Session 0 – No sessions

Approach

Group empathy phase - to meet, understand each other, get to know each other differently.

ACTIVITY	DESCRIPTION
Duration	2 hours.
Methodological guide	Presentation: Name. Does it say enough? Can you describe us? Did we choose it? Another round: Name and something else that defines me (a word, a phrase, a quality) Let’s move on to the action zone. What do we want to achieve? What are we doing here? Let’s go back and compile: We differentiate our resolutions, making an effort of relativism, between “open” and “closed”… We collect the purposes on a blackboard. This will be our “employment contract”, everyone’s commitment.
Materials	Computer, stereo, whiteboard.

Session 1 – Projecting the road

Approach

Feedback from the non-session to establish our path, what we would do in the project, our “employment contract”.

ACTIVITY	DESCRIPTION
Duration	2 hours.
Methodological guide	Feedback and fine-tuning of the previous session. We resume our “employment contract”. The commitment acquired by the participants is reiterated (a card with the “purpose” of each one is distributed). Approach to achieve this through the body, dance, body expression, movement. Story of a girl who needs “a specialist”. Music video to remember how to live (dancer with - 13 - Alzheimer’s who remembers movements thanks to music). Marta González Saldaña, the prima ballerina of the New York ballet, in 1967 repeated the choreography of Swan Lake when she heard it a year before she died of Alzheimer’s. Two groups: one will be the proposers and the others will choose a song/music/theme with which they feel identified and with which they identify their purpose, their challenge, so that later the proposers prepare a way to help others face the challenge posed by each using that song/music/theme. Final demo: A participant is placed in the centre. The others are passing by and trying, with their movement, to help him in his challenge.
Materials	Computer, stereo, cards.

Session 2 – Addressing Challenges (1)

Approach

Get into the matter in more depth. During this session and the next we would try to carry on the challenges we had set ourselves.

ACTIVITY

DESCRIPTION

Duration

2 hours.

Methodological
guide

The group was divided into two (forming pairs composed of one person for each group: proposers with open-nature challenges and participants with closed-nature challenges).
Start with movement and warm-up exercises following the rhythm of the music. Stretching.
In pairs, one of the participants proposes a music with which he defines himself and with which he identifies his challenge to be achieved; and another partner, one of the proponents, helps/accompanies him in that purpose, using that music, anatomical-corporal expression and the movement of dance as a process of healing and social change.

Guide:
Proposers* (challenges of an “open” nature):

Guida:

Proponenti* (sfide di natura “aperta”):

Name	Identity	Challenge	Colleague to whom you address your proposal

Participants* (challenges of a “closed” nature):

Name	Identity	Challenge	Selected song

*We all participate in the proposals made by colleagues.

The rest of the group accompanies as “spectators-participants”.
At the end of each intervention, a question time is opened and constructive feedback is given for greater growth and experience.
Finally, a model example of the activity is taken up with one of the participants to motivate the next session.

Materials

Computer, stereo, signage.

Session 3 – Addressing challenges (2)

ACTIVITY	DESCRIPTION
Duration	2 houes.
Methodological guide	Continuation of the dynamics of the challenges following the previous session. Start with movement and warm-up exercises following the rhythm of the music. Stretching. Staging and, again, in pairs, one of the participants proposes a music with which he defines himself and with which he identifies his challenge to be achieved; and another partner, one of the proponents, helps/accompanies him in that purpose, using that music, anatomicalcorporal expression and the movement of dance as a process of healing and social change. The rest of the group accompanies as “spectators-participants”. At the end of each intervention, a question time is opened and constructive feedback is given for greater growth and - 15 - experience. Rest. Continue until you finish with all the couples and challenges proposed.
Materials	Computer, stereo, songs.

Session 4 – Passport to Freedom

Approach

The fourth and final session consists of a process of closing the experience, closing the circle, but with a surprise condition of future continuity. It is about establishing a point and apart from continuing to write autonomously, independently. We had managed to acquire a small notion or tools to, with will, be able to continue to discover ourselves. This is a leap into the void, but with parachutes to fly.

ACTIVITY	DESCRIPTION
Duration	2 hours.
Methodological guide	Feedback from all sessions to date and feedback from all our experience. Start with movement and warm-up exercises following the rhythm of the music. Stretching. Ancestral dance to connect with ourselves and our feelings with a “tribal” song. Final motivation of the speech to deliver, to all those who have lived this experience, the “Passport of Services Rendered. Towards Freedom” (as a gift) with a motivational background song. Challenge: __________________________________________________________ Proposed dance activity: ____________________________________ Song chosen: ________________________________________________ Results obtained: ______________________________________________ Place and date: __________________________________________________ We closed our whole experience with applause, joys and hugs, offering our thanks to the world with the song, for example: Jarabe de Palo “That you give me”.
Materials	Computer, stereos, songs, gifts.