Dance for everyone

Dance is a universal art form that helps people to express themselves no matter what the cultural background is, age or education. Through dance form body stays healthy, it develops kinesthetic awareness, improves social skills and cognition. It also reduces stress and helps to express feelings. Dance movement is also used to improve motor skills and brain function. Dance environment also increases creativity and imagination, cooperation with peers and fitting into a new community. Youth workers who offer dance education in small communities are mostly self taught in need for new ways of teaching methods. With improving their knowledge, they will be able to provide better quality of their dance classes. Project goal is introducing new ways of teaching in dance art form and introducing new methods and dance tools. With new dance methods and tools we will empower youth workers to express through dance art form and use it to start new activities or complement ones they already have in their organisations. Teachers will explore and expand capacity of their way of teaching and share good practices. In this methods and tools we will combine creative, social and physical abilities with focus on how to transfer knowledge to young people.

Objectives of the project are;
* To explore the needs of youth workers in dance activities
* To share knowledge, experience and good practice of teaching dance
* To introduce participants to innovative and transferable methods and tools to improve the quality of teaching, training and youth work in dance activities
* To raise awareness on importance of dance activities and how it affects young people’s social, physical and mental level
* To promote the networking within the Erasmus+ Youth in Action by creating cooperation opportunities for youth work organisations within dance activities