Didactic and Artistic Innovation in the Media Dance Project: a Research Approach

This contribution observes and analyses a research-training project directed at second-grade Secondary School students and teachers in the suburbs of Turin. Media Dance started from the scientific cooperation between the University of Turin, the University of Milano-Bicocca and the Piemonte dal Vivo Foundation and aimed at exploring and promoting innovative reflections between the school system and the performative languages, through choreographic residencies. Into an historical-artistic view, we present the results of the research that we’ve developed starting from the theoretical framework of the Manifesto Una scuola (Antonacci and Guerra, 2018) in its application to the assessment on the scholastic community, in terms of didactic innovation. In this regard, we designed research tools to highlight the multiple voices of the actors involved: questionnaires (pre- and post- actions), focus groups and research-training activities addressed to students and teachers.The data enhance how the encounter with the performative languages offered the participants the possibility to approach the transformative potential of the embodied, aesthetic dimension, as an experience of mutual connection and recognition.