Under this initiative, every secondary school student in Malta and Gozo gets access to attend one artistic performance per year. This measure – one of the deliverables of Arts Council Malta’s Strategy2020 – includes events of a cultural and artistic nature targeting students in all years from Junior to Senior Sector. Activities are held between September and June. Moveo has 4 eligible projects which fall under the culture pass scheme. Each project includes a performance and workshop, aimed at Middle and secondary school children, based around various relevant themes such as bullying, Trust, and social media amongst others. All these projects will be fully funded by the Arts Council Malta, and will incur no cost to the school. Every project includes a short introduction, a 20 minute performance, followed by a 20 minute workshop with the students. The performances and workshops can be held at the school premises and require very little technical assistance.
SELF-E
How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What’s It’s Doing to Us. The “selfie generation” didn’t arrive from nowhere. Our love of ourselves—our love of looking at our face in a phone camera, then expecting the world will equally adore our image—has deep roots. It seems like “going viral” is one of today’s generation’s main goals. Many of us live in a fabricated environment, where your body, and surroundings can be enhanced, augmented, reduced, perfected, coloured etc all with the touch of a button. This gives the opportunity presenting or viewing a self that is very far off from reality. Self E focuses on portraying ones online manipulation as the creation of an alien, showing that what you might think is beautiful is actually a bad distortion of your true self. The most beautiful and rewarding thing remains being happy and proud yourself just the way you are. The aim is to send a message that the ‘beauty’ everyone sees on other people’s social media pages is not a depiction of reality but almost a fictional portrayal of who people really are. Self E also shows how dependant we have become on our social media platforms and how much weight we put on the validation we get from others on our profiles. The performance ends with a social media discussion, followed by a movement based workshop including all the students based on various consequences social media exposure can bring.
Available for Middle and Senior School.
For bookings or more information email : bookingsmoveo@gmail.com or Tel : +356 77111010 Eat Me
Eat Me is an artistic take at communicating about healthy eating and nutrition in a way that leaves a positive impact so they can grow up learning how to eat well.
Kids are bombarded with junk food all the time, and unless they’re living on a remote isolated commune in the middle of nowhere, it’s just about impossible to avoid it. They will see other people eating these foods, they will be given these foods, they will like them, and want more of them. In our best efforts to educate them, when we label foods as bad, unhealthy, or junk, then we could make them feel bad about themselves for enjoying it, and we also set the stage for a classic parent-child power struggle. This is why our approach is to teach them, so they don’t feel bad about sometimes having junk food and enjoying it, but understanding the harmful effects certain foods have if consumed regularly or in abundance. Available for Kinder 1 to Year 3.
For bookings or more information email : bookingsmoveo@gmail.com or Tel: +356 77111010 |
PLASTOCEAN
The project will be based on the journey of a plastic bag from when it is purchased from a supermarket. The plastic bag travels through different moments that portray the dangers and the repercussions it brings with it. Each scene will be at a different state, for example: starts from someone shopping, to throwing the plastic bag in the bin, to ending up in the sea, to be eaten by a turtle etc.. This will be portrayed through dance and visuals which will make the performance educational and artistic. The turtle will take more of a prominent role in the choreography because it will also serve as a mentor to children almost like the symbol of Xummiemu. The turtle will then explain the idea of the 4Rs and a workshop will be based around this idea which children learn how to rethink plastic.
Available for Junior School. For bookings or more information email : bookingsmoveo@gmail.com or Tel: +356 77111010 Duende
Duende or tener duende ("to have duende") is a Spanish term for a heightened state of emotion, expression and authenticity. This is what FLAMENCO as an art form is all about – Duende. The piece depicts the constant struggle to find the ‘duende’. As dancers we all face an internal struggle to reach the optimal level of what we believe is ‘our’ style of dance. That struggle is what gives each and every one of us the strength to continue doing what we love most, even if we find obstacles along the way. Being pure and loyal to the purest form of Flamenco is very difficult in the contemporary dance world of today, however exploring and diverting ones’ style does not mean that one looses purity and duende. And at the end what is most important is that the dancer expresses the duende within to the audience.
Available for Middle and Senior School.
For bookings or more information email : bookingsmoveo@gmail.com or Tel: +356 77111010 |