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Making the Capital of Culture Year a School Year too! And getting the whole of Upper Austria moving in the process!

I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT entailed 75 contemporary artists involved in theater, dance and performance working together with more than 2,000 students and 700 teachers at 90 schools of all types throughout Upper Austria during the 2008-09 school year. This intensive, process-oriented collaboration of several weeks duration was part of regular classroom instruction. This project’s aim was to establish more room for creativity in the education provided by schools.

In a subsequent phase of reflection and assessment, the students’ experiences as well as their parents’ reactions were distilled by teachers, principals and artists and formulated in 10 rules governing contemporary theater projects at schools. A manifesto entitled dogma09 presents philosophical and practical guidelines meant to form the basis of a school reform process to be carried out via art.

Changing the school system changes society—and vice versa.
Today’s elementary school pupils will begin to retire in 2060. No one can say now what the world that they will have been living in and co-determining up to that point will be like. In addition to the acquisition of cognitive knowledge, these people, as young adults, will particularly be confronted with the challenge of daring to use new patterns of thought and to develop new forms of networking. They’ll need self-confidence and creativity to accomplish this.

The big Linz09 school project facilitated encounters between schools and art, and among students, teachers, actors, dancers, choreographers and directors. It combined creativity and education, opened up opportunities, crossed borders.

Tried-and-tested, economically-priced school reform
A school with the courage to get involved in an open encounter with contemporary artists will be able to bring out and nurture undiscovered talents as well as to shift perspectives. And above all, it will be able to get people enthused, and that goes for students and faculty members alike. This could be one of the most effective and thus most reasonably priced ways to achieve sustainable reforms leading to a school system in tune with the times.

The Idea – The Implementation – The Outlook
dogma09 - for contemporary theater & art projects in schools


WHAT // Workshops and performances
WHEN // September 2008 - June 2009
WHERE // Schools in Upper Austria
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