I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT – The Big Linz09 School Project

September 08 – June 09

What’s school going to be like in the future?

This project initiated by Linz 09 in cooperation with Upper Austrian teachers and principals as well as local and international artists will surely serve as a model. This is the first time that such a broad-based project integrating the performing arts into school curricula is being attempted in Austria.
I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT is getting all types of schools all over Upper Austria involved. The accent isn’t only on contemporary dance and theatre; it’s also on the schools, the students and the teachers themselves.

In spring 2009, nationally and internationally renowned choreographers, directors, actors and performers will be working together with teachers and more than 2,000 students at schools throughout the province to launch a process of change. The focus will be on joyous, enthusiastic engagement in artistic pursuits, and all participants’ wholehearted commitment to an artistic process whose outcome is very much up in the air. Live performances can be a part of this project, but they are by no means mandatory. Ideas and models will be set in motion and, ideally, carried on to continue to encourage and strengthen the people of this school system—young and old alike.

Artist Teams

Participating Schools

Cooperation Partners
Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität
Ars Electronica Center
KulturKontakt Austria
Theater des Kindes
SCHÄXPIR
Verein Zündstoff
Wirtschaftskammer OÖ
U-Hof

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