Creating for Children. Does The Artist Propose Or Do They Listen To Their Audience?: The company Mafalda has been producing dance performances for children for more than 10 years. In this talk, the choreographer Teresa Rotemberg will present her experiences of working with the audience for whom she is creating the piece.

On several occasions, she has worked by inviting children to propose the themes that move them: listening to them, giving them space to express themselves, creating drawings, movements, sharing their feelings. The Company translates what the children have shared with them into the body movement, which is a universal language without words, and into physical and bonding dynamics. They can then recognise their emotions in these images. She has worked with children and adolescents from different socio-cultural contexts and in different countries (including Switzerland, Argentina and Colombia), with the genuine search to find differences and meeting points, and to create scenic universes that move and involve them.

This exhibition aims to be a trigger and a space for dialogue with other local and international artists. To make room for listening to different ways of creating for children and young people, to learn from each other and to enrich ourselves in the exchange. It does not seek to propose recipes or given paths, but the possibility of nourishing ourselves from the diversity and creativity of the participating artists.

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