25th Biennial Conference of ICKL
	Escuela Nacional de Danza Clásica y Contemporánea, Mexico July 29 (Arrival Day) - August 5 (Departure Day) 2007

	Home Information Sessions Schedule Participants Pre-registration Contacts For the authors	SESSIONS Paper Laban Movement Analysis as Creative Education: Teaching Brazilian Children Through Dance Theater and Notation ZENAIDE VIEIRA DE MELO, Adriana - Brasil This paper presents a pioneer work with children of age between 6 and 14, at a Community Theater Project in São Luís Gonzaga, a small village in Paraíba, northeast coast of Brazil. The project applies LMA in the creative process of performances at the Theater of God´s Angels. Although going to public schools regularly, the children and adolescents of this community were not able to read or even recognize the letters of the alphabet. They could not identify the days of the week, months or numbers. Nonetheless, through LMA, these children and adolescents gradually became quite keen in memorizing texts and perform within a whole scene. From this initial step, they began to learn the alphabet through LMA, associating letters to symbols. In this manner, they learn an alphabet that is simultaneously physical in their moving bodies and represented symbolically. In this process, they have learned to write and read together with dancing and acting, in a full body-mind development. Adriana Zenaide Vieira de Melo is a teacher of Art in II Phase Teaching of Fundamental in two private schools from João Pessoa. She is graduate in Pedagogia from Federal University of Paraíba, especialised in Basic Education and in Theater Performance from UFPB. She founds, and is a director of Dance Theater of God´s Angels group of São Luís Gonzaga Community. Since February 2005, develop of Laban Movement Analysis development as creative children of adolescent group of God´s Angels. She adores work with children and adolescents, she loves animals mainly are dogs things that she loves, drawing, paint, dance, singe, photograph and write poems. She is authoress of plays Pé de Boi, Padroeiro dos Adolescentes: São Luís Gonzaga e Natal Jesus Minha Alegria. Since 2005, she is associate in a Laban Movement Analysis process of alphabet research. She is the authoress developing with a Group of God´s Angels retinue research with Ciane Fernandes from the Federal University of Bahia and Everaldo Vasconcelos from the Federal University of Paraíba.
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