This work is a collective creation and a co-production of the Escolhas em Movimento project, in partnership with the Instituto Profissional do Terço, the Augusto Gil Group and with the support of the Porto City Council. It brings together around thirty children and young people from the EB 1 da Fontinha and EB 2-3 Augusto Gil Schools and represents the result of the work carried out during the 2011-2012 school year by the dance groups promoted by the project. It is an initiative that, simultaneously, intends to mark the last year of intervention of the project and to promote the approximation of the surrounding community.

“We live in a time that treats violence in a contradictory way. On the one hand, it seeks to repress it judicially, on the other hand, it contributes, through inequality, to its expansion. In this or other times, children and young people are permeable. And this is the generation to which the media coverage of conflict and war has been offered.

In Re_Volt@, children and young people reveal the violence they encounter in their daily lives. Not as a show, or fiction, but raw, as they know it. Mute mutter the uselessness and absurdity of violence, its spiraling cycle and the desire to interrupt it. Intimately, they do not tolerate it. They amplify the words that are now suspended.”

Tânia Cortez