“Us”, a piece about being and wanting to be, growing, belonging, occupying, screaming, dancing...

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 Porto City Council. It brings together around 30 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 throughout the year by the dance groups promoted by the project. This is an initiative that simultaneously aims to commemorate the second anniversary of the project and promote closer ties with the surrounding community.

Identity was the motto chosen by the children and young people participating in this project based on questions such as: who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up, where am I from, what do I want, what do I like, how do I relate to others. We are what they made of us - the construction of the I starts from the relationship of sharing and belonging, from being with the other, from the we. It is here that everything begins, then development continues with identification with models that increasingly become a choice of oneself and identity is assumed as identification with others fades.

“Us” is the result of a co-constructed process with children and young people - an artistic performance that is born and grows based on the relationship with one's own body and the other. Movement, silence and the word come together and form the pillars of a dynamic and (still) unfinished construction that allowed artistic and creative expression to all those who participated in it.