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FRANCE

Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils

My rights & My duties / Democracy & Children’s rights

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The National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) believes that every child should have the following rights to instruction in dance and urges that these rights be recognized and guaranteed by educational funding authorities, school administrators, and the public.
As their right, all children must be given the opportunity to explore and develop their movement. 
As their right, all children must receive the finest possible education in dance. 
As their right, all children must have equal opportunity to study dance taught as an art form, to create dance and to perform dance.
As their right, all children must have the opportunity to study dance of diverse periods, styles, forms and cultures, including samples of the dances of the world. 
As their right, all children must have the opportunity to develop their abilities to analyze dance with discrimination, to understand the historical and cultural backgrounds of the dance they encounter. 
As their right, all children must have the right to grow in dance knowledge, skills, and appreciations so as to bring joy and satisfaction to their lives, challenge their minds, stimulate their imaginations, and exalt their spirits.

Two types of activities will be presented in France: intellectual and danced activities.
Orally, each team from each country will present the story and history of the dance they will have performed the months before, along with a short biography of a famous dancer or choreographer performing this dance. We will make sure that the 6 countries present 6 different dances. At the end of the project, we will be able to publish a real book or a digital one about all these dances. 

In international teams (one pupil from each country), the pupils will write a collaborative and persuasive slam or speech that they will recite on stage. Each team will choose a human or child's right that is important for them to be defended. 

As far as dance is concerned, after each team will have presented the activities they will have done in each country, France, the hosting country, will choose the most appropriate dance that will bring to light democracy and human rights. It may be a mix of various dances. In international teams or larger groups, the pupils will dance these values.

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