Creative movement workshop for children aged 2-4 with an accompanying adult
Designer-facilitator: Mata Marra, dancer, choreographer, creative movement and yoga teacher
A few words about the workshop:
A music and movement workshop where children, together with their accompanying adults, are invited to explore and expand their innate need for movement through appropriate stimuli. The workshop is designed around the specific phisical, emotional, and perceptual abilitiew of children aged 2 to 4, with the aim of encouraging them to acquire motor skills, harmonizing the imaginative element with phisiccal expression.
Mata Marra's biography:
Mata Marra studied, contemporary dance, and classical Indian dance theater. She trained in drama in education, creative writing, and yoga.
As a dancer, she has participated in numerous performances in numerous performances and concerts (Ancient Stadium of Delphi, Kakogiannis Foundation, Vrachon Theater, Old Eleusis Oil Mill, Wiltz Festival in Luxembourg, in the video Lament by musician S. Kozani, etc.).
As a teacher, she has collaborated with schools, museums, and art venues such as the National Theater workshops, the Goulandris Museum, the X. Kalogeropoulos theater workshops, the Morfes Ekfrasis theater organization, etc.
She partiipated in N. Martin's Moving around music program, which was held with residents of the Athens Nursing Home, and in a National Theater program for underage refugees.
As a choreographer, she has collaborated with the deaf theater group Trelà Chromà, Thiasos 81, Avgoustinos Remoundos, and others. She has collaborated with the Philosophy-Art-Therapy research group of philosophy professor A. Lazos as a trainee, choreographer, and experiential seminar teacher.
She has taught training seminars for educators on the use of creative movement as a learning tool in education, organized by institutions such as the Museum of Greek Children's Art, the Panhellenic Network for Theater in Education, Politechnon, and others.
She has given interactive book presentations in collaboration with publishing houses and the Niarchos Foundation's Future Library organization.
She wrote articles for the magazine Contemporary Kindergarten for three years.
She is also involved in farming using natural methods.
