Starting from the consideration that sedentary lifestyle, which is now forcibly increasingly widespread in the daily life of modern society, involves fewer opportunities for meeting between young people with a consequent greater sense of loneliness and discomfort and triggers a vicious circle of hypokinesia - loneliness - obesity - insecurity, the our laboratory intends to develop a habit of movement as a lifestyle. With a motor activity with purely playful characteristics such as circus techniques, we intend to encourage a personal and creative use of time as an alternative to boredom and sedentary lifestyle, the fathers of social discomfort.  

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The aim is to enhance the expressive abilities of those who find themselves in those increasingly frequent crises of identity and communication particularly widespread among young people due to the ever growing loneliness and sedentary lifestyle. In addition, the young man who approaches the world of circus techniques, acquires greater self-confidence in relating to others and has the opportunity to experience new and different images of himself, helping him in that difficult search for the self-project that has considerable importance. in the formation of one's personality.

Our choice falls on the techniques of physical theater and circus activities, with its acrobatic elements, because they are perceived as more pleasant, rewarding, spectacular and therefore strike the individual's imagination more; they also have the charm of out-of-the-ordinary skills and are more easily used to improve "self-presentation" and "communication" skills. Theatrical communication is a powerful vehicle for the transmission of ideas, but above all of emotions and allows to manifest contents that are difficult to express in the scenic fiction. In addition, the young man who approaches the world of theatrical and circus techniques, acquires a greater self-confidence in relating to others and has the opportunity to experience new and different images of himself, helping him in that difficult search for the self-project that, in period between puberty and adolescence, has considerable importance in the construction of one's personality.

From the circus skill, with its inherent "game" content, to the desire to make the transition, it is quite easy if correctly guided by our experts who will be able to let the participants experience the "motor pleasure" from an emotional point of view and the "taste" of success ". In addition, the teaching techniques adopted by the educators are also aimed at an aggregation and socialization drive among the participants in the workshop, and the effect of "social aggregation" is amplified. With this methodology we want to bring the young to the "desire to do" as a fundamental motivation for the construction of an "active and personal lifestyle".

The workshop, to be held out of school hours, includes 15 meetings, with a weekly frequency of 2 hours each for a total of 30 hours overall; it will take place in a gym inside the school that we will provide for the period to equip some circus equipment. You will also need at least one power outlet inside the room. The activity will end with an artistic performance on the theme developed to be represented to other classes and / or parents, or in another context to be agreed.