Opening and Further

ZYG has been a wonderful experience. A path developed over several months, initiated by a sharing of ideas, built by many doubts and a very strong desire to ask what is the essence of communication and how art (at the intersection of sound, movement and space) can create the lap where time and space inhabit the body of each person, in particular the babies. With the debut of ZYG, the presence of babies and parents, children and educators, brought the gazes of amazement, the impression of listening very deeply and a feeling of being in a profound relationship with the here and now.

During the next few weeks (until 12 March), ZYG will be at the "nest" that welcomed it when it was still an idea, the Fábrica das Artes, CCB. It has been a privilege. The affection, the accuracy of the work, the time, the exchange of ideas. There will be further presentations and also a number of training sessions that were called Variations on ZYG. They will be a living-reflection about the importance of artistic experiences in early childhood, constructed with the building blocks of ZYG´s universe. We are born musical, with the ability to make and enjoy sound and movement and it is essential that, since an early age, children build an "emotional / aesthetic" vocabulary made of rich, deep and diverse experiences. We will look at ZYG in three different ways. The first session will start by promoting an "emotional / sensorial" contact, followed by a "deconstruction" of the creative process and a set of listening activities and sound / musical expression. In the second session we will propose a look mediated by ideas such as communicative musicality, proto-comunication, nonverbal language, authenticity, inner availability, play. The third session will bring a vision from "inside the body" very influenced by ideas like "embodiement" (sound, space, time) and musicality of movement. It will also be the look by who is "being really there". We will not explain what can not (and should not) be explained: amazement is still the most fruitful way of knowing things. We will seek, with the adults, to continue learning what babies have taught us: to listen to the whole body, to look to the sounds, the touch the forms.