In an Unknown Yes
“I visualize the unknown yes within a liminal space, a space where everything is possible. I understand this yes as a space of affirmation sought directly. A yes that appears without knowing it, where you find it, and for this reason, it invites you to enjoy it. The unknown yes is a space of play, of possibility, of breaking the norms within the classroom, of shouting, of questioning, of becoming, and also of listening and respecting. The yes is knowing ourselves, individually and collectively, embracing uncertainty with all that it entails.
The music classroom serves as the driving force of the project. As a dancer, music has accompanied me, being the cause of movement. I wonder what would happen if it were the body that generated the musical space within the classroom, thus allowing the shift of roles we associate with our daily lives. Let this be the first excuse to transform hierarchies in the classroom, energizing education from horizontality, centralizing the student as a creative driving agent, and encouraging students and their families to make education motivational. How beautiful it would be if children knew they are also teachers of adults in their daily lives.
I wish for the action not to be exclusively a performative act but a living act full of everydayness.”
Nora Baylach: Dancer, creator, contemporary dance teacher, and photographer in performing arts trained outside institutional academic margins. She began her professional career as a performer as part of the National Dance Production of Catalonia. Since then, she has established a close bond with Roser López Espinosa, participating in various shows of the company. At the same time, she has worked in different companies and with independent artists such as La Taimada, Ana Borrosa, Laia Santanach, Animal Religion, among other projects and creators.
Interested in pedagogy and teaching, she participated in the Onades Project, an educational and school project created by Escola Ferrer i Guàrdia and Roca Umbert fda., being one of the six winning projects of the Baldiri Connexions Award granted by the Carulla Foundation during the 2020/2021 school year. Subsequently, she collaborated with Escola Enric Granados within the educational framework of Caixa d’Eines, under the auspices of El Graner, developing “En un sí desconegut.” At the same time, she continues touring with “Cometa,” by Roser López Espinosa in co-production with Vorpommern tanzt an (Germany), a show that takes place both in schools and theaters for children aged 6 to 10, adding educational workshops for the participants. She also combines teaching at Àrea, a dance and creation space.
Reference teacher: Raquel Navarro / Mediation by Graner by Magdalena Garzon.
The educational program of Graner is part of the Caixa d’Eines program, driven by the Plan de Barrios of Barcelona, which consists of introducing artistic practices into the school curriculum to reduce inequalities between the city’s neighborhoods.
