Imagine a society where deep encounters with different people are an everyday opportunity. Imagine minorities and privileged populations communicating with each other and co-creating culture, relationships, and history. Now imagine a team of artists taking the initiative to empower these populations. Through sound and movement, the artists travel to traditions and listen to the global narratives of our world. MoAM brings people together who do not come into contact in their everyday lives: unaccompanied minors and senior citizens. The only common element among them is their bodies in the present. Or maybe not only that? In order to connect with people around us, we need to co-create a code of ethics, derived from synergy and contribution. Within this "glocal" whole, each finds their voice and shares their story. Tools such as rhythm, music, and dance can teach us how to belong in the contemporary world, and how to adapt to present multicultural reality. How can such an intention be organised and affect participants' feelings? How can collaboration, solidarity and creativity transform a simple interaction into a lived experience? By using the art of Percussive Dance, MoAM offers a chance for people to come together, get to know each other for the first time, and become a team within a playful and exploratory atmosphere.

“MoAM – Moving Around Music: The Intergenerational Percussive Dance Project” took place at the Tanz- und Theaterwerkstatt (TTW) on Friday 27th October 2017. It consisted of a two-hour workshop of body music and 90 minutes of an improvised showcase among different percussive artists. This small-scale project at the TTW was a simpler version of the proposed project for Phase II: it brought together two dancing generations as well as artists from a variety of cultural backgrounds. In addition, it managed to include a facilitator from Austria who was invited to offer the body music workshop in German. “MoAM-Moving Around Music: The Intergenerational Percussive Dance Project” successfully brought adolescent hip hop dancers together with senior dance students of flamenco, ballet and contemporary dance. During the improvised showcase, the audience experienced dialogues between dancers of body music, tap dance, flamenco, hip hop and West African musical instruments such as djembé and ngoni.