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It is possible to participate without applying at any time.

As a teacher, school management or teaching staff, you can decide in which way and to which extent you want to take up the topic of human rights.

The aim of the project is to 'move' the content of human rights in as many places as possible, especially with children and young people, and to foster social engagement for more humanity in this way.

The projects that have been carried out can be published by name on the HUMAN website as an inspiration for others. Please send your proposals to the .

The HUMAN project offers three approaches which can be pursued individually, but they can also be linked together:

• access via HUMAN music: HUMAN music as a basis.
• connecting HUMAN music and dance: the implementation of HUMAN themes in movement and dance, especially with community dance. The leading team of choreographers, Wilfried van Poppel and Amaya Lubeigt, have presented their ideas for the community dance premiere in Bremen and Brussels in a script. The project office will be pleased to provide the free download link. A preview of the reading is available here.
• HUMAN and human rights education: an exploratory, experiential reflection of HUMAN themes.

In 13 short pieces of music, the music expresses important HUMAN themes with their nuances forcefully and powerfully, also in their tensions. In a special way, the music shows what, for example, freedom and lack of freedom, equality and inequality or even home and homelessness can mean. Dimensions of the rights to work, to recreation or creativity as well as fraternity are also touched upon in the music.

Among many possibilities to take HUMAN music as a starting point or to put it at the centre, four can be mentioned:

• HUMAN music/single pieces of HUMAN music can be used in many subjects: for example, as a creative introduction, to discuss selected human rights, for example the causes/effects of seeking refuge, the significance/dimensions of work, freedom of the press, inclusion, etc.
• HUMAN music can also be an inspirational tool for activities in the visual arts.
• A thematic and music-analytical study in music is also possible.
• The school orchestra can rehearse the HUMAN music and invite others to a concert, a concert reading (e.g. with texts on human rights issues) or to a music and dance performance.

The is happy to receive further ideas and experiences. They can be published on the HUMAN website with the name of the author/school.

• The HUMAN Youtube channel and the HUMAN website offer music videos on selected pieces of HUMAN music, with more to follow successively.
• The HUMAN CD trailer can also be seen here, in which the composer Helge Burggrabe and the British conductor of the CD recording, Duncan Ward, describe their perspectives on the composition.
• Helge Burggrabe's reflections on the 13 HUMAN pieces are published in English on the website. The booklet texts in German, French, Dutch and Spanish are available from the project office as pdf files on request.
• Videos with short explanations by the composer of the 13 pieces of music will be available on the HUMAN YouTube channel and the HUMAN website in August 2021.
• Interested schools can obtain the HUMAN CD from the (special price: 12.00 € per copy plus delivery). The world-wide release of the HUMAN CD/Vinyl has been published be by the label EDEL Kultur/Neue Meister on 27 August 2021.
• The HUMAN score for conductors can be obtained from the .

From the very beginning, composer Helge Burggrabe had a special focus on translating the HUMAN music into dance. The form of community dance in particular invites people - regardless of previous dance experience, age, traditions and lifestyles, national, cultural or religious affiliation - to move the basic issues of the human being in the most literal sense.

"Those who can dance with each other can also live with each other," says world-renowned choreographer Royston Maldoom, who artistically accompanies the HUMAN Community Dance choreography. 

At this point we would like to give you some information and suggestions:

• Movement and dance to HUMAN music provide a creative, enjoyable approach to basic human rights issues - not only in the subjects of music and sport. The script "HUMAN Community Dance" offers pedagogical suggestions. It will be available as a free download on the HUMAN website from August 2021.
• A project week can focus on the preparation and creation of a school or public HUMAN dance performance - in which HUMAN music is played on CD or in which the school orchestra plays live.
• The HUMAN music can be the inspiration for the development of a community dance choreography: together with the pupils or by teachers. This is possible without licence fees.
• HUMAN choreographers can be invited and engaged for a "Five days to dance project week" at the school. This intensive pedagogical-artistic project week is rounded off with an internal or public HUMAN Community Dance performance. Between 50 and 120 pupils can take part in such a HUMAN Community Dance project week; the number of participating choreographers varies with the number of participants.

The will gladly accept further ideas and publish them on the HUMAN website with the school name/author.

Yes.

A HUMAN Community Dance choreography is being developed by the successful international choreographer team around Wilfried van Poppel and Amaya Lubeigt with Nanni Kloke and Susan Barnett; they are supported in their ideas by the world-famous choreographer Royston Maldoom (film "Rhythm is it").

The HUMAN Community Dance premiere directed by Wilfried van Poppel and Amaya Lubeigt was at Theater Bremen (end of August 2021). They realised also the HUMAN Community Dance premiere with young people at the Royal Flemish Theatre in Brussels (end of September 2021).