Experimenting with how the bodies of adults and children can mutually become tools for support, stimulation and discovery, topics such as touch, weight and balance, support and gravity, and relationship with space and others will be addressed.

Being touched, in addition to sending back a message of real presence, creates a perceptual containment in the child that gives the possibility of accessing bodily explorations and discoveries with greater freedom, thus intensifying the parent-child relationship. The parent is called upon to get involved together with the child to find common ground, a relational field where an equality of listening is created.

In the form of physical/exploratory play, DanceFloor Kids focuses on connecting one’s body with each other’s body and each other’s space to activate shared perceptual experiences and reflections.

Young and old alike will be free to jump, roll, twist and be guided to discover new and different modes of communication.

Martina is a choreographer, performer and dance teacher with a degree in dance theater from Trinity Laban Conservatory in London. She participates with her work in International festivals including Abundance Festival in Sweden, Festival Fabbrica Europa, Kilowatt Festival, Dinamiche Scomposte in Italy, B:orders Festival in Bleiburg Austria and Siobhan Davies Studios in London. He has collaborated with various artists such as Hrafnhildur Einarsdottir (IS) Tony Thatcher (UK), Roberto Masotti (IT), Anna Till (DE). He is part of the Icelandic company Raven, the No-Nothing/Something collective and the international group OAC. She collaborates with composer Simone Tecla on research projects on the relationship between dance and music.
She co-founded the Shär project that organizes workshops and performances for children in schools in northern Europe, the FIKA collective and, together with Agnese Lanza, the DanceFloor Kids project leading workshops aimed at parents and children. She collaborates with the FOSCA association as an operator of movement workshops in local schools. She is on the board of directors of Dance Activists, an open group of independent dancers based in Florence. In recent years she has specialized in dance support disciplines and became a certified instructor of the GYROKINESIS® Method and Hypopressive RSF.