HOW IT STARTED
I have always loved dancing. I studied classical and contemporary dances, and after a few years, I also began to make some incursions into acting and singing.

My career was oriented towards musicals and acting in general. During ten years I worked continuously in theatre and TV, enjoying my profession.

In 1986, in the beach, by chance I met a boy with whom I found difficult to communicate.

…I also may say that the boy had communication problems but, who knows? Perhaps, understanding each other was a question for both of us.

I began to play with my child, who was three years old then. It was only in that moment that the boy came closer in response to the rhythmic echoes that we were making with the buckets. So, I realized that the boy really wanted to play, but we could not understand each other. Only then I knew that the boy had a mental disability. It was the first time I met a child with that characteristic, and I felt moved by the fact that he could enjoy the company of other child because, finally, he had been able to communicate through musical rhythms. He had been able to communicate!!

And so he spent that summer playing with my son and enjoying a friendship without borders. It was then that a wish arose within me: sharing my professional skills with people whom I could offer communication ways through different artistic disciplines.

As my work in TV and in theatre took up all of my time in those days, I could not put my idea into action immediately. After six years of my encounter with that child and having finished my work in a musical in the last theatre season, I remembered that boy. While I was waiting for a new artistic proposal from a producer to work in theatre or TV, I proposed myself to contact arts and pedagogy professionals who would like to take part in my project.

We opened the first art centre for people with mental disability.

The aim of these art workshops is to work with the capacities of the persons, not with their incapacities.

Since then, basing on respect and love we owe each other, we began the gratifying task of showing every person with intellectual disability the INMENSE AND WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE ARTS.

Everything that people take and somehow transform make them belong to the artistic field, because it will be always with their personal mark, and, in any way, it would be useful for communicating themselves and communicating their inner-world which, many times, seems asleep but stays alive.

It is for that reason that, through the body, the voice or musical instruments sounds, and something drawn on paper or created in clay, we could GET COMMUNICATION. Then we can see children, youths and adults with different disabilities work in harmony as they are expressing themselves IN THEIR OWN WAY without feeling obliged to use the common language for all people.

Among themselves they learn THE NOT BEING ABLE of the others, and they know that their difficulties will be respected as well. The acceptance of limitations is a way to the personal growth. It is a place for ¨EDUCATING THE SIGHT TO HELP WITH THE GROWTH¨.

Victoria Shocrón ( President- Founder )




La Sra. Victoria Shocrón es miembro
de la Asociación Internacional
de Emprendedores Sociales ASHOKA.


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