We would like to invite children to discover together the sound layer which surrounds our world, as well as the relationships between sound and movement. During the workshop we will learn to actively listen, distinguish sounds, name them, describe them with words and express them through movement. We want to provide children with knowledge and to stimulate their active listening skills, i.e. the naming, classifying and describing of sounds. The basic tools we will use during the workshop are our ears, our own bodies and ideas. Moreover, we will use various devices to record and amplify sounds. Different kinds of microphones will serve as microscopes for our ears to explore the world of sounds. These will include contact microphones which allow us to hear the marching of a spider on a pane of glass; directional microphones which provide for the recording of selected sounds from a large distance, for example a bird singing in a tree, and condenser microphones which collect sounds from the environment. We will also use binaural microphones and hydrophones (to listen to sounds underwater, for instance in an aquarium). We would like to propose a number of sound and movement games, in addition to producing sounds for our dancing friends. We will not use any musical instruments, but various objects and our own bodies (by moving, breathing and using our voices). We will imagine the stories that sounds conceal, we will dance them out and tell them. Sound is born out of movement…