As soon as she woke up, Emma got out of the big bed, quickly dressed and rushed to the kitchen, like every morning, to have breakfast before going to school. Without thinking twice she took her mother’s hands, looked her straight in the eyes and said in one breath: “Mom, can I go to school alone today?”
Geografia bambina is the wonder of the world through the eyes of an eight-year-old girl, Emma. A first study of a “musical suite” for fragile bodies, whispered words, mysterious encounters and silences. Allowing ourselves to be guided by the story “Emma, lascia in pace quando cade la neve” by Antonio Catalano, we will try to reflect on the relationship of girls and boys with their territory, on the small conquests of autonomy, on their psychophysical and cognitive development, but above all on the desire for discovery.
