Baila: para ser feliz, para aprender, para crecer.

Abstract

This thesis was developed within the framework of the Master's Program in Human Development and Socio-Affective Education, and its primary objective was to co-create a dance performance with students from the Santiago de las Atalayas School in Bogotá. Through guided workshops and meaningful experiences, the project sought to strengthen socio-emotional skills such as empathy, self-concept, and frustration tolerance. Employing a qualitative approach and design thinking methodology, dance was established as an expressive, reflective, and transformative tool. The central finding highlights both a lack of awareness about participants' own emotional abilities and the significant potential of art to help name, inhabit, and project these emotions into everyday life.