Kopergietery is host of the second workshop programme within NAI. The performing arts centre in Gent Belgium has made a conscious choice to have young children as artistic partners within the dance field. These younger children are precisely the ones who can form an added value, not just as audience members, but as participants as well. They are the link between the new generation’s urgency and the experience of today’s established theatre makers and choreographers, for instance in the need to redefine the meaning of abstraction. The depth of content that can be hidden in an image is too often pushed aside by superficial visualisation. Dance plays an important role in the discovery of multiple layers in an image. Dance for, and often also with, young children can offer something we do not find in dance for grown-ups. Young children all over Europe have no difficulty in following abstract logic and are able to understand and relate a great deal within this type of logic. Dance for, and sometimes with children can prompt a society, and its performing arts field, to ask a set of abstract questions that would otherwise have been ignored. Part of the workshop will consist of dance workshops with children (agegroup aim 4 –10 years).