Collective Musicality: Stories of Healing from the Companhia de Música Teatral and other Arts Projects

This chapter responded to the editors’invitation on presenting “a narrative approach involving plenty of direct experience, original ideas, case stories and the personal, emotional realities of working with highly vulnerable children” based on Companhia de Música Teatral’s work. Vivid episodes - selected from projects that are more connected with the topic of music healing – are reported intending to inspire the target public of the book according to editors’ demand: “The book is addressed to the global community of therapists/educators/researchers/artists/students working with children, in the second, parents/carers, and in the third, a wider less-specific cohort of readers who are interested in the narratives, the anthropology of disability in childhood, the real story of creative ways of engagement”.