
About
A project for the youth
UMA – Urban Move Academy – is an educational and artistic project dedicated to young people. A school, a creative space, and a place of exploration, UMA is part of the current urban culture movement, particularly in its performative forms such as parkour, dance, and skateboarding.
UMA brings together in a single location the teaching of movement and displacement arts in interaction with creative and stage experience, as well as visual and digital arts. UMA is crafting a new kind of project, responding to the aspirations and practices of today’s youth.
Open to the world, UMA stimulates creativity, nurtures curiosity, and draws on the plurality of languages and interculturality to offer a unique and demanding environment for learning and sharing. With one foot in education and the other in the professional world, UMA is a springboard for passionate young people who are given the opportunity to express their identity and realize their potential.
UMA offers a full range of educational and cultural activities centered around urban cultures, within a unique space for expression in Geneva.
UMA stems from 8 years’ experience sharing with young urban artists and performers and bringing forward alterity. A laboratory where creativity is imagined, experimented and lived out in a different way, off the beaten track. A school revolving around innovation, emancipation, trust, the senses, and what makes sense.
Youth is a time for experimenting, for learning, a time when anything is possible. Young people need to be listened to and supported to find answers to their doubts and their questions relating to their future and their upcoming projects. Transmitting art is a challenge, a huge opportunity if teaching can be handled as a creative activity rather than transmitting established knowledge. It is therefore for and thanks to artistic creation, resonating with the challenges and innovations of the professional world, that young students, teachers and guest artists are developing UMA and are fueling its activity through their diverse talent, experience and aesthetics.
The training courses, workshops, master classes, performances and shows offered at UMA are all material available for everyone to enjoy artistic creation.
Welcome to UMA!
Nicolas Musin