Dancing the Crisis Beyond the Usual Choreographies in Social Work

“Arianna” is a video-performance performed six months after the conclusion of a cooperative inquiry with social workers, volunteers and family members of people with intellectual disabilities in northern Italy. The choice of an aesthetic and performative way of analyzing and interpreting the research material arose from the need to move away from the colonizing power of discourse in order to open up new interpretative possibilities around the relationship between the experience of crisis and transformative learning processes. It contributed to the creation of an idea of transformation that tries to look beyond “the form that transforms”.