Theatre for Early Years : Research in Performing Arts for Children from Birth to Three.
Title:
Theatre for Early Years : Research in Performing Arts for Children from Birth to Three.
Author:
Schneider, Wolfgang.
ISBN:
9783653012637
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (204 pages)
Series:
Kinder-, Schul- und Jugendtheater - Beiträge zu Theorie und Praxis ; v.13
Kinder-, Schul- und Jugendtheater - Beiträge zu Theorie und Praxis
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Preface by the editor -- Wolfgang Schneider: Theatre for Early Years? - Questions about Qualifications 9 -- Reflections -- Gerd Taube (Germany): First steps - Aesthetic peculiarities of the "Theatre for Early Years" 15 -- Carlos Herans (Spain): Why "Theatre for Early Years"? - Memories and highlights of artistic experiences 25 -- Ana Lúcia Goulart de Faria and Sandra Regina Simonis Richter (Brazil): Education meets theatre - Pedagogical remarks about the role of arts in early childhood 29 -- Geesche Wartemann (Germany): Wechselspiele - Playing with interplay - Staging the theatrical structure, and the fragility of the ground rules, in "Theatre for Early Years" 49 -- Ute Pinkert (Germany): Starting all over again? - Changing ways of perception through theatre - not only for young children 60 -- János Novák (Hungary): The joy of re-discovering the world - 'Communitas' and streaming in the performances made for babies 68 -- Wolfgang Schneider (Germany): The category of simplicity and the complexity of the theatre - Art education requirements, neurobiological justification and cultural policy considerations for the dramatic arts beginning with earliest childhood 79 -- Reports -- Dan Höjer (Sweden): Big drama for small spectators - Unga Klara's Swedish experiment 89 -- Charlotte Fallon and Michel van Loo (Belgium): Babies and theatre - Notes about the imagination on stage 94 -- Agnès Desfosses (France): Little ones and adults, alive and aware - Theatre brings together 99 -- Stephan Rabl (Austria): Surprise - Creating "Theatre for Early Years" between everything and nothing 105 -- Ivica Šimić (Croatia): "Dance and movement is a natural choice of language" - The art of making theatre art for small children 109 -- Cate Fowler (Australia): Installation theatre - Creating a performance space for babies and toddlers 113.
Megan Alrutz (USA): Visionaries wanted! - Theatre for very young audiences in the United States 119 -- Gabi dan Droste (Germany): Distinguished theatre for young children - About the European network Small Size 127 -- Experiences -- Roberto Frabetti (Italy): Does theatre for children exist? - An unlikely model 135 -- Myrto Dimitriadou (Austria): Theatre and children are beautiful and 'ding dong'... - Artistic processes in theatre work for the smallest of the small (A letter to the editor) 146 -- Melanie Florschütz and Barbara Kölling (Germany): The discovery of the small child as a spectator - The performer Melanie Florschütz and the director Barbara Kölling in a discussion on "Theatre for Early Years" 156 -- Jo Belloli (United Kingdom): Unearthing the potential - Exploring "Theatre for Early Years" in the UK 160 -- Sarah Argent and Kevin Lewis (United Kingdom): "I was struck by the difference in age between us, but by the similarity in hairstyles" - Journeying out of the blue 168 -- Appendix -- Credits 179 -- Plates 181 -- Authors 197 -- Supporters 199.
Abstract:
There is an old phenomenon in theatre arts: Education! And there is a new tendency: theatre arts for the very young! The relationship to education is clear, but what about the profit for the arts? The world of children as a horizon of experiences? The role of music as a dramaturgical element? Is it needed to divide the performance in actors and spectators? Is there a special age for a successful reception? How much should theatre artists be confronted with the physical and psychological development of children? It seems that Theatre for Early Years is a work in progress. There are more and more examples on the stages of the world: In Europe, in the States, in Australia. A variety of different perspectives are included in this research in performing arts from birth to three. The authors are reflecting their work, their observations, their directorship - to discover a new audience, to accompany the new generation in aesthetics, to make the signs of the time transparent. And maybe the development of Theatre for Early Years is a new challenge to renew the language of theatre, to establish an art of simplicity for the complexity of theatre.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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