Credo
Drama is usually based on playing games. Games are children’s most important means of communication. By playing games we can get to know and understand them, reach inside them.
Games are the most pleasant means of learning. That’s why acting offers the possibility of persuading children to willingly assimilate new things, without trying to use forceful methods which children tend to refuse because such methods don’t offer the satisfaction of a game.
Through acting, they discover their real selves, they learn how to know and accept both their good and their bad characteristics. They can identify their weaknesses and accept them, thus taking the first step towards mastering them, breaking the barriers of communication with others.
Through the atmosphere created during drama classes, one can discipline a reckless person or uninhibit an introverted temperament.
During drama courses children manage to express themselves freely, revealing their skills and artistic talents, so that the student and his or her family may be helped in choosing his/ her future professional career.
Moreover, most of the activities are in the form of competitions, developing the child’s desire of being the best, improving his/her power of concentration, his memory, imagination, creativity, spontaneity, all of which are absolutely necessary in any field of activity.
In certain ways, drama creates powerful characters and personalities who can express their point of view not through violence but through logical, coherent, clear, concise, well-argumented discourse, because drama operates with individualities and not mediocre entities. At the same time, drama is a team-building activity, helps children acquire new friends, teaches them to recognize the good from the bad, to be generous, tolerant, cooperative, and to socialize easier.
Just as children discover Verdi during music classes, I think it is important they discover Eminescu, Caragiale, Shakespeare and other great poets and playwrights by acting out their plays. It is drama which builds their taste for reading and gives them a sense of beauty.
Drama classes contain:
• The actor’s skills (his/her means of expression and repertoire);
• A means of passing from the real to the imaginary;
• Drama theoretical elements (types, structure, functioning);
• Speech skills;
• Scenic movement;
• Body language training;
• Drama history;
• The art of drama performance.
Daniela Minoiu, Coordinator
