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Book SynopsisThere 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.
Table of ContentsContents: Wolfgang Schneider: Theatre for Early Years? Questions about Qualifications – Gerd Taube: First steps. Aesthetic peculiarities of the «Theatre for Early Years» – Carlos Herans: Why «Theatre for Early Years»? Memories and highlights of artistic experiences – Ana Lúcia Goulart de Faria/Sandra Regina Simonis Richter: Education meets theatre. Pedagogical remarks about the role of arts in early childhood – Geesche Wartemann: Wechselspiele - Playing with interplay. Staging the theatrical structure, and the fragility of the ground rules, in «Theatre for Early Years» – Ute Pinkert: Starting all over again? Changing ways of perception through theatre - not only for young children – János Novák: The joy of re-discovering the world. ‘Communitas’ and streaming in the performances made for babies – Wolfgang Schneider: 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 – Dan Höjer: Big drama for small spectators.
Unga Klara’s Swedish experiment – Charlotte Fallon/Michel van Loo: Babies and theatre. Notes about the imagination on stage – Agnès Desfosses: Little ones and adults, alive and aware. Theatre brings together – Stephan Rabl: Surprise. Creating «Theatre for Early Years» between everything and nothing – Ivica Šimić: «Dance and movement is a natural choice of language». The art of making theatre art for small children – Cate Fowler: Installation theatre. Creating a performance space for babies and toddlers – Megan Alrutz: Visionaries wanted! Theatre for
very young audiences in the United States – Gabi dan Droste: Distinguished theatre for young children. About the European network
Small Size – Roberto Frabetti: Does theatre for children exist? An unlikely model – Myrto Dimitriadou: Theatre and children are beautiful and ‘ding dong’ … Artistic processes in theatre work for the smallest of the small (A letter to the editor) – Melanie Florschütz/Barbara Kölling: 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» – Jo Belloli: Unearthing the potential. Exploring «Theatre for Early Years» in the UK – Sarah Argent/Kevin Lewis: «I was struck by the difference in age between us, but by the similarity in hairstyles». Journeying out of the blue.
