An education in the performing arts is an important means to stimulate and encourage creativity and self-expression. It can challenge students’ perceptions about their world and themselves, as well as help them with problem-solving. Through dramatic exploration, students are given the opportunity to channel their emotions, thoughts and ideas.
Performing arts allow students to communicate with and understand others in new ways. Any form of theater, from drama to musical theater, allows students to be more self-confident and more persuasive in their oral communications.
Experimenting with performing arts and theater helps students to put themselves in others’ shoes and fosters a better understanding of realities different from their own. Performing arts is also a great means to improve cooperation and teamwork.
Performing arts key concepts:
Join with and respond to others in group drama activities
Cooperate in teams to solve problems. Place self into another’s position
Use role-play to place self in different contexts
Recognize the role of theater, film, television and other media in daily life
Create/write scripts, and perform improvisation/act/role-play
Direct classroom theater
Use role-play to place self into the context of other subjects
Create theater based on themes from other subjects