The sharp-tongued landlady, the manager of the cotton mill who looks good but his house is full of feathers, the woman who lives on a budget in the alley... Yesterday (15th), a special performance was staged at the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center. Mr. Xia Yan The classic drama "Under the Roofs of Shanghai" is reinterpreted in an immersive performance.
What is interesting is that the actors who vividly interpret these old Shanghai characters have extraordinary identities - they are principals from primary and secondary schools in Shanghai. After more than half a year of training and rehearsal, more than 60 members of the first Shanghai Primary and Secondary School Principals Repertory Troupe presented this wonderful "graduation drama" in Mandarin and Shanghainese versions.
This marks the successful completion of the first Shanghai Primary and Secondary School Principals’ Drama Troupe, and also represents the successful opening of the second Shanghai Primary and Secondary School Principals’ Drama Troupe.
In order for drama education to illuminate more people, we must first illuminate ourselves.
Why do principals who are busy at work on weekdays participate in drama rehearsals and performances?
"To give students a glass of water, you must first have a bucket of water." In the education world, teachers often use this standard to ask themselves. In the field of aesthetic education, principals have not lowered their requirements. As the first drama troupe in Shanghai composed entirely of outstanding educators from kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, and off-campus education units, the troupe members are 69 school principals from 15 districts in the city, with an average age of about 48 years old.
As a drama enthusiast, Zhang Min, the former principal and party branch secretary of Huaihai Middle Road Primary School in Huangpu District, participated in the Shanghai-language version of the performance this time. She felt that the significance of this drama lies in, "What we bring back may be more like A seed is sown into the heart of every child, stimulating their pursuit of beauty and love for art. I believe that through the rehearsal of children's dramas and the performance of immersive dramas and small dramas, children can become the school's "The artistic successor."
Talking about participating in the first Shanghai Primary and Secondary School Principals' Drama Troupe, Zhang Wei, vice principal and physics teacher of Shanghai Kangjian Foreign Language Experimental Middle School, said: "To let drama education illuminate more people, we must first illuminate ourselves." ”
Apply the gains from drama performances to teaching management
The reporter learned that the drama troupe is the drama section of the artistic quality improvement training class for primary and secondary school principals in Shanghai. Since the beginning of the class, the drama troupe has maintained weekly classes and held winter camp training during the winter vacation. Many principals and principals have started from scratch and gradually mastered professional skills.
campus principals can experience real performances first-hand and experience the charm of beauty in an all-round way through activities such as drama creation and rehearsal, watching classic plays and backstage tours. They also combine the drama content with the school's aesthetic education work and apply what they have learned to campus management and In the school's aesthetic education planning, it supports the construction of campus aesthetic education and promotes the improvement of students' aesthetic literacy.
"This drama performance is like a carefully designed 'project-based learning'. The biggest highlight is that through a drama, the 'quasi-subject' knowledge we have learned can be comprehensively applied." After nearly a year of training, Shanghai Liu Qinteng, vice principal of Sijing No. 3 Primary School in Songjiang District, said that as mentioned in the "Vision" of the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center, drama can ignite people's hearts and dreams, and it is also a very good interdisciplinary comprehensive learning method.
One of the protagonists, Lin Zhicheng, is played by Chen Xiaowen, director of the Jing'an District Family Education Guidance Center. He said: "Although the process of learning and rehearsing is a bit painful, it is also very interesting. As an educator and a family education instructor, only by letting yourself go and feeling others through performances can you understand others and the world."
activity It is guided by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, hosted by the Shanghai Municipal Art Education Committee, and co-organized by the Shanghai Science and Technology Art Education Center, Shanghai Art Education Association, and Shanghai Drama Art Center.
Author: Zhang Peng
Text: Zhang Peng Pictures: Shanghai Science and Technology Art Education Center Pictures Editor: Li Chenyan Editor: Jiang Peng
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