Creando una red internacional de teatro escolar 2020-2022

Motivación y objetivos

The four participating schools have been working around the theater for years with different approaches. In all cases, theater is an important tool in the education we offer, various departments as well as students of different ages participate in our theater projects. Theater is transversal and develops in our students basic skills that will be fundamental for their future life. None of our schools approaches the staging of rehearsals and performances from a professional point of view, but we appreciate above all the added value that the practice of theater brings to our students.

In this project we want to learn from each other by observing each other's work, their way of organizing, their strengths and weaknesses. Each school, each city and each participating country contributes singularities that will enrich the experience: large and small schools, large and small cities, different "peripheries" of Europe; schools with studies related to the performing arts and vocational schools that use theater as a transversal tool. Each one of us contributes interesting specialties that the rest lacks: technical branches, scenography, graphic design, theater and body expression workshops, dance, music, etc. Taking advantage of our diversity, and as a central objective of the project, we want to offer a joint work to our educational communities, our cities and our regions: a work made up of scenes by different authors of the European theater (and especially from our four countries) elaborated, staged and performed by our students in two ways: in each vernacular by the groups of each country and in English in representations performed by students from the four schools in the planned mobilities in each city. In this way we propose a model of cooperation that opens minds, brings our cultures closer and broadens our knowledge of the world and especially of the European project of which we are part.

Objectives

The objectives of our project fully coincide with those defined by the Erasmus + project for a strategic partnership: promoting cooperation, peer-to-peer learning and the exchange of experiences at European level. The preparation activities around a theatrical performance are closely associated with the achievement of key competences:

- To develope collaborative work with students from other countries. The final result is not as important as the process of work, coordination and testing of the different groups that will be formed. Through this experience, we would like our students, not only the direct participants, but the entire school community, to know the value of European heritage, its most important theatrical authors (competence in learning to learn and social and civic)

- To perform a work in public that has been prepared together for months. The mixed groups that are formed will work autonomously (with the help and supervision of the teachers) to select scenes, prepare texts, assign roles and rehearse the fragments that will be part of the general work. (Initiative and entrepreneurial spirit) We would like to get the four cities to host performances of the plays worked on throughout the project. As the idea is to work around scenes from different plays (from different authors and countries), the final result can be very variable, depending on how the work is carried out and the final number of scenes. In any case, the European literature and specially of the four participating countries must be sufficiently represented.

- To work fluently in a foreign language. But further, to develop the oral and written communication skills of our students (linguistic competence).

- To use all the resources of new technologies for online work (digital competence). In this sense, our experience in the 19/20 academic year with confinement for months due to the COVID 19 pandemic is forcing us (and helping us) to develop various useful online tools.

- To know, value and respect other cultures in our environment (competence related to cultural expressions).

- To promote the love of theater among young people in our countries.

- To know work techniques and schedules, spaces and groups organization ways in each school in order to apply the improvements that can be adapted to each specific case (objective for the schools).

- To lay the foundations for future projects of theatrical collaboration with new European partners.

This project will generate tangible results: performances (live and recorded), diaries of the work carried out by the groups, the plays resulting from the different scenes of European theater.

Intangible results: the skills and competences that it will develop in our students and the vital boost that it will entail for direct and indirect participants.

Strategic results: the application of collaborative work methods around the theater will help to an innovation in each school, an it will be an advance towards a real bilingual school.