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Theatre in Education: A professional team of trained and experienced actor-teachers prepares materials, projects, and experiments to be presented in schools. TIE programmes often involve more than one visit, are usually devised and researched by the team/teachers, and are for small groups of one or two classes of a specific age.
Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted, created spontaneously by the performers.
Improvisation is the practice of acting and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment. Improvisation can be a great introduction to role playing. Students focus on position, expression and creativity in their impromptu skits.
The first Playback Theatre company was founded in 1975 [1] by Jonathan Fox and Jo Salas. Fox was a student of improvisational theatre, oral traditional storytelling, Jacob Moreno's psychodrama method and the work of educator Paulo Freire.
Education in the performing arts is a key part of many primary and secondary education curricula and is also available as a specialisation at the tertiary level. [1] [citation needed] The performing arts, which include, but are not limited to dance, music and theatre, are key elements of culture and engage participants at a number of levels.
Arts education, while existing in different forms during the 19th century, gained popularity as part of John Dewey's Progressive Education Theory. The first publication that describes a seamless interplay between the arts and other subjects (arts integration) taught in American schools was Leon Winslow's The Integrated School Art Program (1939).
Theater in Education (TIE) originated in Britain in the mid-1960s. Monica Prendergast and Juliana Saxton cite TIE as "one of the two historic roots of applied theatre practice." [2] TIE typically includes a theatre company performing in an educational setting (i.e. a school) for youth, including interactive and performative moments ...
Viola Spolin (November 7, 1906 — November 22, 1994) was an American theatre academic, educator and acting coach. She is considered an important innovator in 20th century American theater for creating directorial techniques to help actors to be focused in the present moment and to find choices improvisationally, as if in real life. [1]