Drama school for children
Creativity, is an acquired behaviour – learnable, teachable, tangible and crucial to human development.
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The Drama Education
Drama is a dynamic practice that introduces students to a world of wonder and play. It encourages them to continue questioning, exploring and teasing out new ideas and ways of living and thinking. Drama is not about being the best performer or the next Hollywood star, it is about creating and making, exploring and responding in the search of our true selves and meaningful connections with others and the world around us.
Our Drama school teaches children how to be active and striving for perfection in their daily lives, but not just passive observers. Creativity, is an acquired behaviour – learnable, teachable, tangible and crucial to human development. Childern will express your creativity in a variety of ways. In drama there is no right or wrong, creative play is encouraged and mistakes are often happy accidents. Creative people do things. They make. They assemble. They put together. They make connections where connections were not previously apparent.
Skills and qualities that are acquired during the training:
- trust, cooperation and communication in the group;
- concentration;
- coordination of thebody and movement in space;
- ability of listening, observation and interaction;
- synchronization through movement;
- the expression of the body through movement – body shape, facial expressions, gestures;
- ability for improvisation and performing an etude;
- voice training;
- ability to express the inner world;
- ability to present ideas and expressions in front of an audience;
- imagination and abstract thinking;
- ability to connect seemingly irrelevant things and to synthesize knowledge and information;
- formation of differing abilities and decision-making abilities;
- ability to create a storyline and work on dramaturgy.
Performance
… If suddenly a white rabbit, which is wearing a vest, a watch and muttering something out being late, passed you by in a great hurry, wouldn’t you become curious to know where he was going?
In the school year 2016/2017 children are working on the performance on one of the most enchanting stories of all time, which has already turned a century and a half – “Alice in Wonderland”. 150 years ago, the first time the world is simultaneously captivated and puzzled by the story of the little girl Alice, which falls into a rabbit hole and founds herself in the fairy world, peopled with strange creatures like the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire cat, the MarchHare, the white and the Red Queen. In his novel, Lewis Carroll wittily mixed logical and illogical, charmingly plays with words and spaces and masterfully unravels the border between real and unreal.
The performance will be done for professional theatre scene, with profesionlly made scenography, design and costumes.
Program
The program of the Drama school for children is based on three modules. The modules build upon each other school year after school year. The goal is to make kids easily become a part of the learning process. With each level of education, the creative process is heading more and more towards the last two modules.
MODULE 1: BASIC CONCEPTS OF THEATER AND MOVEMENT. CREATING GROUP DYNAMICS.
- Studying the history of the theatre; basic concepts.
- Exercises for group dynamics and synchronization of the group activity. Building teamwork skills and capacity for integration into a group.
- Concepts related to the movement on the stage: tempo, duration, interaction, repetition.
- Relationships and connections in space.
- Concepts related to the performance in space: space structure, form, gesture, the architecture of the space.
- Development of an overall sensitivity.
- Work on the power and depth of the voice; developing abilities for proper articulation and expression .
- Exercises for game and improvisational theater. Working with the techniques of the playback theatre.
- Getting in character and building relationships through the different characters.
MODULE 2: GENERAL GAMING MODELS; PRESENTING OF THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF THE MOST COMMON VOCAL TECHNIQUES.
- Group improvisations on themes, movement and music included.
- The voice of the actor and its implementation in the movement act.
- Presentation of the techniques for adding text in the acting – creating of short sketches and etudes.
- Creating of a story line for the final show; initial ideas for the costumes and scenery.
MODULE 3: TECHNIQUES FOR BUILDING OF A COMPOSITION.
- Setting the language and the atmosphere of the future performance; setting goals and creating an environment for free experimentation.
- Transfer of skills – using already learned techniques for unlocking the creative process in order to build the separate details of the show – the complete action, text, decoration, make-up, costumes, musical setting.
- Arranging of the puzzle – ability for critical thinking and decision making.
- Rehearsals.
- Final performance.
2016/17 School year
I-st term
Beginning: 12 September 2016
End: 03 February 2017
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II-nd term
Beginning: 09 February 2017
End: 31 May 2017
Groups, sessions, prices
| Group | Day | Session | First Term Fee
12.09.16 – 03.02.17 |
Second Term Fee
09.02.17 – 31.05.17 |
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| 8+ years | Saturday | 10.00-13.00 | 560 BGN | 430 BGN |
| 10+ years | Saturday | 14.00-17.00 | 560 BGN | 430 BGN |
* Prices for a single visit – 35 BGN/3 hours.
* The expanses for the preparation and realization of the final performance are not included in the price.
* Payment by installments is a possibility.
Enrollment
Call in advance to GSM: 0882/10 40 48 (to check for training spots availability).
Svetoslav Dobrev– graduated with a master’s degree in acting from NATFA “Kr. Sarafov”, Sofia, in 1994, in the class of Prof. Nadezdha Seikova and Prof. Ilia Dobrev.
Immediately after the completion of his academical education he was accepted as a member of “Nikolay Binev” Youth Theater. He still performs there as well as on the open-air stage at “Salza I Smiah” theater and stages across the country. He has numerous roles in film and television productions. Since 2000 he has been teaching children, adolescents and young people. He teaches Stage speech and art of speech and Acting in NATFA “Kr. Sarafov”, Sofia. Co-author of the book “Roads towards the stage and TV and cinema screen” along with Prof. N. Seikova and V.Kardashevska Ph.D.
Svetoslav Dobrev– graduated with a master’s degree in acting from NATFA “Kr. Sarafov”, Sofia, in 1994, in the class of Prof. Nadezdha Seikova and Prof. Ilia Dobrev.
Immediately after the completion of his academical education he was accepted as a member of “Nikolay Binev” Youth Theater. He still performs there as well as on the open-air stage at “Salza I Smiah” theater and stages across the country. He has numerous roles in film and television productions. Since 2000 he has been teaching children, adolescents and young people. He teaches Stage speech and art of speech and Acting in NATFA “Kr. Sarafov”, Sofia. Co-author of the book “Roads towards the stage and TV and cinema screen” along with Prof. N. Seikova and V.Kardashevska Ph.D.
Gabriela Stankova – an actress and choreographer – Bachelor’s degree in “Acting for theatre” and ”Opera singing” from NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY, Bachelor’s degree in “Bulgarian folk choreography ” from UCTM Sofia.
Took part in:
- “Cherry sisters” by a. Chekhov and M. Greene, directed by Assoc. V. Viharova, as Veruca. Receives a diploma and wins first prize given by the audience at the Arts Festival in Blagoevgrad.
- “Tiramisu” by Joanna Ovshansko, directed by Vladimir Petkov.
- “Magic power” of R. Sacasa, directed by Prof. Eva Volicev
- “Lovers” by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Desislava Shpatova.
Gabriela has extensive experience in working with contemporary acting training – movement and voice.
Teachers are available for feedback to the parents after every lesson.
UPCOMING EVENTS
| 07.10.2017 | Beginning of the school year |
| 05.11.2017 | “Talent loves every child contest” |
| 04.2018 | Academic practice at Chavdar village |
Unity Academy
Drama School For Children
Sofia, Ovcha kupel,
Training at:
12 Varbitsa str.,
Private theater “Theatro”
Administrative office:
19A Barzaritsa str.
tel: 0882 104 048
e-mail: academy@unity.bg
