Creating an international network of school theater Erasmus Project

Project Title

Creating an international network of school theater

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Creativity and culture; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

“Creating an international network of school theater” is a KA229 project in which four partners will participate: The Szent Lásló school in Mezökövesd (Hungary), the Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi school in Antalya (Turkey), the Liceo Francesco Orioli in Viterbo (Italy) and the IES Princesa Galiana de Toledo (Spain). It is a project focused on theater, an educational activity that has been present in all our Schools for years and we consider it is essential for the comprehensive training of our students. Theater is an interdisciplinary activity focused on performing in front of an audience: in other words, it is a project work, with a collaborative and active methodology, in which the student is always the protagonist. It also develops multiple abilities in students, cognitive, emotional, teamwork, motor skills, etc. Taking advantage of all these benfits, we want to add an international dimension to our project: collaboration between students and teachers from different countries, saving (taking advantage of) language and cultural differences. Over the last two years, the IES Princesa Galiana and the Liceo Orioli have developed their first theatrical project, in which they have shared working methods and experiences around the theater. Each group has performed in the other city. The project has been very enriching and it was already intended to go a step further in collaboration, proposing a new project expanded to new European partners and which will involve closer collaboration between the participants. Thus, in this new project, the work proposed throughout the two-year duration has two sides: knowing the work around the theater carried out by each of our schools and, above all, developing a collaboration that will culminate in the representation of one or various theatre plays by mixed groups of students from the four schools. The European cultural heritage will be the object on which our students will work: mixed workgroups will be formed from the beginning with, at least, two students from each school who throughout each school year will prepare one of the following topics:
– Selection of scenes from different plays, at least one from each participating country, although they may also belong to the dramatic literature of other countries in Europe. Once the proposed scenes have been chosen, the texts will have to be adapted to our vernacular languages and to English. With the scenes selected by all the groups, a play that offers a panorama of European theater from antiquity to the present time will be built.
– Elaboration of the “original” scenes that serve as a transition between the different fragments.
– Selection, adaptation and rehearsal of musical fragments that accompany the different scenes (bearing in mind that there will be musicians in our own schools).
– Preparation of studies on the European theater that will complement the main project: (works, authors, most important theatrical academies, etc.) to present to the project’s colleagues and in each of the schools.
– Throughout the development of the project, once the selection of scenes is advanced, technical teams will also be formed to work on aspects such as scenery, lighting, sound, etc.
Teams should have frequent contact, mainly through eTwinning, but also using other online work tools. For this, we will take advantage of the great experience acquired in the months of confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a time in which videoconferences, shared files and remote coordination have been compulsory for all of us (in Princesa Galiana, for example, every student and teacher is now an expert using g-suite platform). There will be meetings of the coordinating groups (made up of teachers and students) at least once a month.
Broadly speaking, during the first year the fragments that will form part of the work will be selected and prepared. Well advanced the first year, the first coordination meeting of all the groups in Toledo will take place. In this general meeting, the project progress will be evaluated; the scenes will be worked on , and the next steps will be organized. The second year, in which there will be trips to the four cities, will be devoted to rehearsals and performances, incorporating necessary technical and artistic equipment. Each city, each school and each educational community will be able to enjoy the performances resulting from the work of all the groups. We expect a very important impact on the direct participants, but also the project will promote among our communities love for theater, appreciation for the common European cultural heritage, the importance of coexistence and cooperation, the value of effort and the importance of learning languages. It will be a reinforcement for artistic teaching. We truly believe that the school theater network should be a project that has continuity with new partners from different parts of Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 131715 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Princesa Galiana & Country: ES

Project Partners

• IIS Francesco Orioli
• Antalya Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• Miskolci Szakkepzesi Centrum Mezokovesdi Szent Laszlo Gimnaziuma, Kozgazdasagi Szakgimnaziuma és Kollégiuma