New European Young Actors Company Erasmus Project

Project Title

New European Young Actors Company

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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Our project was corresponding to a KA2 : cooperating in innovating fields and teaching methods exchanges. Lasting 24 months, it was part of strategic partnerships for school education.

Its prospects are to :
– fight against early leaving school
– Improve integration for pupils with social difficulties, with handicaps, and from minorities
– set new European teaching skills, by praticing and to learning how to practice as an integration tool and school revitalising
– create a theatre company with early leaving pupils or with difficulties for integration
– Performing during the opening show of a Professional and Interanational Festival
– Offer a Multilingual ( National And Regional Language of the participants ) and Commedia Dell’Arte version Of ” Cyrano de Bergerac “.
– Stage on real theater during international and national tour

This project gathered 6 different partners :
– Komidi association, a non-profit organisation that organizes a yearly, professional and international theatre festival.
– Teatro Picaro, a professional theatre company specialized in Commedia dell’Arte
– Pierre Poivre highschool, located in Saint Joseph (Reunion Island) situated in a UPR
– Ischia Liceo Statale highschool located in Ischia, Italy
– Balint Marton Altalanos es Középiskola located in Törökbalint (Hungary)
– Kaufmännische Schule Heidenheim located in Heidenheim (Germany)

Initially, partners decided to work on the play ” Songes d’une Nuit d’ été (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)” by W. Shakespeare. As in each schoolt 20 pupils participated to the project, to allow everyone to have a character they switched and settled ” Cyrano de Bergerac “. For this pupils followed a formation around the Commedia Dell’Arte ‘s character, they all got repetition in their respective country. From this group of pupils, 10 from each country integrated the international company and performed for the international tour.
As we settled the project, professional company Teatro Picaro animated workshops for the teachers who were in charge to support this project during two years. Picaro goes twice in each partners country to organise specific workshops who were necessary for the show. Between the two sessions organised by the company, pupils continued their formation with their teachers in charge and formed for this, and with the remediation from Teatro Picaro who had access to working session of pupils uploaded on our YouTube Channel.

Scheduled activities :
4 transnational meetings allowing to :
– define the selection criteria for the pupils’ appliance. Establish a procedure for the integration of pupils with specific needs.
– Organize the implementation of formation session on theatral practice in school to create a educational tool of integration and revitalization
– Create the different tools (rating, teaching sheets, what-to-do procedure, innovation mind apping)
– Create and finalize a DVD with the show
– Assume the follow up work (intermediate and final reports)

Training, teaching and transnational learning activities :
– Setting up of a training session by the Teatro Picaro on drama and communication skills : «  the body and the speech » for the teachers
– Two training sessions of eight days with the pupils and the teachers in each country : training about the commedia Dell’Arte had for goal to prepare pupils to be able to get on stage and perform with a professional quality. At the end of these formaton, pupils who were participating to interntional and national tours were choosed.

Short term exchanges of groups of pupils during the European tours:
– Five pupils of each country met for the first time in Reunion during the final phase of the show creation wich lasted 15 days and 10 workinf hours per days. The show was completed at last.
– Shows were presented on Réunion Island, at the 2016 Komidi festival then in Ischia, Heidenheim and Budapest.

All realised production were uploaded on website
http://www.neyac.eu
On You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIM6qRZKM1pM_XmuAo09blA

But also on EPRP, for those who want to re-use them (still waiting for an answer from Hekpdesk)

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 227149,8 Eur

Project Coordinator

KOMIDI & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Teatro Picaro
• Kaufmännische Schule Heidenheim
• Bálint Márton Általános Iskola és Középiskola
• Lycée général et technologique Pierre Poivre
• LICEO STATALE ISCHIA