"Physical Theatre for Youth" is an intercontinental initiative in Capacity Building Programme of Erasmus + between 3 countries from Europe (represented by Stowarzyszenie Pozytywnych Zmian, DATS - landsforeningen for dramatisk virksomhed, Plateforme de la jeune création franco-allemande), and 3 countries from South America, (CASA MITOMANA INVERNADERO CULTURAL, Asociación Cultural Casa del Silencio Maison du Silence and High on Life Chile).The main objective of our Capacity Building project is to enable the development of artistic education of youth through support the cooperation between Theatre Centres for Youth between Poland, Denmark, France, Ecuador, Colombia and Chile for developing education and awareness in the area of physical theatre and fostering entrepreneurship among young practitioners in this field increasing their international opportunities and boosting their competencies. In contrast to most commercial and subsidized mainstream theatre the physical theatre centres lack subventions all over the world. We want to build a sustainable partnership between Youth centres caring about physical theatre and social aspect of drama. Our partnership aims at supporting non-formal mobility for youth workers and for youth from outlying countries. The project responds to the needs of young people who want to undertake intercontinental projects with youth from different regions of the world and pursue artistic research in physical theatre in order to promote transnational non-formal learning mobility between Programme and Partner Countries. The idea is to include young people with fewer opportunities, with a view to improving participants' level of competences and fostering their active participation in society. Physical theatre education in all partners countries is extremely scant and this phenomenon is global.We will create and perform an international performance using different approaches from physical theatre. Our main innovative way will be mixing the power of mythology with the cultural heritage of human body. The human body is essential to human myth and storytelling, as it is the original source of sensation and apprehension that gives rise to all questions and all attempts to answer them. Theatre and theatre education are extremely dynamic fields of art. The approaches and trends that are crucial for today’s theatre in a decade’s time may turn out to be incomprehensible and simply irrelevant. We will build and share steps of creation of the physical theatre script for education purposes and an international e-platform of audio-visual exercises translated into several languages. Through the platform we will share a diverse choice of existing theatre workshops around Europe, which youth will use in different theatre centers to foster shows based on myths touching touching social problems. Our long-term effect of the project will be shared among the networks of theatre centers in Europe and in South America.
The main goal was to enable the development of artistic education of young people including those with fewer opportunities:a)By supporting collaboration between artists of embodied drama and theatre institutions in Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Poland, France and Denmark by transnational training and building awareness of the variety of methods (via multilingual OER in several European languages)b)By strengthening youth multiplanar civic (democratic) and professional skills (entrepreneurship)
Physical Theatre for Youth was a project designed for students, young adults, and artists from Europe and South America willing to undertake cross-cultural research in the embodied theatre approach. The project was intended to provide a network of artists from remote regions and to carry out capacity building activities for educators and physical theatre practitioners. This was the first initiative of its kind undertaken for the development of the physical theatre community.
<< Background >> Physical Theatre for Youth was a project designed for students, young adults, and artists from Europe and South America willing to undertake cross-cultural research in the embodied theatre approach. The project was intended to provide a network of artists from remote regions and to carry out capacity building activities for educators and physical theatre practitioners. This was the first initiative of its kind undertaken for the development of the physical theatre community. << Objectives >> The main goal was to enable the development of artistic education of young people including those with fewer opportunities:a)By supporting collaboration between artists of embodied drama and theatre institutions in Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Poland, France and Denmark by transnational training and building awareness of the variety of methods (via multilingual OER in several European languages)b)By strengthening youth multiplanar civic (democratic) and professional skills (entrepreneurship) << Implementation >> We implemented 5 working groups of activities.1 - Building partnership in 2021 (kick-off meeting in Poland to develop project management standards)2 - Sharing approaches in physical theatre, 3 - Testing the methodology, 4 - Creating educational tools through mobilities in 2022 – training courses in Ecuador, France, Chile, job shadowing mobilities in Denmark, Colombia.5 - Large Scale Youth Event in Poland in 2023 (presentation of international shows and the OER platform live streamed). << Results >> The main tangible product is the multilingual e-platform (Physicaltheatre.online) with HD audio-visual exercises in embodied drama (with text exercises, gallery of artists with different methodologies, workshop finder), i.e., tools for a broad spectrum of usage (cultural, social, inclusion pedagogy) by different target groups in Europe, South America and other international stakeholders. We created performances based on intercontinental research searching for the roots of theatre movement.