The Croatian Heritage Foundation, in collaboration with prominent theatre director Nina Kleflin, has again this year staged a seminar in July for the heads of theatre and dramatic arts groups active abroad. Fifteen participants made the trip to the island of Galovac/Školjić from a number of European countries.
The dramatic arts in a quotidian setting are an excellent medium within which to study language and culture, the development of creativity and personal development of language and its use, offered as an extracurricular form of work with youth, notes stage director Kleflin.
Creating theatre in the methodological approach of director Kleflin allows young people to engage in a polyphone dialogue: with the stage play itself as it is created, with the other participants in the dramatic act, with the audience as a co-creator of the play, with the society in which one lives, with art and with life in general.
If we understand the Creating Theatre seminar as a form of teaching through the dramatic arts creative experience, where dramatic expression is used as a specific medium, then the essence of dramatic expression is the play as a creative act, says project head Kleflin.
In the course of the eight-day seminar, creative work and socialising the participants will hear a number of useful tips and acquire practical knowledge they can apply in their future work. The programme is divided into morning theory sessions with audio-visual materials and afternoon practical work.
This inspiring theatre workshop project is organised by the Croatian Heritage Foundation and has for almost two decades now attracted culture professionals and amateurs from the Croatian communities abroad. The artistic director of the seminar is Nina Kleflin, with Nives Antoljak serving as project head. Also lecturing at the seminar is CHF staffer Vesna Kukavica, covering the topic of Theatre as a Medium for the Development of Croatian Cultural Identity.
Text by: Vesna Kukavica
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In the course of the eight-day seminar, creative work and socialising the participants will hear a number of useful tips and acquire practical knowledge they can apply in their future work. The programme is divided into morning theory sessions with audio-visual materials and afternoon practical work.