LAB@SCHOOL
Teatro Magro in schools
Teatro Magro has been working in the field of Theatre-School for twenty years, during which it has gained knowledge and expertise useful to support youngsters in their growth with meaningful and cultural activities.
Great importance is given to the theatre operator leading the workshops, who follows a period of on-the-job training with the senior colleagues, and then continues his/her education on the field with the support of periodic monitoring and constant dialogues on the poetic view of the cooperative and the educational approach.
Teatro Magro’s method was born and evolved for the purpose of “pursuing the general interest of the community (…) on human promotion and social integration” (art. 3 Cooperative Statute). Therefore, the Cooperative plans at a local level with Schools of all levels and with public and private institutions, paying close attention to the peripheral areas that are hardly reached by the cultural offer.
Since the s.y. 2021.2022 Teatro Magro joined the Coordinate System for promotion of “creativity topics – theatrical-performative field” in the National System for Education and Training.
All laboratories use theatre techniques suitable for the age of the participants and their ability to work as a group, giving value to each one’s personality and originality and pursuing the following learning outcomes:
• SELF-ESTEEM: theatre as a neutral area in which to express ourselves and to lower barriers and timidities, in order to create strong and self-motivated personalities;
• SELF-CONTROL: education to the control of our own body, by itself and in space, in gesture and stillness, on its own and in relation to others, with the use of specific exercises and tools to explore differences and similarities with the others’ bodies and to improve the perception of space-time coordinates;
• RELATIONSHIP: team exercises develop a habit of teamworking, making theatre a tool to consolidate interpersonal relationships;
• DRAMMATISATION: communicating feelings and personal ideas through verbal expression; theatre writing as a new expressive way, free from prejudices and codified rules;
• ASTHETIC CRITICAL SENSE: since theatre doesn’t correspond to attention-seeking behaviour, it is required an ability to observe, to listen, to give a new, imaginative meaning to everyday objects; to look at ourselves in order to be more and more capable of self-evaluating our own performance.
