It is not known exactly when, in the history of human beings, people began to express themselves through artistic means. However, a lot of people think that art, including music, the fine art and dancing has been a part of human life since the beginni...
It is not known exactly when, in the history of human beings, people began to express themselves through artistic means. However, a lot of people think that art, including music, the fine art and dancing has been a part of human life since the beginning of society. According to the traces of human beings, primitive art was very similar to real life. Sacrificial rites were an event of ancient group consciousness. The officiating priest became the embodiment of God, asking the invisible world for help, and then returning to daily routine after it had finished. This was done for a better and more affluent community. The people who watched sacrificial rites were motivated to live better by experiencing a heightened perception of their reality.
Similarly, human beings are connected with a play. We can convey a piece of play as a real world scenario. Each actor in a play has his or her own role, relating to others. They also have connections with many assistants during the production of a play and relations to the audiences during a performance. These could be grounds for the practical educational use of a play. We are able to change our consciousness with art. Recently, people are gaining more interest in the educational and therapeutic efficiency of a play.
This thesis began from an interest in the efficiency of improvised acting training of children. Improvised acting is very effective in that it allows children to be able to express things in an efficient way and gives them opportunities to realize their social roles. Improvised acting is play which is not planned and practiced. It could magnify the effects of expressing oneself by acting without a script but a subject matter or eliciting from the inherent things naturally in a simulated situation. Therefore, I would like to focus on the point that improvised acting could be an effective way for the sociality training of children.
I examined literature and previous studies on improvised acting, educational play and dramatic therapy so that I could prove the efficiency of improvised acting theoretically. Based on it, I trained 10 students (3rd grade ~ 6th grade in elementary school)in a dramatic company, <Nal-za>, 10 times (for 2hours each training), to prove the improvement in sociality training with improvised acting.
I observed whether these assumptions are improved or not through improvised acting.
1) It helps them to recognize social roles and expand their roles.
2) It helps them to adapt themselves to society by improving the ability to create, do something by themselves, cooperate and react instantly.
3) It rebuilds their pleasure and confidence by experiencing catharsis.
Consequently, students are able to confirm the existence of various roles and understand their own social roles. They also could develop the ability to create, do something by themselves, cooperate and react instantly. Above all, I was impressed with the amount of confidence they have built and their positive reactions to the improvised situation. This study made me to experience the advantage of improvised acting and gave me the chance to be sure of its effectiveness sociality training provides for children. I hope improvised acting become a popular method of sociality training for children from now on and that thesis proves to be a foundation for that.