Your Summer - Your Show
The Department for Jewish Zionist Education
The CRB Foundation
YOUR SUMMER - YOUR SHOW
Theater Company - Jerusalem
Purpose:
Provide an entertaining and creative outlet for participants to assess
their summer program. Instruct and encourage them to "act out" the
dilemmas, challenges and questions they encountered. Use a theatrical
framework to enable the teenagers to express their emotions, "let off
steam", laugh and gain a new perspective on their stay in Israel.
Process: Professionals in the field of the performing
arts have put together a program of theater games, workshops and
performance techniques that enable participants to be both actors and
audience. An emphasis on humor helps the "actors" communicate their
ideas to a more receptive audience. Together, they relive the amusing
moments they shared and recall the more serious ones.
Implementors:
Gabriella Lev, artistic director of Theater Company Jerusalem,
who has extensively implemented and adapted the program over the past
seven years. Lev hand-picked and trained the performer educators who
work with her.
Target Group: Paticularly teen-age and college
groups but has been very succesful with adults, golden-age and family
missions.
Number of Participants: Minimum-10; Maximum- 200.
Duration of activity: One to one and a half
hours.
Location of activity: Can be done any where
indoors-a large empty room preferable.
Aids and materials: None.
Special requirements: None.
Background: T.C.J. has won national and
international acclaim for its innovative work in transposing Jewish
traditional texts to modern performing art. Gabi Lev has run workshops
in Yale and Wessleyan Universitites, Melton Institue and H.U.C. She has
used this module with Noar and Hehalutz, Sochnut, N.F.T.Y.; U.S.Y.;
Metzada; U.J.A. and Melitz.
Additional Modules
- Creative Workshop on Jewish Themes Together with group
leader, T.C.J. chooses a theme and designs a workshop to deal with
Jewish heritage issues vis a vis current realities of Jewish life.
- Women in the Jewish Tradition Aimed at college students and
adults. A look at famous women in the Bible and Talmud, such as Sarah
and Bruria, and a comparison with lesser known women throughout Jewish
tradition.
- Exploration of Midrashic texts through Performance For
college students or adults. Participants are given clear artistic
paramenters and dramatic techniques to create and perform their own
midrash.
For information and orders:
In Israel:
Theater Company Jerusalem,
POB 4727, Jerusalem 91044.
Tel: 02-619057/664871
Contact Person: Ms. Gabi Lev.
In the USA:
Youth and Hechalutz Department,
110 E. 59th Str. N.Y.C. N.Y. 10022.
Tel: 212-339-6002; Fax: 212-755-4781
Contact Person: Zeev Machnai.
Arts
Last updated: 06/05/95
Esther Carciente: esthers@jajz-ed.org.il
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