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Cheers & Loud Company

We are a group of musicians, theatre-makers and writers organising theatre and music workshops for children aged between 7-18 years old. We have experience in teaching both on an individual and a group level. Our main aim is to give the opportunity to children and young people to explore their imagination and talents through self-expression and team-work.

This series of theatre and music workshops makes use of a diversity of techniques: interactive storytelling sessions, games and improvisation, work with costume and props, singing and playing instruments. Our main objective is to create a live, stimulating and engaging environment for children through the creative experience.

Based on improvisatory or written material, movement exercises, the development of characters and the use of mime and props, experimenting with voice and Orff instruments, children’s imaginative play aims at developing self-confidence, self-discipline, creative thought, enhancing perception, observation and concentration skills and the ability to interact and collaborate with others.

This program of workshops enables children to discover and explore their natural creativity under the guidance of experienced theatre artists/musicians and gain skills through participating and performing in a secure and fun environment.

This series of workshops is also designed to introduce participants to stimulating and playful theatre and music material and cultivate an awareness of all sides of performance. It is also dedicated to providing an excellent learning experience. Classes are quite small, and the three-hour session is uniquely structured so that children are inspired, challenged, educated and entertained, but also have the chance to work towards the realisation of a full scale theatrical and musical production.

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Outline

One-month overview / one group

Maximum number of people per group: 10 to 15

Age range

- 5 to 7 years old

- 8 to 11 years old

- 12 to 15 years old

Fees:

•  4 sessions per month each of 3 hours duration
•  £40 per session / per student
•  4 sessions x £40 = £160 per student / per month

Workshop leaders/ teachers in the classroom: 3

Year structure by terms:

Autumn

Start: Monday 8 Sep ’08

Finish: Saturday 13 Dec ‘08

Half Term: Monday 27 Oct - Saturday 1 Nov ‘08

Weeks: 13

Spring

Start: Monday 5 Jan ‘09

Finish: Saturday 4 Apr ‘09

Half Term: Monday 16 Feb - Saturday 21 Feb ‘09

Weeks: 12

Summer

Start: Monday 20 Apr ‘09

Finish: Monday 13 Jul ‘09

Half Term: Monday 25 May - Saturday 30 May ‘09

Weeks: 11

Please note that each workshop embraces different levels and material from the aims and objectives / guidelines of this company, please see document attached.

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Guidelines

Aims - Pedagogical, mental and educative

Psychomotor level

•  To contribute to a minimization of motor problems
•  To introduce notions of laterality, posture, balance and motor velocity
•  To develop notions of space, time and body

Emotional level

•  To enrich an aesthetical sense
•  To develop artistic capabilities/ capacities
•  To stimulate willingness
•  To contribute towards a receptive state of being
•  To provide a fascinating atmosphere in order to diminish disquiet or aggression by creating new spaces for a more dynamic and pro-active behavior

Cognitive level

•  To contribute towards a holistic and harmonious development of intellectual capacities
•  To stimulate awareness, intelligence, memory, comprehension, power of concentration and creative capacities
•  To stimulate social integration using the mini- structure of an orchestra and choir

Objectives

Musicianship – aural education

•  Aural sensitivity and awareness
•  Codification and de-codification
•  Aural memorization
•  Inner hearing
•  Relation between sonic and visual

Rhythmical education

•  To develop an awareness of rhythm sensitivity – power of rhythm
•  To develop rhythmical memory
•  To develop motor coordination
•  To develop a notion of music notes shapes
•  To develop a notion of time and space / tempo

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Music reading

•  To develop an awareness of sound and the schematic dimension of notation
•  To develop various techniques concerning aural awareness such as inner hearing
•  To develop the skill of detecting and following the information contained in a score
•  To contribute towards a rhythmical/ melodic and harmonic awareness
•  To develop the capacity of de-coding musical and theatrical symbols
•  To develop a sense of structure
•  To develop an inner consciousness of senses through the codification and de-codification of a text or score

Script - Scores

•  Awareness of rhythm patterns of phrases in music and language
•  Cultivation of aesthetical values
•  Analytical skills
•  To develop the capacity of evaluation
•  To create a sense of well being
•  To stimulate expressive movement and dramatization

Improvisation

•  To develop confidence in working creatively, a sense of freedom and spontaneity
•  To develop a sense of affectivity
•  To encourage personality affirmation
•  To develop auto-control and focus/concentration
•  To nurture curiosity, creative desire and systematic observation
•  To contribute towards the complete integral expressive use of the body
•  To contribute to the development of all intellectual capacities
•  To develop an awareness of musicality and creative arts
•  To develop aesthetical, analytical and consistent well being

Movement awareness

•  To develop an awareness of imagination, aesthetical and creative expression
•  To perfect motor coordination
•  To develop a notion of reflexes and their velocity
•  To develop the capacity of adaptation, which is necessary for an harmonious work and performance atmosphere
•  To be able to capture the range of sound qualities within movements and words
•  To stimulate cultural enrichment by generating a vast awareness of music styles, performances, periods, composers, writers, aesthetics
•  To develop a fine coordination between sonic and visual

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