Drama Education

Drama Education at Özge Fennibilek Academy

Drama education offered at Özge Fennibilek Academy is a comprehensive program that helps students discover their creativity, express themselves and gain self-confidence. Drama education helps individuals develop skills such as speaking comfortably in front of a crowd, acting and improvisation, while also helping them gain empathy and emotional awareness. The education provided at the Academy is structured at appropriate levels for children and adults and is designed to support the individual development of participants.

In drama classes, students develop their artistic and social skills through group work, role plays and improvisation exercises. This process allows participants to gain stage experience and express their feelings and thoughts in creative ways. Drama activities and stage performances organized at the Academy provide students with an opportunity to showcase their talents and bring them closer to art.

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What is Drama?

Drama is an artistic discipline in which individuals express their feelings, thoughts and experiences through animation. Drama, which forms the basis of theater plays, enables people to develop their social and emotional skills through techniques such as improvisation, role playing and storytelling. Drama encourages creative thinking, while also contributing to the strengthening of skills such as empathy, public speaking and self-confidence. Educational drama studies help individuals to know themselves and their environment better, while supporting their artistic and social development.

Benefits of Drama Education

Drama education contributes significantly to both the personal development and social skills of individuals. Here are the main benefits of drama education:

1. Development of Self-Confidence:

Drama education improves public speaking and self-expression skills. Going on stage and playing different roles increases students' self-confidence and helps them be more comfortable in social environments.

2. Development of Creativity and Imagination:

Drama encourages individuals' creative thinking skills. They enrich their imagination by portraying different characters and developing stories.

3. Empathy and Emotional Awareness:

Understanding the perspectives of different characters by taking on the roles develops individuals' empathy skills. Drama helps people understand the people around them better by increasing emotional awareness.

4. Communication and Social Skills:

Drama classes improve individuals' effective communication skills. Group work and role-playing games encourage teamwork and strengthen social relationships.

5. Problem Solving and Critical Thinking:

Drama strengthens the skills of solving problems encountered on stage and making quick decisions by improvising. This process increases individuals' analytical thinking capacity.

Drama Techniques and Application Methods

Drama techniques and application methods consist of various tools used to develop emotional, social and artistic skills of individuals. These techniques encourage creative thinking and allow individuals to express themselves in different ways. Here are some techniques and application methods frequently used in drama education:

Improvisation

Improvisation involves producing something on stage, without a specific script or preparation, with spontaneous creative thinking. This technique allows students to think quickly, find creative solutions, and act spontaneously. Improvisation is often used in group work and is a great tool for individuals to challenge their imagination.

Role play

Role playing is when students take on a certain character and act out that character's feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. This technique strengthens empathy skills and allows individuals to explore different perspectives. Role playing is especially used in storytelling and group interactions.

Pandomime

Pantomime allows you to express feelings and thoughts non-verbally through gestures and facial expressions. Telling a story with just body language without verbal communication helps students gain body awareness and understand the power of body language.

Corridor of Thought

In this technique, a group of students stand in two rows facing each other and share their thoughts to help a character make a decision about a particular issue. The person in the character role walks between the two rows while group members voice their different points of view.

Hot Chair

In this technique, a student assumes the role of a character while other students ask him or her various questions. Hot chairing provides a deep understanding of the character and allows students to explore a character's thoughts and feelings.

Forum Theatre

Forum theatre is a technique in which participants act out a scene and then the audience can intervene and change the actions of the characters. This method encourages experimentation with different solutions and critical thinking.

Storytelling

Storytelling is one of the most fundamental elements of drama education. Students create their own stories or re-enact existing stories. Storytelling stimulates the imagination and encourages creative thinking.

Statue

Sculpture or frozen moment involves a group of students acting out a specific event or situation in a still. Students represent a specific scene through physical positions and then interpret the scene. This technique is based on visual narration and physical expression.

Theatre of Emotions

Emotional theater allows students to explore a specific emotion and express it on stage in various ways. This method increases emotional awareness and helps individuals recognize their own emotions.

Inner Voice

Inner voice is used to describe what a character is feeling or thinking in a scene. This method of the character speaking his thoughts out loud allows for the exploration of the character's inner world and a deeper understanding of the story.