Specificity of formation of creative activity skills in studio theatre: competency-based approach

Natalia B Buyanova,Olga G Orekhova,Lyubov E Shevchuk,Stanislav N Mikhaylov,Alexey P Efremenko,N.A Orekhovskaya

doi:10.1051/shsconf/202110301046

Abstract

This article presents the experimental results of analysis of efficiency of teaching methods aimed at formation of creative activity skills of future actors during training in studio theatre. In the course of the research, psychological and pedagogical theories of formation of creative activity skills were studied; on the basis of experiments, the efficiency of specially developed methods aimed at formation of creative activity skills was proved. These are the methods of development of imagination and thinking, actor abilities, expansion of emotional sphere, worldview and experience of actors in the area of perception of arts pieces, and scenic practice in working on role and stage performance. The authors have systematized the skills of theatrical performance and highlighted as the most meaningful the skills of artistry, scenic mastery, creation of new images or actions, application of various means of stage arts, preparation and performance of stage pieces of various genres, execution of professional functions of actor, director, scriptwriter. Practical value of the work is in obtaining of new scientific data as well as formulation of recommendations regarding the process of formation and development of creative activity skills of students during training in studio theatre.

Highlights

Specificity of creative activity is comprised of creation of cardinally new and unique in the field of science, arts in accordance with human’s demands: new inventions and discoveries, pieces of music, arts, theatrical and other works
Experimental work on formation of creative activity skills was carried out in Benefis studio theatre in Moscow. 20 persons participated in the experiment, 18 to 23 years old, who were in the group trained in the studio from September 2019 to May 2020
The program of diagnostics of formation level of creative activity skills at experimental stage was based on the method of problematic assignment, comprised of independent work on role in a new play, including all stages from the first conversance with the play to mastering peculiar features of personage [15]

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Specificity of creative activity is comprised of creation of cardinally new and unique in the field of science, arts in accordance with human’s demands: new inventions and discoveries, pieces of music, arts, theatrical and other works. Subjective significance of creativity is that the creative activity becomes an act of self-expression and realization of creative potential of a person. The issue of formation of creative skills and development of creative abilities up till attracts the attention of philosophers, psychologists, and pedagogists. L.S. Vygotsky considered that creativity was a required condition of human existence, activity on creation of qualitatively new, not existing previously in terms of conception and material embodiment [1]. The new could be a thing of ambient world or mental construction existing only in consciousness of creator [1]

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