Five Plays and Five Pantomimes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Baldwin, Sidney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330850254 ISBN 13: 9781330850251

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Pantomimes are simply a series of progressions from one climax to another. These I have, for convenience, called poses. Every pose should be held while the child counts four, slowly, to himself. This is to give the audience the chance to observe the pose fully, and to understand what is meant by it, because it is the key to what follows. All these climaxes are not of equal importance, but they will soon subordinate themselves naturally if the children have any dramatic instinct at all. If they do not, after three or four rehearsals, catch the idea of the play, then it is advisable not to attempt a pantomime.

When the children thoroughly know the story of the pantomime, let first one and then another tell it over before the dance begins. At a final entertainment, when the dances are given before an audience, one of the children in her own words tells the story. This is much prettier than any set form which could be given. If desired, the child's version may be printed on the program. If this is done the entire performance is given by the children instead of a part of it being a parrot-like repetition of something an older person has written.

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Excerpt from Five Plays and Five Pantomimes

The Plays. These little plays are primarily designed to supply the need for children's dramas that may be worked out with out the necessity for long training, elaborate costuming or expensive accessories. The undoubted benefit that a child derives from such plays is too often offset by the nervous wear and tear of long rehearsals and the strain and fret of over much preparation.

It is the aim of this book to develop the small actor's ingenuity and imagination rather than to perfect his capacity for memorizing by repetition. The most radical point of difference between this and other books of children's plays is the substitution of dances where songs have ordinarily been used - simple dances for groups, individual pantomime dances for the separate characters. The superiority of the dance over the song is rapidly becoming recognized by modern child-educators everywhere, since the dance provides a proper outlet for a child's natural energy, increases self-confidence, poise and ease of movement, and encourages self-expression, none of which benefits can be claimed for songs.

These little plays will appeal to the children because in plot and characters they belong to that border country between fact and fancy in which little folk love to wander.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1330850254
• ISBN 13: 9781330850251
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 166