REVIEW OF ARTISTIC EDUCATION
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Journal Code: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218
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Number: 27
Cover Date (month and year): 03.2024
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Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 01_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0001 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0001
Title: MUSIC AND THE FLOW STATE
Author(s): Dorina Geta Iușcă
Affiliation(s): Associate Professor PhD., “George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iaşi, România
Abstract: The flow state is the mental state in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. Flow is characterized by the complete absorption in what one does, and a resulting transformation in one's sense of time. Flow is the melting together of action and consciousness; the state of finding a balance between a skill and how challenging that task is. It requires a high level of concentration and a task that matches one's skill set. Music and flow go hand in hand, as a growing body of research demonstrate that many musical activities such as music performance, music composition and music education tend to elicit high levels of flow. The present study aims to review the latest findings associated to the link between music and flow and to show the importance of this optimal state in creating excellence in music.
Key words: flow state, music performance, music education, music composition
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 02_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0002 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0002
Title: MUSIC AS AN AGENT OF SOCIAL CHANGE: AN INSPIRING WORK BY LUIGI NONO
Author(s): Rossella Marisi
Affiliation(s): Professor PhD., Conservatorio “Luisa D’Annunzio”, Pescara, Italy
Abstract: While in the 19th century conservatories were seen as ivory towers, distant from social and economic matters, today the theory termed Socially Engaged Music (SEM), analogous to the already established theory of Socially Engaged Art (SEA), proposes to modernize the mission of these institutions to serve the aspirations and needs of the society in which they operate. This article outlines the key aspects of SEA and SEM and identifies Luigi Nono’s work La fabbrica illuminata as an enlightening example of music focused on social issues.
Key words: activism, art for art’s sake, commitment, Nono, Socially Engaged Art
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 03_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0003 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0003
Title: THE VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE, EXPRESSIVENESS, AND VIRTUOSITY IN LUIGI BASSI'S CONCERT FANTASIA ON THEMES FROM RIGOLETTO
Author(s): Doru Albu, Zaharia Hojbotă
Affiliation(s): Professor PhD., Assistant Candidate Doctoral, “George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iaşi, România
Abstract: This scientific paper presents and highlights the musicality and virtuosity that Luigi Bassi perfected with the help of the variational principle, using themes of a unique expressiveness from the opera Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi. The work is addressed to clarinetists with a well-developed technique and a qualitative and homogeneous sonority throughout the clarinet's ambitus. In the present scientific and interpretive approach, we propose to decode and present elements of structure, diverse instrumental techniques, and ways of interpreting the themes and variations, that coincide with the composer's desire. We will highlight the instrumental technique problems, proposals to optimize (solve) them, and ways to highlight sound colors, depending on the message the performer conveys. We believe that this study can be of real use both to teaching staff and students in the didactic activity, but also to the valuable instrumentalists involved in the interpretative activity, bearing in mind that the work has a very high degree of difficulty.
Key words: Variational principle, variations, musicality, virtuosity, instrumental techniques
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 04_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0004 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0004
Title: THE COLLECTION OF STUDIES “VIOLINSCHULWERK” IN KLAUS HERTEL PUBLISHING HOUSE - ULFERT THIEMANN - METHODICAL APPROACHES TO VIOLIN TECHNIQUE
Author(s): Alina Stanciu
Affiliation(s): Associate Professor PhD., “Gheorghe Dima” National Academy of Music, Cluj-Napoca, România
Abstract: The education of technical-interpretive skills from various methodical perspectives, with disciplinary tangents, represents a topic of great importance and topicality of instrumental pedagogy. The collection of studies “Violinschulwerk” edited by the renowned pedagogues and performers Klaus Hertel and Ulfert Thiemann welcomes violin students, future teachers, with a selection of studies and caprices of great variety and technical complexity, belonging to prominent representatives of the main violin schools. The included contents guide the instrumentalist towards a complete approach in interpretation, with the inherent realization of the correlation between technique - musical theory - style.
Key words: Education, Skills, Disciplinary tangents, Methodical analysis, Work techniques
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 05_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0005 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0005
Title: MODERN TECHNOLOGIES FOR REMOTE PERFORMING IN MUSICAL ENSEMBLES
Author(s): Dan Spînu
Affiliation(s): Associate Professor PhD. hab.,„George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iași, România
Abstract: During the pandemic, the issue of remote education was seriously raised for the first time, through the use of Internet. Music education has specific activities, such as performing in ensembles, where the usual internet solutions have proven inadequate, especially due to the very high latency. The article presents the results of the research project entitled “Development of solutions for remote musical education”, carried out in the “George Enescu” National University of Arts in Iași, whose first objective was to find technical solutions suitable for remote performing in ensembles, solutions which also offers new opportunities for collaboration between institutions located at a great distance, ensuring access to music education for those with disabilities, for those located at a great distance from university centers, as well as streamlining musical productions involving artists located at a distance.
Key words: remote music education, performing in ensembles, modern technologies
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 06_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0006 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0006
Title: THE ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH CHORAL CREATION OF CLASSICAL-ROMANTIC INFLUENCE
Author(s): George Dumitriu
Affiliation(s): Associate Professor PhD., “George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iaşi, România
Abstract: The liturgical singing of the Romanian Orthodox Church is monodic, of the Byzantine tradition. From the 19th century, under the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church, multiple voices choral singing penetrates the Romanian worship establishments. The beginnings were timid, isolated, from private initiatives and sometimes encountering the hostility of conservative ecclesiastical traditionalism. After 1959, the introduction of choral singing in the United Romanian Principalities was to be facilitated by state legislation. Choral singing would be used predominantly for the office of the Holy Liturgy. In finding a choral style suitable for the orthodox liturgical ceremonial, three main stylistic directions were outlined, among which the classical-romantic influence created a generous and varied repertoire.
Key words: monody, polyphony, harmony, choral music, Byzantine, repertoire, style
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 07_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0007 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0007
Title: THE DISCIPLINE OF HISTORY OF MUSIC: POSTMODERN CONSEQUENCES AND DEFORMATIONS
Author(s): Oleg Garaz
Affiliation(s): Associate Professor PhD. hab., “Gheorghe Dima” National Academy of Music, Cluj-Napoca, România
Abstract: Today, the discipline of music history does not seem to be, and indeed is no longer, what Guido Adler and Hugo Riemann formulated in their writings. The difference lies both in the structure and in the understanding of what is, in fact, and history, and music, then and now. If the intention of both inventors of modern musicology was a founding-recuperative one, then both the structure and the postmodern understanding rely exclusively on the recycling procedure with the meaning of rewriting. Hence the set of conflicts between, on the one hand, the new understandings and contents of more and more histories, and, on the other hand, the resistance to preserve the scholastic methodology, which generally refuses to evolve, forming new generations of students in terms of already anachronistic didactic contents.
Key words: deconstruction, deformation, metanarrative, reformulation, fragment, recycling
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 08_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0008 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0008
Title: STRING QUARTET NO. 3 OP. 73 IN F MAJOR BY DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH. MUSICAL LANGUAGE AND EXPRESSIVENESS
Author(s): Sebastian Vîrtosu
Affiliation(s): Associate Professor PhD. hab., “George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iaşi, România
Abstract: This quartet was composed in 1946 and followed a Symphony censored by the Soviet authorities, Symphony no. 9. The first audition took place on December 16, 1946, in the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, by the Beethoven Quartet, to whom the work was dedicated. The composition has been brutally denounced as a result of the horrors it portrays and also for the fact that it ends in an unclear, unusual way.
Key words: Dmitri Shostakovich's creation, 20th century, chamber music
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 09_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0009 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0009
Title: STRUCTURAL AND INTERPRETIVE APPROACHES IN INTRODUCTION, THEME AND VARIATIONS FOR CLARINET AND ORCHESTRA BY GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Author(s): Zaharia Hojbotă, Doru Albu
Affiliation(s): Assistant Candidate Doctoral, Professor PhD., “George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iaşi, România
Abstract: In this study, we aim to decode and highlight one of the most important works in the study of the clarinet, Introduction, Theme, and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra, by Gioachino Rossini. In this variation-type piece, G. Rossini optimally combines the problems of virtuosity that unfold over the entire range of the clarinet, with his usual cantability, of a perfect lyricism.With its ambitus, large intervals, and passages of virtuosity in various rhythmic formulas, the work falls into the category of great difficulty and represents a challenge for the soloist. Without being modest, if the piece is studied seriously, with the directions you will find in this study, the work can help clarinetists in their quest for perfection.
Key words: Variation, interpretative analysis, clarinet, Introduction, Theme and Variations, virtuosity
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 10_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0010 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0010
Title: INTERDISCIPLINARY NESS AND TRAINING OF COMPETENSES IN THE DISCIPLINE OF MUSIC EDUCATION
Author(s): Viorica Crisciuc
Affiliation(s): Associate Professor PhD., ”Alecu Russo” State University, Bălţi, Republic of Moldavia
Abstract: The article explores some aspects of interdisciplinarity in the teaching of Music Education. Interdisciplinarity is the highest degree of integration of curriculum specific to artistic fields, often going to fusion. Merging is therefore the most complex and radical phase of integration. The interdisciplinary approach is inclined towards a complete “decomposition” of the study subjects involved. The merging of knowledge, specific to the various disciplines leads to the emergence of investigative fields, the development of integrated projects or even the design of research programs conforming to the new paradigm.
Key words: interdisciplinarity, teaching-learning-evaluation process, musical education discipline
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 11_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0011 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0011
Title: L’ELISIR D’AMORE BY GAETANO DONIZETTI. MUSICAL AND DRAMATURGICAL ANALYSIS
Author(s): Cosmin Grigore Marcovici, Cristina Simionescu Fântână
Affiliation(s): Soloist, Romanian National Opera, Iași, Lecturer PhD., ”George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iași, Soloist, Romanian National Opera, Iași, Professor PhD. hab.,”George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iași, România
Abstract: Through this study we aim to analyze the musical and dramaturgical aspects of Gaetano Donizetti's creation. Through this lyric work, representative of the romantic creation of Italian opera in the 19th century, we have a reference representation from a musicological perspective.
Key words: dramaturgy, lyrical work, musicological analysis
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 12_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0012 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0012
Title: INCLUMUSIC - NEW SKILLS FOR INCLUSIVE HIGHER MUSIC EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
Author(s): Maria Cinque, Oana Bălan Budoiu, Ioana Zagrean
Affiliation(s): Professor PhD., LUMSA University, Rome, Italy, Associate Professor PhD., “Gheorghe Dima” National Academy of Music, Cluj-Napoca, România, Assistant PhD., LUMSA University, Rome, Italy
Abstract: IncluMusic is a project aimed at promoting the inclusion of students with special educational needs (SEN) and disadvantaged backgrounds in Higher Music Education. Starting from the analysis of the „state of the art” that shows a lack of specialised support and a poor practical implementation of inclusive policies for these students in most EU countries, the IncluMusic project envisages the creation of a pilot programme to train music teachers, administrative staff and tutors specialised in inclusive music education. The ultimate goal is to develop new approaches for the education of students with special educational needs in higher music education institutions and to create a community committed to inclusive teaching practices within the AFAM sector.
Key words: new skills, inclusive music education, teacher training, design principles, curriculum
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 13_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0013 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0013
Title: CONDUCTING PERSONALITIES OF THE ITALIAN SCHOOL. CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERPRETATION
Author(s): David Crescenzi
Affiliation(s): Conductor, Romanian National Opera, Iași, Associate Professor PhD., “Gheorghe Dima” National Academy of Music, Cluj - Napoca, România
Abstract: The art of conducting presents various typologies and characteristics that belong to the structure and personality of each individual conductor - the foundation of defining artistic individuality. Opera creation forces us to pay more attention to the technical aspects of the individual study of the conducting-interpretive gesture, which must always be correlated and complemented by the dramaturgical and psychological course of the characters.
Key words: art of conducting, orchestra, opera
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 14_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0014 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0014
Title: GEORG FRIEDRICH HAENDEL - SONATA FOR VIOLIN AND FIGURED BASS OP. 1, NO. 13
Author(s): Raluca Dobre Ioniță
Affiliation(s): Associate Professor PhD., “George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iaşi, România
Abstract: In the field of chamber music, Haendel is known for his six Sonatas for violin and basso continuo op. 1, creations that have kept a well-deserved place in the violin repertoire, being approached mainly for their melodic cantability, the clarity of the formal structures and the moderate technical difficulty. At G. Fr. Handel's sonata genre is distinguished by the characteristic unity of the thematic material, which bears the perfect mark of mastery. His sonatas are characterized by the breadth of the melodic line, the precise construction of the harmony and the generous sonority.
Key words: Handel, Sonata, violin, figured bass, analysis
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 15_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0015 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0015
Title: THE ROLE OF FOLKLORE IN THE FORMATION OF STUDENTS’ MUSICAL FEELING IN THE MUSIC EDUCATION LESSON
Author(s): Neculai Vieru
Affiliation(s): Candidate Doctoral, ”Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University, Chișinău, Republic of Moldavia
Abstract: The present paper reprezent an analysis of the characteristic features of naţional folklore that allow the cultivation of the musical feeling in students through the folkloric musical discourse wilthin the music education lessons. Through popular music, we offer the opportunitz tho reflect on sone earlz stages in the evolution of musical folklore. This fact can lead us to some important aspects regarding the origin of popular music, the discoverz of the charactristic features of the musical language. By cultivating musical frrlings in students during music education classes, we develop a favorable behavioral attitude towareds Romanian spirituality, expressed in its multiple historical valoues. On this value component, we take into account the human perceptive capacity, and the forms of musical manifestation. The students will be trained in music education classes, through the folkloric musical discourse, which will allow a direct development of the students personality in the national spirit.
Key words: musical language, national value, folk music
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 16_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0016 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0016
Title: ADDRESSING INTERDISCIPLINARY OF MUSIC
Author(s): Daniela Monica Grozavu
Affiliation(s): Candidate Doctoral, ”Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University, Chișinău, Republic of Moldavia, Primary School Teacher, "Avram Iancu" Secondary School, București, România
Abstract: Didactic strategies combine all the elements of the educational process, being a way of combining and chronologically organizing the set of methods and means chosen to achieve certain didactic objectives. This way,, the didactic strategy is expressed in organic units of methods, procedures, educational means and ways of organizing/achieving the learning process, i.e. head-on, in groups and individually [Potolea, D. The teacher and the strategies of learning management. Bucharest: Academy Publishing House, 1989, p. 146]. From the given perspective, we would like to mention that the didactic strategy unifies, integrates and brings together learning tasks with learning situations, creating a complex and logical system structured by means, methods, materials and other educational resources aimed at achieving certain objectives, which constitute a extremely necessary aspect in any pedagogical action, which finds its central place in the educational process. This is due to the fact that the design and organization of a lesson takes place in close connection with the strategic decision of the teaching staff and, therefore, it is designed as a complex didactic scenario, in which the actors of the educational act - of teaching-learning are involved, the conditions in which it is carried out, the objectives and the proposed methods. This way, the strategy determines the most appropriate, logical and efficient methodical itinerary for approaching a concrete teaching-learning situation, avoiding some errors, risks and unwanted events that may appear in the activity of the teaching staff.
Key words: Didactic strategy, teaching-learning-evaluation activity, concrete pedagogical objectives
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 17_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0017 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0017
Title: THE DEVELOPMENT OF MELODIC INTONATION WITHIN THE TRAINING OF PIANIST STUDENTS IN THE MUSIC SCHOOL
Author(s): Nelea Matcovschi
Affiliation(s): Teacher, Music School, Fălești, Republic of Moldavia
Abstract: This article elucidates the principles and methods of developing melodic intonation for teaching piano students in the music school setting. The training of the student-pianist in the music school will be focused not only on the formation and development of technical musical-interpretive skills, but also on the perception and penetration of the intonation and semantic content of the performed music.
Key words: Melodic intonation, piano instruction, musical-interpretive skills, musical hearing, musical skills
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 18_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0018 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0018
Title: COMPOSER AND PERFORMER: RATIONALE, AIM, ACHIEVEMENT OF A COLLABORATIVE PATH IN THE MUSICAL ARENA OF THE POST-WW2 AVANT-GARDE
Author(s): Peter Bradley-Fulgoni
Affiliation(s): Prof. ARCM FISM, concert pianist, Principal Piano Teacher at the Shrewsbury School, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
Abstract: Part of the academic and musical world still blames the peripheral sociological role of “contemporary music” on the laziness of the audience. Yet, there is evidence to realise that the audience is not precisely the only entity to refer to in order to have an exhaustive view-point on the role of post-WW2 avant-garde on our musical horizon. In fact, what, in the last 60 years, most performers of the highest level have shown through their approach -or lack thereof- to new music, clearly reminds us of the necessity to scrutinise the reason of this stalemate from the joint perspective of two different and equally competent musical figures: performer and composer.
Key words: atonality and musical discourse, avant-garde music, Boulez and Bernstein, Es muss sein, Massimo Di Gesu
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 19_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0019 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0019
Title: A PROGRAMMATIC VISION IN THE CREATION OF VLADIMIR SCOLNIC - WAR AND NOSTALGIA FOR SOLO CONTRABASS
Author(s): Săndel Smărăndescu
Affiliation(s): Interpreter instrumentalist, “George Enescu” Philharmonic, Associate Professor PhD., National University of Music, București, România
Abstract: The creation of the contrabass throughout the history of music and the evolution of musical instruments is quite limited. In the 20th century, the attention of composers was also towards this instrument, as evidenced by new and original creations.
Key words: musical creation, contrabass, instrumental technique
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 20_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0020 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0020
Title: SCENOGRAPHIC IDEA AND CONCEPT IN CONTEMPORARY THEATER OF ANIMATION, FROM TRADITION TO ARTISTIC EXPERIMENT
Author(s): Mihai Cosmin Iațeșen
Affiliation(s): Lecturer PhD., “George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iași, România
Abstract: In the era of accelerated digitization of all societal activities, artistic fields are also significantly affected by new technologies, which have a positive or negative influence on education as well. Visual arts have known surprising transformations and are increasingly faced with detachment and even delimitation from tradition. Puppetry, nowadays called theater of animation, has been favorable since ancient times to the constant mixtures specific to the language of visual arts, music and dance, since it relies on both tradition and modernity, on syncretism and functionality. The versatility of the language specific to the theater of animation largely appeals to the intellect of its audience, from the simple to the complex. The current superficiality of the artistic act is a consequence of the speed triggered by the alert rhythm of the search for new means of expression of the artist’s ideas and concepts, and also by people’s expectations. The transition from tradition to modernity can only be achieved through practice and experimentation. Unlike drama, the art of animation no longer preserves many constraints, this being a case-specific process. Various scenographers, puppeteers or companies, actors full of courage and vision such as Serghei Obrazțov, Yves Joly, Michael Meschke, Margareta Niculescu, Cristina and Cristian Pepino etc. made puppetry history for the new generations of artists passionate about puppetry. From scenographic idea to concept, the essential tool of the final perception’s shaping the message may be the actor’s stage improvisation, the scenographer’s spontaneous vision and the director’s openness to the present. The novelties brought about by numerous experiences contribute to the regeneration of the means, to the verticality of the evolution and the crystallization of the autonomy of the field.
Key words: theatre, scenography, animation, visual arts, tradition, experiment
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 21_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0021 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0021
Title: THE IMPORTANCE OF BODY CONSTRUCTION IN SPORTS PERFORMANCE
Author(s): Raluca Minea, Ana – Cristina Leșe
Affiliation(s): Lecturer PhD., Associate Professor PhD., “George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iași, România
Abstract: Starting from the morphological types established by anthropologists and sketchers artists over time based on experience of ”the real” and using the measurements performed on students at the gym of UNAGE Iaşi, correlated with studies in the field of anthropometry, we tried to demonstrate the close connection between the construction of the body and the different sports skills that could be exploited at a given moment at a high level. This study could be used in the eventuality of some selections in schools and in institutions with a sports program.
Key words: anthropometry, morphology, sport, performance
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 22_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0022 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0022
Title: THE MICHAEL CHEKHOV SYSTEM AND THE ACTOR
Author(s): Antonella Cornici
Affiliation(s): Associate Professor PhD., “George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iași, România
Abstract: Russian actor, director, and educator Michael Chekhov is renowned for his significant contributions to the art of acting. The system he developed promotes a creative, expressive, and internal approach to acting, assisting actors in creating authentic and memorable characters. Photo credit: Antonella Cornici (images are from the workshop led by Natalie Yalon on the topic of the Michael Chekhov System in Nancy, France, Erasmus program, November 2022).
Key words: actor, Michael Chekhov, character, theater
Filename: Review of Artistic Education - 10.35218 / 27 / 2024 / 23_paper.pdf
DOI: 10.35218/rae–2024-0023 / https://doi.org/10.35218/rae–2024-0023
Title: ZETGENERATION – SMILE, EMPATHY, THERAPY. THE OPPORTUNITIES OF ART AND EDUCATION REGARDING DEPRESSION AMONG GENERATION Z PREADOLESCENTS
Author(s): Cezara Ștefania Sava Fantu
Affiliation(s): Candidate Doctoral, “George Enescu” National University of Arts, ”Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iaşi, România
Abstract: Concurrent global events such as political changes, natural disasters, climatic changes, protests, wars, and pandemics are factors that help with defining a generation. What are the characteristics of Generation Z and what are the problems its members face? Preadolescence is a period during which individuals strongly feel the need to reflect deeply on what is happening to them. Several questions arise: “Who am I? Am I a normal person? Am I a competent person? Am I worthy of being loved?”; “How do I manage my emotions (e.g. fear, anger, and sadness)?”. Anxiety and depression disorders are two of the most common issues that arise during adolescence. The project ZETgeneration - Smile, Empathy, Therapy aims to facilitate access to culture for generation Z preadolescents affected by depression disorders, with the help of art and therapy. This is achieved through four contemporary art productions based on interviews and questionnaires conducted with 300 children from Iași. This article, an interdisciplinary perspective between art, education and mental health, explores how cinema, theater, and art therapy can prevent depression and encourage conversations between adults and children on topics related to mental health.
Key words: depression, preadolescence, generation Z, performance, Iași
