Stage performance in the early years
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The curtain opens, music fills the room, stage lights shine and the children’s happy smiles fill the stage. To the audience, that moment often feels like magic.
At Fortune Kindergarten, the process that brings the children and their teachers to that magical moment is, in itself, a meaningful journey, filled with learning and play and guided by the same values that we share in everything we do — cooperation, respect, responsibility, creativity, independence, appreciation, courage, confidence and critical thinking. All of these must come into play.
Under the teacher’s careful planning and care, the children begin learning parts of their stage performance as early as September or October.
For one thing, the physical skills and coordination required for putting on a good show can never be mastered all in the last three weeks before the show. So some of the exercise moves we are practicing every morning at arrival time will always find their place in the Christmas dance routine.
The children’s monthly assemblies, starting in September, give us all plenty of chances to see and understand what a performance would look and feel like. So, when it’s time to be up on stage at Christmas, the kids know what to expect.
The teachers care for every part of the process and work together to select and coordinate the best solutions for a good end result: picking a concert theme, choosing costumes, coordinating songs and performances, designing and decorating the stage, preparing tickets and invitations, coordinating the program and the order of performances, and changing costumes back stage. All of these steps are taken together, with responsibility and care for the finest details.
The dress rehearsals and the actual day of the show are so busy! But we must first think about the children’s mood and enjoyment, their safety, as well as their confidence and cooperation on stage and behind the curtains.
As they put on their costumes, go through hair and make-up, travel to the concert venue and anxiously await their turn, our children thoroughly enjoy the process and that amazing moment on stage. Even when there are tears, having the courage to face stage fright and try their best is a valuable lesson to learn.
Coordinating the MC’s speeches and boldly giving children the chance to run the show, taking a step back and letting the kids really shine and take ownership of their own performance is not easy. But when the kids are given this responsibility, they rise up to it and enjoy everyone’s true appreciation.
Behind it all, things must be kept in order and the whole logistics of this yearly winter production must fall into place. This includes caring for the kids’ safety, keeping their belongings in order, making sure our guests are comfortable, dressing up and then cleaning up the stage and foyer, safely traveling to and from the venue, and putting things away without losing or damaging items. The team does it all, putting values into action and working together like “magic.”
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