Ends on 27 Feb 2011
The Peranakan Museum
Ramayana, the epic has been performed by many different cultures and interpreted in various ways. Students will see the world of Ramayana through the Performing Arts as they take part in our interactive dance tours and adjoining activities! Choose from Chinese Indian or Javanese performing arts for your students to experience and learn. Facilitators of the tours will focus on expressions and hand gestures which will make Ramayana come alive for students. Workshops are catered to different levels and are closely linked to essential skills.
TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS:
Am I a good ruler?
Students go on an interactive tour seeing Ramayana through Chinese Opera. Thereafter they engage in a debate about kingship and governance in Ramayana and then relate it to the ruling system they are familiar with.
White, black or grey?
Students experience Ramayana through Indian dance and learn about how characters are not completely good or bad. Facilitators will help students explore the concept of good and evil. Students will debate whether the characters are all completely good or completely evil.
To be or not to be?
Many decisions made in Ramayana could be considered as controversial. Students will learn about the many dilemmas faced by characters in Ramayana through a hands-on tour where they can handle Indonesian shadow puppets. Students then have to think creatively about alternative endings to the Ramayana. They will write a script and act it out for their classmates.
Skiffs: Analysing, Communicating, Observing.
Subjects: General paper, English, History, Theatre Studies.
$360 for a group of 20 students
Each workshop will last for 2 hours.