POETRY SPEAKS-POEMS 2 STAGE, is a highly educational and innovative arts education programme that showcases 2 to 3 different arts forms: Poetry, Music and Movement into a single performance. Poems written by renowned poets such as Helen Steiner Rice and local poets like Cyril Wong which offer positive messages, talks about friendship, harmony, don’t quit, climb till your dreams come true, ambition and also love will be selected as the basis for the poetry interpretation through movements and music with live musicians and dancers and will weaved into a colourful and delightful performance. During the student interactive sessions, students will be invited to read the poems as dancers and musicians perform and at the same time they will be given an opportunity to interpret one of their favourite poems from the list through movements with the dancers supported by live music. The performance concept is focused on the effect of combining and promoting the potential power of performing arts and poetry.
The performance concept is focused on the effect of combining and promoting the potential power of performing arts and poetry.
– LEARNING OBJECTIVES –
1. To give an overview of various poems through performance poetry.
2. To encourage students to appreciate poetry.
3. To create an interest in literature through poems and poetry performance.
4. To showcase poems of local poets through performance.
– DETAILS –
Target Audience: Pri-Upper / Sec – Lower / Sec – Upper / JC/CI
Language: English
Duration: 30 mins
No.of Performers/Presenters: 01/03
– COST –
Total cost of the program: S$1650