On the Winter Solstice, the most meaningful thing is to accompany your children to watch the Canadian interactive musical "You Are the Performer". I originally bought the evening show, but after counting the number of people, I found that there were not enough tickets, so I made a replacement ticket. Unexpectedly, I made a mistake and bought an afternoon ticket. I could only make a mistake and buy another afternoon ticket. I will take a child first. Go watch it, and let your aunt take other children to watch the show in the evening. I originally thought it was a pure companionship between parents and children, but I was pleasantly surprised to encounter a musical that had no language barriers or age differences and was HIGH and the audience was blown away. In the ocean of extremely rhythmic music, every cell in my body was stimulated, making me sing, dance and get high involuntarily, and I learned a lot from it.
"You Are the Performer" is a super cool parent-child drama popular in North America. The biggest highlight is that it breaks the traditional model of performing on stage and watching off the stage, allowing every audience to become a performer. In this 70-minute fully interactive performance, each seat was placed with a bag, each bag containing three instruments: a pair of specially made wooden safety drumsticks, a colored sound pipe and a tambourine . The two artists prepared an art education guide interactive activity. They used simple and authentic English to popularize percussion knowledge, guess small percussion instruments, introduce percussion in life, show the percussion characteristics of different countries and regions, and use their own The body acts as an instrument to perform a percussion rhythm, etc., leading the audience to change different percussion instruments in different scenes, dance together, dance the instruments in their hands, and enter the rhythmic sound of vocal pipe percussion and drum music. The magical world of music that makes people excited and happy.
Traditional children’s dramas generally have attractive storylines, but most of them tell the stories from the perspective of children. Many adults no longer have the "innocent heart", so that most parents have no regard for children. I don’t have too many expectations for the show, it’s purely for parent-child companionship. I also brought a book with me, thinking that if it was not good to watch, the children would watch the drama while I would read the book. But this drama uses the uninterrupted musicality of the audience and relies on the unparalleled live atmosphere to instantly ignite the large theater with thousands of people. Music is indeed an artifact that transcends age, nationality, and gender, and can easily reduce the barriers between strangers and bring them closer together. , during the performance, the dad sitting in the front seat held his child and showed us an extremely clear and clean smile, twisting his body happily, making the adults and children around him giggle.
Although I have been learning mute English for so many years and have long since lost my English listening and speaking skills to Java, I was surprised to find that I understood the entire musical. The two artists used music games to quickly teach the children a large number of common words and basic sentences. During the interaction, they learned some common words that need to be used on the spot, such as left, right, up, down, hand, head, etc., as well as some simple common sentences such as you are amazing, so good, me too, etc. The children are now learning Now in use, the memory is particularly profound. Occasionally, there were some words that we couldn't respond to, and the two artists would make up for them in poor Chinese. They also made full use of live videos and gestures to teach all the essentials for participating in the interaction, achieving barrier-free communication throughout the audience.
When this show entered China and started touring in 2016, one of the most widely publicized points was: 4 types of musical instruments - in addition to the 3 live musical instruments, there is also a strange musical instrument, That's your body. If you have not experienced it on the spot, it is difficult to understand the essence of this sentence. Perhaps our nation has been burdened with too much suffering, too much repression, and too much inability to be ourselves. Our children have been indoctrinated with a lot of truths since childhood, given too many responsibilities, and trained in the mold of adult ideals. , so that we have a serious separation of mind and brain, separation of imagination and reality, and lose the connection with our own body feelings, let alone use the body to express feelings and emotions. Under the leadership of the two artists, although I did not stand up, I could deeply feel my body whether it was the movements of the percussion instruments or the actions of raising my hands, putting them down, turning left and right according to their instructions. It has a sense of rhythm and excitement, and changes in the body can indeed bring about changes in emotions immediately. The release of the body causes emotional relaxation, and the rhythm of the body brings about emotional excitement.
During these 70 minutes, I was cautious and serious at first, without any expectations.
But gradually, as I was being led, I was really able to let go of the trivial things in my life, let go of all the tangled emotions, and let go of the parental majesty that I usually have in front of my children. It was as if I was traveling back to my childhood in a time machine. I danced, beat, shouted and twisted to the music with the children around me. At that moment, I felt extremely close to the child. What he saw was not a mother who was usually nagging and controlling him, but a mother who was just like him, who could The same kind of people who laugh out loud, can ignore politeness, and can express their emotions truly. Being friends with children is not just about understanding these principles, nor is it just talking about them verbally, it is about actually experiencing, understanding, feeling happiness and sadness with them, and establishing a real emotional connection.
First, they are deeply infected by the enthusiasm and passion of the artists. Their heartfelt love for music still deeply affects the audience. From them, we can deeply feel that music is indeed life. Where there is sound, there is music, rhythm, and tone, which can be used to express feelings, express emotions, and communicate in dialogue. Through their rich body language and simple English words, they show an unparalleled sense of humor and let the audience They couldn't help laughing and were extremely happy.
The second is that children’s education should be taught through fun, so that knowing can be transformed into doing, so that doing can be repeated and improved continuously, making learning a pleasure rather than a burden. This requires teachers themselves to be Enjoying this process is not utilitarian learning in itself. During the process of watching this show, the children followed the artists on the field to play a variety of instruments. They not only exercised their hands-on ability, but also developed a sense of rhythm and music in percussion. More importantly, they understood at this moment that music can make people feel happy in this way, which invisibly cultivated their love for music.
The third is to have a deeper understanding of the investment of time and money. Time is indeed the most precious thing for each of us. You can see what you spend your time on and who you spend it on. Ranking of values ??in our minds. Investing time and money in self-growth and expanding experience is more valuable.
Taking this as a starting point, we are willing to give children more diverse exposure to art, so that they can appreciate the beauty of life and the richness of life in every special experience.