Abstract
Religious buildings worldwide, including temples in Taiwan, have utilized religious legends, myths, and classical literature to teach people in an expression of art, culture, and humanity. With globalization, people have gradually forgotten the art, education, and entertainment contexts of temples. This study adopted that the temple as a museum and explored whether a teaching activity that involves public drama performance can facilitate people’s understanding of diverse cultures in temples. Using a 3 days theatre workshop for children that played the stories from the painting on the walls in the temple, and collecting the oral history stories from the community and made it as a story theatre played by professional actors, and then combined these two types of performances as a program in front of the temple. The results indicated that incorporating the stories from the temple into the workshop as a drama performance could help children and the community gain a further understanding of temple decorations and arts. Moreover, professional actors playing with children could be as a model learning for children and enable the audience to experience the culture contexts and diverse values of temples, to resee the beauty of the temples with new vision.
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Kuo LingChun, University of Tainan, Taiwan
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Conference: BAMC2023
Stream: Cultural Studies
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LingChun K. (2023) Resee the Beauty of the Temples: A Case Study on Performance in Front of Temple by a Children’s Theatre Workshop Combined an Oral History Story Theatre as an Example ISSN: 2435-9475 – The Barcelona Conference on Arts, Media & Culture 2023: Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-9475.2023.21
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-9475.2023.21
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