Jeux Dramatiques

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The Jeux Dramatiques , expressive games based on experience, are an educationally oriented theater method that dispenses with language in the intensive phase.

origin

Heidi Frei, co-founder of the Jeux Dramatiques

The French educator Léon Chancerel explained in his book “Jeux Dramatiques dans l'Education” in 1936: The Jeux Dramatiques are theater games that express feelings and experiences through movement and gestures. Chancerel originally created this method for children and young people and was inspired by the ideas of the Russian theater educator Konstantin Sergejewitsch Stanislawski . The Swiss theater pedagogue Heidi Frei further developed the method and applied it to work with adults.

In 1972 the "Swiss Working Group on Expression Games" was founded. Authorized by Heidi Frei, the method also came to Germany from 1973. The German "Working Group Expression Game from Experience eV" has existed since 1985. The Jeux Dramatiques came to Austria in 1988 through Marion Seidl-Hofbauer and established themselves in adult education, in schools, kindergartens, public institutions and institutions for people with disabilities. The registered association of the Jeux Dramatiques Austria working group has existed since 2006.

background

The game of expression is committed to the human image of humanistic psychology , which sees the human being as a holistic being in autonomy and self-responsibility. Among other things, this approach assumes that identification with roles is a basic human need. Forms of performing role play existed as early as our early history.

The method

The Jeux Dramatiques are a theater method that dispenses with language in the intensive phase and works with engaging and deepening oneself, one's actions and work. In acting together, the players experience understanding for themselves, acceptance and tolerance . Inner experience can be expressed in a playful way through movement and gestures . The Jeux Dramatiques are an alternative to classical theater. The game enables people of all ages to experience a playful process on a topic or text. You will be linguistically supported or accompanied by a leader for Jeux Dramatiques.

The game idea

Pictures, texts, picture books, stories, a “group theme”, music, materials such as B. stones, shells ... things that stimulate people to debate.

The game preparation

In preparation for the game, the players themselves choose their role from the game idea. They dress up and design their play areas. In a ritual by the game master with the question “you are and you want”, the players articulate their game ideas. Game requests that promise conflict are discussed and clarified.

The game

The game begins with the strike of the gong. The players play according to their current feelings and experiences in the chosen role. They don't need to talk and develop their role out of the inner dynamic. The game develops as free improvisation. Each role opens up different levels of experience for the players. By leaving out the language, a new way of communicating with one another can be experienced. Space is created in which one's own feelings and needs are expressed, development processes are initiated and the imagination is stimulated. Empathy and self-awareness are expanded by slipping into new, unfamiliar roles. In the protected space that the rules of the game offer, one's own sensitivities can be consciously experienced and experienced. In the process, personal, technical and social skills develop. The game can be accompanied by music or spoken by the game master. She / he reads the text or tells what he / she observes and follows the course of the game. The game ends when you hit the gong.

After the game

After a game of expression, the desire to share in words is often great. In the follow-up discussion there is the opportunity to exchange ideas in the group, to report on experiences or to clarify conflicts that have arisen in the game.

The method creates specific free spaces in the group that allow the individual players to:

to develop your own creative parts.
to experience yourself in different roles you have chosen yourself.
taking social actions and bearing their consequences.
To be able to allow feelings.
to take in an impulse, to develop one's own approach, to try it out and then to reflect.
simply being allowed to be without pressure to perform.
Experiencing limits and trying out relationships without endangering yourself.
to learn through the solutions sought by the other players.
to find his place in the respective group structure better.

Target groups and fields of work

In principle, working with the Jeux Dramatiques method is suitable for every age group, children, school children, young people, adults, older people, people with disabilities. The Jeux Dramatiques have already found wide acceptance in education, art and therapy and are used in various key areas. For example kindergarten, school and after-school care center, family and leisure education, training and further education for social professions, adult education and self-awareness, retirement homes, leisure activities for the elderly, addiction prevention and art.

education

The training to become a recognized leader for Jeux Dramatiques takes place alongside the job for specialists in social and / or educational as well as therapeutic or artistic professions. It is offered in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The experience and self-awareness is emphasized . The end of the training (in Austria and Germany) is a written work according to the criteria of the Austrian and German working groups for Jeux Dramatiques and a public colloquium discussion .

Contents:

Basic principles and structures
Game types, e.g. B. Entry games, games on text (fairy tales, prose, picture books, poems, biblical topics), games on music and pictures, free games
Developing offers for educational and therapeutic practice
Target group-oriented structures
Own instructions with didactic and methodological reflection
Leadership skills
Group pedagogy
Application of the method in groups and processing of practical experience
Target group and topic-oriented specialization (e.g. in kindergarten, school, in facilities for youth work, in curative and special education or in religious education)

literature

Working group Jeux Dramatiques: expressive game from experience 1 Zytglogge,. . . . 1984. ISBN 978-3-7296-0184-0
Heidi Frei: Expression game from the experience 2 Zytglogge,. . . . 1990. ISBN 978-3-7296-0341-7
Marion Seidl-Hofbauer: Jeux Dramatiques in elementary school - social learning through the expressive game Brigg,. . . . 2009. ISBN 978-3-87101-329-4
Gabriele Weiss: When the red cats dance ... Jeux Dramatiques for social and curative education professions Lambertus, Freiburg 1999. ISBN 3-7841-1139-4
Veronika Hafner and Christine Pranter (eds.): Gong - the game begins! Jeux Dramatiques expressive game from experience, Bozen 2006