Combined Arts Workshop: Management of a Multidisciplinary Arts Project

Abstract

This essay intends to demonstrate the significance of the “Combined Arts Workshops” developing pluridisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects, together with teachers of several artistic areas in creating projects with their students, on the one hand to promote shows of increased artistic quality, and on the other hand to develop differentiated skills within the students, throughout the various artistic ways of expression, in the creation and performance of music, theatre, dance and plastic arts. These “Workshops” also promote knowledge acquisition of other performance staging techniques, as creation of texts and librettos, production, sound design, lighting, set design and wardrobe.
It is in like manner intended to show the importance of teachers’ project management, in bringing their students to think and debate meaningful themes such as: Demands of the public today; Innovative performances; Musical theatre or Operetta linking performing arts; Team work; Artistic project management; The significance of public performance; Self-evaluation and project evaluation by all involved. In this article we present some ideas based on our experience in the performances created, produced and carried out over the last two years (2009 and 2010) by Musical Education Degree1 and Master’s Degree2
students, whose head teacher authors this article.