A guide for Interdisciplinary Service Learning

Courses of interpretation mention viola and Voice I: perception (section 3), at School of Theater.

Careers: Musical Interpretation with mention in viola and Acting.

Teaching team: Penelope Ann Knuth and Gala Fernández.

Course level: Acting 1st semester

ODS addressed in the experience: 3, 4, and 10.

Brief description of the experience:

This is a theoretical and practical collaboration between theater and musical interpretation. The dialogue happens among the teaching staff, theater students and Gonzalo Hernandez (main instrumentalist). Theater students create stories for children, which are shared with Gonzalo and Penelope. A musical show is created with a shared direction, integrating musical, dramatic and performative approaches, resulting in a musicalized story for blind children of the Hellen Keller school.

Social challenge met: Access to music for blind children.

Service or product co-built with the community: Musicalized story.

Since the social unrest, when we attended on-site classes, all students have developed technology skills that most of them didn’t have before, nor did they care about, and also the changes in the cultural world, the audience capacity in potential concerts, and I insist that performance students have to be much more versatile with their knowledge and very creative in inventing fields of work, but always my main interest in this type of collaboration with the community and with the faculty’s schools is that it is very beneficial for students both academically and emotionally.

Learning results achieved: Performance, public confidence,

Institutions/community partners involved: Hellen Keller school.

pedagogical skills on instruments, abilities with technology, insertion skills in the labor market, dialogues between disciplines of the arts.

Dialogue between theater and music, remote and on-site work. Assessment/reflection strategies used: