The Pandemic is Over. Now What?

I will never forget an experience from the time of online teaching. A student that was unable to attend the offline class, attended it through Tencent meeting. I noticed that she had a mask on, and I asked her: – “Are you alone at home?”. She said “Yes”. “Why do you wear the mask then?”…Read more »

Drama in the Curriculum, part 3 – Appreciation

In the last two articles I wrote about the new National Curriculum and the consequences it has for drama education in China. In this, the third and final part of my little trilogy about National Curriculum, let me talk about the third module – “appreciation” of theatre performance / drama (including opera), the topic that…Read more »

Drama Education is not Drama in Education

Long ago, I directed an American musical “Kiss Me Kate” in the US. In that time, I lived in Seattle, WA, in a family of my cousin, a middle-class American woman that was not connected to theatre in any sense. However, she was very excited about me directing this musical and she kept asking me…Read more »

It finally happened – Drama is in the Curriculum!

It is sometimes hard to be a foreigner in China, especially when the flow and share of information is concerned. I mean, I can cope with children pointing a finger at me with a terrified face, hiding behind mama and crying „waiguoren“ (“foreigner” in Chinese). I can only laugh when I see children that don’t…Read more »

Are the humans only machines for breathing, feeding, and walking?

After a short period of offline teaching, all the courses of the spring semester of the school year 2021-2022 are moved to online teaching again. It is already the third winter of online teaching. Vitomira Lončar, PhD professor, scientist and researcher at Xi’an Eurasia University contemplate on the present situation in education and the consequences…Read more »

I refuse to teach drama online!

The other day I was asked to teach drama online. I refused. I told the producer that I don’t want, and I cannot do it. I’ve been an actor whole my life. I experienced the power of acting for the first time when I was eight years old. In a school performance I played a…Read more »

Ukrainian children will not go to the theater this year!

To mark World Day of Theater for children and young people 2022. There’s been an assassination of the theater. A murder was carried out on the theater and its audience. A completely incomprehensible mind ordered that the theater building be attacked, that the theater be destroyed, and the people, the audience that had taken refuge…Read more »

The Seven Wonders of the World

Recently I came across a video shared by prof. dr. Ichak K. Adizes, world famous teacher of management who calls himself management therapist, and one of the most fascinating people of the modern world. I don’t know who originally produced that video, but it doesn’t really matter. This video came to me as a late…Read more »

上善若水 The highest good is like water

Greetings for the New Year 2022 The year 2021 came to its end. In these last days of the year, we usually sum up our achievements, results, good and bad things that happened to us and to our beloved, we contemplate about good or bad faith, we celebrate the end of the year and share…Read more »

Creating theatre performances from picture books

On Saturday, December 18, I participated in the online The 3rd Annual Conference of Chinese Picture Books Lecturers organized by Shenzhen ViVi Picture Book Culture Development Center. I was asked to talk about “How to create and direct a great drama together with kids based on an interesting picture book”. Here are the parts of…Read more »