2024年07月14日
14th July 2024
这期成长营在浙江省衢州市龙游县溪口镇，来自浙江各地二十多名乡村教师和校长们汇集于这个小镇。我主要负责其中主题为“教育者生命力”的戏剧工作坊。
This camp was held in Xikou Town, Longyou County, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, where more than 20 rural teachers and headmasters from all over Zhejiang Province gathered. I was mainly responsible for the theatre workshop on the theme of "Educator's Vitality".
从接到这个命题，我就在思考，什么是教育者的生命力？尽管“教师是人类灵魂的工程师”深入人心，教师一直是一个光荣且受尊敬爱戴的职业。但现实中很多老师的精神状态、心理健康、身体机能等都不理想，工作太忙太累，教学之外的任务繁多，心理压力超负荷……甚至还有一些老师并不热爱教育事业，仅仅是当成一份赚钱糊口的工作，对儿童不亲近不喜爱，结果就是自己痛苦，还影响对儿童的教育。那么如何改变这些问题，如何让老师们可以有健康的心理和强健的身体，如何让老师们对自己看似“重复”的日常工作发现意义和价值，这是我认为让教育者拥有生命力的关键。
From the time I received this proposition, I have been thinking about what is the life force of an educator. Although "teachers are the engineers of human souls" is deeply rooted in people's minds, and teaching has always been an honourable and respected profession, the reality is that many teachers' mental state, mental health and physical functions are not satisfactory. But the reality is that many teachers' mental state, mental health, physical function are not ideal, too busy and too tired to work, teaching outside of the many tasks, psychological pressure overload ...... There are even some teachers do not love the cause of education, just as a job to make money to make ends meet, not close to the children do not love, the result is their own pain, but also affect the education of children. It also affects the education of children. So how to change these problems, how to let teachers have a healthy mind and strong body, how to let teachers find meaning and value in their seemingly "repetitive" daily work, this is what I think is the key to make educators have vitality.
我为这次工作坊设计了相当有难度的课程内容，对我自己也是挑战，最终的结果于我也是未知，需要我和老师们一起在过程中共创。工作坊以荒诞派戏剧《等待戈多》为素材，以教育戏剧为方法，带没有戏剧经验的老师们在一天的时间里，通过一系列有趣的游戏和练习，感知自己的身体和空间，建立与伙伴的默契。环环相扣，层层叠加，最终导向小组共创和彼此链接。我特别加大了肢体的部分，让老师们的身体动起来，调动身心的活力，为戏剧创作打好基础。
I have designed quite a challenging programme content for this workshop, which is a challenge for myself, and the final result is unknown to me, and needs to be co-created by me and the teachers together in the process. Based on the absurdist play "Waiting for Godot" and using educational theatre as a methodology, the workshop took teachers with no theatre experience through a series of interesting games and exercises in one day, to perceive their own body and space, and to establish a tacit understanding with their partners. The rings are interlocked and layered, ultimately leading to group co-creation and linking with each other. I have especially increased the physical part, so that the teachers can move their bodies, mobilise their minds and bodies, and lay a good foundation for theatre creation.
工作坊包括四个板块：内观自我、时间与空间、重复与意义、等待与希望。斯民小学的安可在经历之后，这样总结四个板块的内容：
内观自我——肢体、专注和打开自我
时间与空间——关注群体，建立团体默契
重复与意义——既然重复着乏味，那一定有其存在的意义。
等待与希望——共创的力量，共同寻找希望，寻找“等待什么”，共同完善剧本，共同排演，戈多是谁？没有标准答案，正如人生，没有标准答案。
The workshop consisted of four panels: Looking Inward at the Self, Time and Space, Repetition and Meaning, and Waiting and Hoping. After her experience, Anke from Smin Primary School summarised the four panels in this way:
Inner Self - physicality, focus and opening up the self
Time and Space - focusing on the group and building group understanding
Repetition and Meaning - Since repetition is boring, there must be a meaning to it.
Waiting and hope - the power of co-creation, searching for hope, searching for "what to wait for", perfecting the script together, rehearsing together, who is Godot? There is no standard answer, just as there is no standard answer in life.
内观自我板块主要是通过戏剧游戏，逐步激活和开发老师们的肢体表达、专注力、观察力等，尤其是让老师们能够放松下来。大多数成年人包括老师都很紧张，如果这样，很容易将这种紧张传递给学生。正如戏剧里，先能够放松下来，才能够爆发，生活中也需要能放松下来，才能有热情。
The Inner Self focuses on the gradual activation and development of teachers' physical expression, concentration, observation, etc. through theatre games, especially to enable them to relax. Most adults, including teachers, are very tense, and if this is the case, it is easy to transfer this tension to the students. Just as in theatre, one needs to be able to relax before one can explode, one needs to be able to relax before one can be enthusiastic in life.
时间与空间板块以群体性游戏和活动，引导老师们感受空间的存在和变化，同时建立起群体的默契和联结。在工作坊的前一天，我们参观了溪口镇的泥美术馆，在那里正展出很多人物摄影作品，于是我拍了一些，拿到工作坊作为即兴表演部分的练习素材。老师们自行走到空间里，翻开反扣在地面上的照片，揣摩照片上的人物，然后让自己成为这个人物角色，并与空间里的其他角色产生即兴互动和情节发展。
The Time and Space uses group games and activities to guide the teachers to feel the existence and change of space, and at the same time to build up the tacit understanding and connection of the group. The day before the workshop, we visited the Mud Art Museum in Xikou Town, where many photographs of people were on display, so I took some of them and brought them to the workshop as practice material for the improvisation part. Teachers went out into the space on their own, turned over the photographs that were fastened to the floor and tried to figure out the characters in the photographs, and then made themselves into the characters and improvised interactions and plot developments with the other characters in the space.
重复与意义板块有一个前置任务，在前一天晚上，老师们去小镇上，以“重复”为主题，寻找一个物件，并以这个物件设计一系列重复动作。老师们将物件带到工作坊，并展示了自己设计的重复动作，大家一起决定这个重复动作是否可以。继而，我向大家提出两个问题：重复的事情是否有意义？如何让重复的事情具有意义？设计这个板块的出发点是老师们平时有很多重复性工作，比如讲课、批改作业等。同时，等待往往也是由重复性动作组成。
The Repetition and Meaning had a pre-task, where the teachers went to a small town the night before, found an object and designed a series of repetitions using that object, based on the theme of repetition. Teachers brought the object to the workshop and presented the repetitions they had designed, and together we decided if the repetitions were OK. Following this, I asked the group two questions: Does the repetition have meaning? How can we make repetition meaningful? The starting point for designing this board was that teachers usually have a lot of repetitive tasks, such as lecturing and correcting homework. Also, waiting often consists of repetitive actions.
接下来就来到最重要的板块，即等待与希望。这个板块里，老师们在纸上写下自己在等待什么，并思考等待与希望的关系是什么？当面对不确定性甚至绝望时，你还会等待吗？随后，老师们分成四组，每一组讨论确定一个等待对象，设定不同的角色，创作关于等待的对话，并以肢体为主要表现形式，以“等待”为主题创作一个戏剧作品。
Next comes the most important, Waiting and Hope. In this panel, teachers write down on paper what they are waiting for and think about what is the relationship between waiting and hope? When faced with uncertainty or even despair, do you still wait? Afterwards, the teachers were divided into four groups, and each group discussed and identified an object of waiting, set up different roles, created dialogues about waiting, and used the body as the main form of expression to create a theatre piece based on the theme of "waiting".
此时，距离傍晚的演出还有两个小时，老师们在各自小组开始了讨论与准备。致朴的老师们观察到一点，我没有给各个小组指定组长或导演。这也是我在平时学校里戏剧课上的做法，如果有了组长或导演，创作进度当然会更快，但是，我希望老师们在无领导的小组中，可以学得团队合作，尤其是在处理团队遇到的问题中。
At this point, with two hours to go before the evening performance, the teachers began discussions and preparations in their groups. One thing that the teachers observed was that I did not assign group leaders or directors to each group. This is what I usually do in my drama classes at school, and of course the creative process would be faster if there was a leader or director, but I hope that in a leaderless group, teachers can learn to work together as a team, especially in dealing with the problems that the team encounters.
每个小组都遇到了一些问题，我与老师们一起讨论，在尊重老师们想法和设计的前提下，给一些建议。戏剧作品的创作在这个过程中自然而然地发生，到傍晚，一切已然就绪。
很快，将近五点，老师们开始收拾道具准备出发。此时外面正在淅淅沥沥地下着雨，但是我们还是相信古渡口的那棵大树会给老师们带来不一般的能量。在到小镇的第一天，我看到了在溪口古渡的那棵大树，于是就决定把最终的舞台定在这里。大树笼罩头顶，大江在身边流过，还有什么比这更好的舞台。于是仍然原计划进行。
Each group encountered some problems, which I discussed with the teachers, giving some suggestions while respecting their ideas and designs. The creation of the theatre piece happened naturally in this process, and by the evening, everything was in place.
Soon, nearly five o'clock, the teachers began to pack up their props and get ready to go. It was raining outside at the moment, but we were still confident that the big tree at the old ferry crossing would give the teachers an unusual energy. On the first day in town, I saw the big tree at the old ferry at Xikou and decided to set the final stage there. With the tree looming overhead and the river flowing by, what could be a better stage. So the original plan went ahead.
天公作美，当我们在大树下开始准备时，雨竟然停了。午休的时候，老师们去小镇上贴了海报，邀请当地镇民们来看我们的演出。所以演出开始时，除了我们的老师们，还有一些镇民们来围观。戏剧就这样在小镇里自然地发生，这是这趟溪口镇之行最美好的回忆。
或许是大自然给了老师们不同的能量，四个剧团的老师们站在大树下的舞台上，展现出了跟在室内完全不同的样子。每个人都那么自信、自然，虽然之前没有过戏剧经验，但此时此刻他们就是戏剧演员。
The weather was kind, and as we started to prepare under the big tree, the rain surprisingly stopped. During the lunch break, the teachers went to the town and put up posters inviting the local townspeople to come and see our performance. So when the performance started, besides our teachers, there were also some townspeople who came to watch. The theatre just happened naturally in the town, and this was the best memory of the trip to Xikou Town.
Perhaps nature gave the teachers a different kind of energy, and the teachers of the four theatre groups stood on the stage under the big tree and showed a completely different look than they did indoors. Everyone was so confident and natural. Although they had no previous theatre experience, they were theatre actors at this moment.
演出相当成功，我们在短短一天里创作出了一个属于自己的戏剧作品《在溪口镇等待戈多》，演绎了四个关于等待的故事，老师们完成了原本看来不可能的目标。
在复盘的时候，老师们给出了自己的感受。
The performance was quite successful, we created a theatre piece of our own in just one day, Waiting for Godot in Creektown, interpreting four stories about waiting, and the teachers accomplished what otherwise seemed impossible.
At the review, the teachers gave their feelings.
“一整天很快乐，治愈，体验不同的人生，很开心。”
“体验不同的人生，戏如人生，人生如戏。我们的戏来源于我们生活。联系我们自己的实际，在这场戏里我们在等什么？”
“有代入感，能理解人物是什么心情，待在这里和离开之间矛盾的心理。最难的是戏里的默契，同伴之间合作的默契，没到最后一刻没确定好自己要演什么。”
“最大的感受是共创。”
“天时地利人和！天时——表演时不下雨了，地利——留守儿童主题，人和——同频，感受到我是一个团队中的人。”
“在与大家同频的同时，又要有自己的个性，尽可能在团队中表达自己独有的东西。”
“排练时不认真，但当占到舞台上就不得不认真起来，一定要倒逼自己一把，平时的教学也一样。”
“突破了一把，今天为i做e，突破了自己。平时看小孩动物爬行很轻松，今天觉得很有难度。”
“本来想演一棵树，默默在那看别人。但是过程却不断变化，主动、积极去参与，这是最大的收获。”
“专注当下，在很短的时间内专注创作，感受自己、感受空间、伙伴。不用想明天后天要做哪些事。”
“更多是治愈内心，能够通过戏剧去同理别人。”
“被大家感动，大家都很认真。”
“紧凑充实，有挑战。伙伴的碰撞，每一个细节不断揣摩，在我们都不确定的时候，一个人提出想法后被否定，不断揣摩。从未有过的培训，全新的感受。”
“昨天准备时，担心等待戈多会不会有点难，今天演完后会去想人生本身就是荒诞的。这样一群人聚在一起的时候，可以去创造很多不一样的东西，之前都不觉得可以去创造一台戏剧，这增强了自己在做的事情的信心。今天的主题是力量，这个力量是过程中大家给到我的。”
“今天之前没有上台表演的经验，两者有很大的区别，之前更多的是模仿，关注到的是动作跳的到不到位，模仿的像不像，今天更多的是创造，之前是完成度，今天是过程。能够从那么多不同的东西中找到共性，感叹大家点子多，过程中很快乐。”
“在大家面前爬，是放飞自我的感觉。”
“很多部分都是在挑战自我，以前从来不会做。真正体会到创作的魅力和趣味，很享受，开心，也像刚刚老师说的，找到了自我。很期待以后能够去融入到团队中体验这样的活动。”
“感觉很开心，平时在学校里没有这么嘻嘻哈哈的，可以放声大笑，大家都很严肃，在这里跟大家在一起很开心。”
“我觉得太难了，今天对我而言是很大的挑战，要磨合很多次才让自己能够爆发，是很大地突破舒适圈，感谢伙伴的支持。”
“好想上台演，很享受在里面的感觉，一句话就是一天都在练习怎么样在未知和不确定，很多设想之外迎接惊喜的过程。”
“今天缪老师给了大家挑战性的任务，当慢慢收住不安，每个人自己都会收获到自己的东西，觉得大家都太棒了。被吸引感染和震撼到了。”
“看见了肢体带来的建立关系和力量，今天更真实的看见，非常的感动。”
“特别妙！每个人都在用不同的方式去触碰彼此，用肢体、言语、共同创作，今天是很饱满的一天，看到了有很多东西在生长，很喜悦。”
"The whole day was happy, healing, and it was great to experience a different life."
"Experiencing a different life, theatre is like life, life is like theatre. Our theatre comes from our life. Connecting to our own reality, what are we waiting for in this play?"
"Having a sense of immersion, being able to understand what the characters are feeling, the ambivalence between staying here and leaving. The hardest thing was the tacit understanding in the play, the tacit understanding of the co-operation between the companions, not being sure what you are going to play until the last moment."
"The greatest feeling is co-creation."
"Timing! Timing - it wasn't raining at the time of the performance, location - the theme of the children left behind, and harmony - being on the same frequency and feeling like I was on a team."
"Being on the same frequency as everyone else while having your own personality and expressing something unique to you as much as possible in the group."
"Not taking it seriously in rehearsals, but when occupying the stage you have to take it seriously, make sure you push yourself back a bit, same with teaching in general."
"Breaking through a handful of times, did e for i today and broke through. Usually it's easy to watch kids animals crawl, today I found it challenging."
"Was going to play a tree and be there silently watching others. But the process kept changing and being proactive and active in it was the biggest reward."
"Focusing on the moment, focusing on creating in a very short period of time, feeling yourself, feeling the space, your partner. Not having to think about what you're going to do tomorrow and the day after."
"More healing within, being able to empathise with others through theatre."
"Being touched by everyone, everyone is very serious."
"Compact and fulfilling, challenging. The collision of partners, the constant speculation on every detail, the constant speculation on one person presenting an idea and then having it rejected when we were all unsure. Training like never before, a whole new feeling."
"When I was preparing yesterday, I was worried that waiting for Godot would be a bit difficult, and after today's performance I will think about the absurdity of life itself. When a group of people get together like this, they can go on to create a lot of different things, I didn't even think it was possible to go on to create a theatre before, and this has boosted my confidence in what I'm doing. Today's theme is strength, and that strength is what the process has given me from everyone."
"I had no experience of performing on stage before today, there is a big difference between the two, before it was more about imitation, focusing on whether the movement was jumping in place or not, imitating like it, today was more about creating, before it was about completion, today it was about the process. Being able to find commonalities in so many different things, marvelling at how many ideas people have, the process is a joy."
"Climbing in front of everyone is what it feels like to let go."
"A lot of the parts were challenging myself in ways I never would have done before. Really appreciated the charm and fun of creating, enjoyed it, had fun, and like the teacher just said, found myself. I'm looking forward to going and integrating into a team to experience an activity like this in the future."
"It feels very happy, usually at school I don't have such a cheeky laugh, I can let it out, everyone is so serious, it's great to be here with everyone."
"I think it's too hard, today was a big challenge for me, had to grind it out many times before I was able to break out, was a big break out of my comfort zone, thanks to the support of my mates."
"So want to go on stage to act, very enjoy the feeling of being in it, in a word, a day is practising how to meet the process of surprise in the unknown and uncertain, a lot of envisioning outside."
"Today Mr Miu gave everyone challenging tasks, when slowly collecting the uneasiness, everyone gained something on their own and felt everyone was fantastic. Was attracted infected and blown away."
"Saw the relationship building and power that comes from being physical and was very moved to see it more real today."
"Particularly wonderful! Everyone is touching each other in different ways, physically, verbally, co-creatively, and today was a very full day of joy to see how much is growing."
实际上，今天对我自己来说也是很多挑战。在最开始也不确定会有什么过程和结果，过程中一起共创大家都不知道会发生什么。当戏剧老师的好处就在于自己在也能收获很多，这是戏剧老师的幸福。
这一次的戏剧工作坊，不为老师们的教学，只为老师们自身的浸润和成长。只有老师们自己幸福快乐和健康成长，才能带给孩子最好的教育。
In fact, today was a lot of challenges for myself. At the beginning, I wasn't sure what the process and outcome would be, and during the process of co-creating together we didn't know what would happen. The good thing about being a theatre teacher is that you can gain a lot from it, which is the happiness of a theatre teacher.
This workshop is not for the teachers' teaching, but only for their own immersion and growth. Only when the teachers themselves are happy and healthy can they bring the best education to the children.
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
可子（周苌小学）：
戏剧工作坊一日营圆满结束！一天时间，从构思、编写、排练到最后出品戏剧，简直在自我舒适区的边缘疯狂试探！编排的过程中，不断地和我们fourD伙伴产生新灵感、新想法，也在剧情安排和意义设置上遇到重大瓶颈。但是，我们依旧积极地头脑风暴并努力克服。最后能呈现出较为完整的作品，是早上的我不敢想象的！我来培训的目标一直很明确，就是想要突破自身局限，从不同维度观察美育。经过今天的活动，感觉已实现一半。
Kezi (Zhoujan Primary School):
The Drama Workshop One Day Camp has come to a successful conclusion! One day of conceptualising, writing, rehearsing and finally producing a play was a frantic trial and error on the edge of our comfort zones! During the rehearsal process, we kept on generating new inspirations and ideas with our fourD partners, and also encountered major bottlenecks in terms of plotting and meaning setting. However, we continued to brainstorm and work hard to overcome them. In the end, we were able to produce a more complete piece of work than I could have imagined in the morning! My goal in coming to this training has always been clear: I wanted to break through my own limitations and look at aesthetic education from a different perspective. After today's activity, I feel that half of it has been achieved.
张婧（致朴）：
一整天的戏剧工作坊，通过戏剧游戏和练习大家内观自我，体会身体力量和注意力，感知空间和时间，逐步放松身体、打开心灵，在创作中探讨重复与意义、等待与希望，找到内在探寻的问题，并进行演绎。最终老师们在傍晚公演了自己创作的戏剧作品《在溪口镇等待戈多》。缪斌老师说，打破记录仅用一天时间就带领完成戏剧创作，得益于大家的开放、认真和创造力，让他也挑战了自我。
Zhang Jing (Zhipu):
A full day of theatre workshop, through theatre games and exercises everyone looked inward at themselves, experienced body strength and attention, perceived space and time, gradually relaxed their bodies and opened their minds, explored repetition and meaning, waiting and hope in their creations, and found questions of inner searching and interpreted them. Finally, the teachers performed their own theatre piece "Waiting for Godot in Xikou Town" in the evening. Teacher Mu Bin said that breaking the record of leading the completion of the play in just one day was due to the openness, seriousness and creativity of the group, which allowed him to challenge himself as well.
黄巧萍（斯民小学）：
今天是【等待戈多】的一天，从上午的打开自己，到下午的戏剧共创，再到傍晚渡口的展演，真的是一种全新的自我突破！就像复盘时说的，演戏看着容易，等到自己上了真是难的很！好在有缪老师的指导，还有非常给力的Four D的小伙伴们，我们成功的完成了演出[庆祝]戏剧真是很奇妙的一种教育方式，期待明天……
Huang Qiaoping (Simin Primary School):
Today was a day of [Waiting for Godot], from opening ourselves up in the morning, to co-creation of theatre in the afternoon, to the exhibition in the ferry in the evening, it was really a new kind of self-breakthrough! As I said during the review, acting is easy to watch, but it's really hard to wait until you're on it! Luckily, with Mr Miu's guidance and the very helpful Four D's, we successfully completed the performance [celebration] Theatre is really a wonderful way of education, looking forward to tomorrow ......
小哼（周苌小学）：
从2023年12月参加桐浦小学戏剧教育工作坊到2024年4月成都天府七中戏剧教育跟岗，从初识教育戏剧到看见戏剧中的生活联系，如果说还有遗憾，那就是没有亲身经历一出戏的产生，今天弥补了！非常过瘾！
道具 剧本 肢体 台词
时间与空间 重复与意义 等待与希望
团队中的每一个人都是寻宝者，捕捉迸发出的各种可能。
一天的时间，我们完成了一件“伟大”的事。“伟大”在于这件事不能被计划，最后呈现的样子出乎每个人的意料，“意外”和“即兴”成就了它——《在溪口镇等待戈多》之【选择】。
Little Hum (Zhoujan Primary School):
From attending the Tongpu Primary School Drama Education Workshop in December 2023 to the Drama Education shadowing in Chengdu's Tianfu 7 Middle School in April 2024, I made up for it today by not experiencing the production of a play first hand, if there was any regret at all, from my first acquaintance with educational theatre to seeing the connections to life in theatre! It was very enjoyable!
Props, Script, Body, Lines
Time and space Repetition and meaning Waiting and hoping
Each member of the team is a treasure hunter, capturing possibilities as they emerge.
In one day, we've done something "great". "The greatness lies in the fact that it couldn't be planned, and the final appearance was beyond everyone's expectation, made possible by "accident" and "improvisation"... -Waiting for Godot at the Creek Crossing" [Choice].