?I believe that incorporating theater into the classroom (acting, improvisation, characterization, and pantomime) is a tremendously effective vehicle to stimulate student original thinking, fluency, risk-training, problem-solving, and communication skills. It can help students understand and retain information and involves them both physcially and emotionally.?
Joel Gori has a bachelor of fine arts degree in acting from Daemon College, did his graduate work in creative drama at Penn State University, and studied movement theater under American mime master Tony Montanaro. In 1978 he founded the Metamorphosis Performing Company and as its artistic director creates theater for young audiences dealing with life issues: child abuse, bullying, drugs, communication. His solo programs physicalize literature. He is an adjunct theater professor for Bucknell University and has participated in the PA Arts Curriculum Summit Committee, a group that has developed curriculum for the teaching of the arts in PA schools. He has been a rostered artist with the PA Council on the Arts for more than 18 years and through this arts-in-education program has performed and conducted workshops for thousands of young audiences. He is also the founder and Producing Artistic Director of the Reading Theater Project, a company dedicated to new work.
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