The west End Theatre
Theatre (or theater, if you like) is the branch of the performing arts defined as what “occurs when one or more persons, isolated in time and/or space, present themselves to another or others.” (Bernard Beckerman)
By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of the natural human tendency for storytelling. Since its inception, theatre has come to take on many different forms, utilizing speech, gesture, music, dance, and spectacle, combining the other performing arts, often as well as the visual arts, into a single artistic form.
The word derives from the Ancient Greek theatron meaning, “the seeing place.”
The West End Theatre at Tshwane events centre in Pretoria, South Africa, formerly known as the Piet van der Walt theatre, built in 1964 and currently being managed and revived by Magic Stunts is indeed a “seeing place”.
Since May of 2008, the management of the West End Theatre has been dedicating every Saturday to education through entertainment by hosting a junior entertainment school project, teaching kids from all walks of life to perform in various disciplines and giving them the opportunity to learn about the operation of a real theatre. The theatre has hosted workshops in dance, voice training, poetry, drama, fire dancing, percussion, stunt and movie set safety, technical rigging and sound engineering to name only a few.
Throughout the ages, the arts have always been closely linked to education. Entertaining subjects will always hold the attention span longer and generate more interest from a student. Over the next few weeks we’ll be introducing our crew, the extended family we’ve adopted over the past year.
You can see more of what we do at the Magic Stunts website
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Nice content indeed! i will visit as often as i can.
cheers
That’s Too nice, when it comes in india hope it can make a Rocking place for youngster.. hope that come true.
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