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The integration of music and drama can create a powerful and immersive artistic experience. Transforming a song's lyrics into a theatre act involves a thoughtful approach to storytelling, staging, performance and coordination between the music and dramatic elements. Adapting song lyrics into a theatre act involves an intricate connection between the two art forms. By seamlessly integrating the emotional depth of the music into the narrative, song lyrics become a form of poetic dialogue that propels the storyline and shapes character development. University level students were asked to select a song from the repertoire of Manos Loizos (1937-1982), a renowned Greek composer known for his lyrical compositions on themes of love, politics, and society's resilience. Loizos’s songs gave students the pretext and the impetus to devise new ideas and songs and to redefine the potentials of how a song can be devised in theatre and music
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Clio Fanouraki,
Associate professor in Theatrology–Theatre Didactics (Theory&Praxis), Department of Theatre Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Director, Writer, Performer. Her scientific interests and research focus on theatre/drama education, contemporary theatre, digital theatre/drama and the application of digital technologies in theatre and education, language arts, multicultural drama, writing for theatre, performance and creative writing, the dramatized teaching of Greek language and literature and foreign languages, the design of curricula through the arts and subfields of social and applied theatre. She has conducted multiple research training workshops on the didactics of theatre. Clio Fanouraki has been active in teaching, writing and directing theatre and film for children, young people and adults. (Feature film: Xamou (2016). Short films: Medea (2012), Ftou! Freedom for All (2010), theatre performances etc.). She has worked in the field of research, production and performing for documentaries, film, theatre and art festivals.
Elissavet Perakaki
(PhD, post-PhD) serves as a music education teaching and research staff member (University of Athens, Department of Musical Studies). She has taught music in public primary and secondary schools and conservatories since 1998. Her research interests include music in infancy, innovative teaching methods, creativity, music teachers’ training, and lifelong learning. She organizes music educational programs for infants-caregivers, and children. She is the president of the Greek Society for Music Education (GSME), and she currently is on the board of ISME’s Music in the Schools & Teacher Education Commission (MISTEC) for the period 2020-2026 (chair-elect).
