MÜZİK VE HAREKET EĞİTİMİ ÇERÇEVESİNDE GELENEKSEL TÜRK TİYATROSU ÖĞELERİNİN KULLANILMASI ÜZERİNE ÖNERİLER

The purpose of this article is to stress the resources and possibilities that “Music and Movement Education Using Orff Approach” offers, in the transference of public theater tradition to young generations through education. The place of public theater in the primary school curriculum of today will be established, as well as coming up with the new suggestions from a perspective that brings together and analyzes the interrelationship between creative drama-Orff Aproach and traditional theater. A human being capable of using written and oral symbols can also build a cultural accumulation and transfer this to younger generations. However, the fact that this cultural accumulation is very fast in modern societies makes it impossible for the members of those societies to have sufficient contact with the various dimensions of that cultural heritage during their daily lives and being exposed to something insufficiently, a person will not learn enough of it. At this point, education institutions take on the responsibility of transferring that cultural heritage to younger generations. In current education programs, Art education has a vital function in terms of introducing as well as successfully transferring the values the public theater has, since it is a part of that heritage. As it is known well, the various kinds of public theater traditionally belong both to rural or urban areas have one important common feature: they are dependent on improvisation rather than on written text. Songs, dance, word plays and imitation are all indispensable features of Traditional Turkish Theater. The existence of richness and variety in the Turkish culture stems from the fact that there exist such an organic bond between this trio; song-dance-word, and it is the job of the transferors to preserve this organic bond in order to not to lose integrity of the culture that is being transferred. The transference with these principles in mind will be more meaningful as well as comprehensible. “Music and Movement Educaiton Using Orff Approach” refers to this aforementioned bond, while defining “elementary music” that depends on the unity of language, music and movement, as well as reorganizing all the activities in the education system. In this article, the function of Orff Aproach toward introducing the Traditional Turkish Theater to the education system through music and movement will be discussed, as well as investigating the possibility of using what comes out of this process as potential teaching material, biringing suggestions where appropriate.