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05.08.2020

This year the Nuckids Project started in a new on-line format for everyone. And in order to conduct it, practically everything had to be planned from ground zero – how to do morning exercises with kids? How to carry out stage speech and vocal training so that the participants do not interrupt each other and the teacher?

But the main challenge of an online project is the difference between time zones. It can sometimes be a gap of 6 or even 7 hours. So for instance, when participants from the European part of Russia have just woken up and have breakfast, in Trans-Baikal Territory – Krasnokamensk, for example, it is already 16:00.

That’s why for many events – castings and vocal classes, which take place during the day, a priority rule was set up – the more time a participant has on the clock, the easier it is for him/her to get into the “top ten” in order to avoid disrupting the day’s schedule.

However, if at casting you can let someone go first, then at workshops, you have to work all together. Workshops are held each day on the project, its schedule is made according to the participants’ time zones. Many workshops take place simultaneously.

How does it work?

There are several virtual classrooms on the project website, such as the director’s room, choreography, acting and assembly halls. Children connect to it from their accounts and wait for mentors or counselors’ guidance to start their classes. As practice shows, acting class on the project can be taken by at least six teams at once in just one hour!

But how can you practice speech or vocals if everyone has a different connection and outside noises?

Each user can turn the microphone and camera on and off. Which is very helpful for the format of general meetings – as a rule, children usually turn off their microphones for a while to remove unnecessary sounds. After the teacher explains the task and shows it several times, the children turn on the mic and camera one by one and demonstrate how they understood the task.

When it comes to the choreography class, each participant of the workshop is required to record a separate video of the choreographer’s task accompanied by music. Thus it becomes clear not only whether the child has learned the movements or not, but also whether he/she feels the music. After all, it is often the most important task in contemporary choreography.

To sum it up, it is possible to say that regardless of all the digital time challenges, the NucKids Project can be easily called a mobile one. All the familiar activities are transformed into a new format on a digital platform, which can now be used not only by the participants, but also by all those who wish to explore the project from the inside.

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