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The Idea Behind
CLT is not just an institute of dance or drama-it is
something more. It develops such qualities like resourcefulness, self
possession, mental alertness and personality in the child. Given a
careful lead, children develop a graceful posture, mental poise and
fitful behaviour through group training that CLT imparts. As they gain
experience in playing their parts in the group, they blossom out-no
longer shy, but anxious to play their parts in the community as better
citizens.
Young children are the same all over the world having their own
language of appreciation expressed in movement, rhythms and jingles.
That is why they have no linguistic barrier. It is feeling more than
ideas that they wish to convey and the most natural form of
self-expression is through rhythms. This is the central idea behind CLT
movement. So it has evolved a technique of its own through rhythm.
Children's theatre show by and for the children is
something new even to the western countries, and CLT in India can very
justly claim to be the pioneer in this respect and has gone a long way
in the holistic development of a child. Yet, in a sense, the efforts of CLT do not touch
even the fringes of the massive requirement of this vast country. It is a
pilot project to be adopted by schools, whose children are the ultimate
beneficiaries. In course of these years many schools have taken up our
lead to supplement their school room activities.
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