Applied Theatre With Youth

Author : Lisa S. Brenner,Chris Ceraso,Evelyn Diaz Cruz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000398915

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Applied Theatre with Youth by Lisa S. Brenner,Chris Ceraso,Evelyn Diaz Cruz Pdf

Applied Theatre with Youth is a collection of essays that highlight the value and efficacy of applied theatre with young people in a broad range of settings, addressing challenges and offering concrete solutions. This book tackles the vital issues of our time—including, among others, racism, climate crisis, gun violence, immigration, and gender—fostering dialogue, promoting education, and inciting social change. The book is divided into thematic sections, each opening with an essay addressing a range of questions about the benefits, challenges, and learning opportunities of a particular type of applied theatre. These are followed by response essays from theatre practitioners, discussing how their own approach aligns with and/or diverges from that of the initial essay. Each section then ends with a moderated roundtable discussion between the essays’ authors, further exploring the themes, issues, and ideas that they have introduced. With its accessible format and clear language, Applied Theatre with Youth is a valuable resource for theatre practitioners and the growing number of theatre companies with education and community engagement programs. Additionally, it provides essential reading for teachers and students in a myriad of fields: education, theatre, civic engagement, criminal justice, sociology, women and gender studies, environmental studies, disability studies, ethnicity and race studies.

Author : Megan Alrutz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135053864

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Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth by Megan Alrutz Pdf

Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth argues that theatre artists must re-imagine how and why they facilitate performance practices with young people. Rapid globalization and advances in media and technology continue to change the ways that people engage with and understand the world around them. Drawing on pedagogical, aesthetic, and theoretical threads of applied theatre and media practices, this book presents practitioners, scholars, and educators with innovative approaches to devising and performing digital stories. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of digital storytelling as an applied theatre practice. Alrutz explores how participatory and mediated performance practices can engage the wisdom and experience of youth; build knowledge about self, others and society; and invite dialogue and deliberation with audiences. In doing so, she theorizes digital storytelling as a site of possibility for critical and relational practices, feminist performance pedagogies, and alliance building with young people.

Author : Megan Alrutz,Lynn Hoare
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351591591

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Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth by Megan Alrutz,Lynn Hoare Pdf

Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth: The Performing Justice Project offers accessible frameworks for devising original theatre, developing critical understandings of racial and gender justice, and supporting youth to imagine, create, and perform possibilities for a more just and equitable society. Working at the intersections of theory and practice, Alrutz and Hoare present their innovative model for devising critically engaged theatre with novice performers. Sharing why and how the Performing Justice Project (PJP) opens dialogue around challenging and necessary topics already facing young people, the authors bring together critical information about racial and gender justice with new and revised practices from applied theatre, storytelling, theatre, and education for social change. Their curated collection of PJP "performance actions" offers embodied and reflective approaches for building ensemble, devising and performing stories, and exploring and analyzing individual and systemic oppression. This work begins to confront oppressive narratives and disrupt patriarchal systems—including white supremacy, racism, sexism, and homophobia. Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth invites artists, teaching artists, educators, and youth-workers to collaborate bravely with young people to imagine and enact racial and gender justice in their lives and communities. Drawing on examples from PJP residencies in juvenile justice settings, high schools, foster care facilities, and community-based organizations, this book offers flexible and responsive ways for considering experiences of racism and sexism and performing visions of justice. Visit performingjusticeproject.org for additional information and documentation of PJP performances with youth.

Author : Kay Hepplewhite
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030472689

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The Applied Theatre Artist by Kay Hepplewhite Pdf

This book analyses the work of applied theatre practitioners using a new framework of ‘responsivity’ to make visible their unique expertise. In-depth investigation of practice combines with theorisation to provide a fresh view of the work of artists and facilitators. Case studies are drawn from community contexts: with women, mental health service users, refugees, adults with a learning disability, older people in care, and young people in school. Common skills and qualities are given a vocabulary to help define applied theatre work, such as awareness, anticipation, adaptation, attunement, and responsiveness. The Applied Theatre Artist is of scholarly, practical, and educational interest. The book offers detailed analysis of how skilled theatre artists make in-action decisions within socially engaged participatory projects. Rich description of in-session activity reveals what workshop facilitators actually do and how they think, offering a rare focus in applied theatre.

Author : Megan Alrutz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2014007500

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Digital Storytelling by Megan Alrutz Pdf

Author : Tim Prentki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472505187

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Applied Theatre: Development by Tim Prentki Pdf

At once both guide book and provocation, this is an indispensable companion for students and practitioners of applied theatre. It addresses all key aspects: principles, origins, politics and aesthetics in a concise and accessible style designed to appeal both to those who have recently discovered this sub-discipline and to experienced practitioners and academics. Part 1 is divided into two chapters. The first introduces the sub-discipline of Theatre for Development, covering its origins, principles and history, and providing an overview of theatre for development in Western contexts as well as in Africa, Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and Latin America. The second focuses upon theoretical and philosophical issues confronting the discipline and its relationship to contemporary politics, as well as considering its future role. Part 2 consists of seven chapters contributed by leading figures and current practitioners from around the world and covering a diverse range of themes, methodologies and aesthetic approaches. One chapter offers a series of case studies concerned with sexual health education and HIV prevention, drawn from practitioners working in Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Southern Africa, and China. Other chapters include studies of intercultural theatre in the Peruvian Amazon; a programme of applied theatre conducted in schools in Canterbury, New Zealand, following the 2010 earthquake; an attempt to reinvigorate a community theatre group in South Brazil; and an exchange between a Guatemalan arts collective and a Dutch youth theatre company, besides others.

Author : Michael Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317555247

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Youth Theatre by Michael Richardson Pdf

Youth Theatre: Drama for Life defines the youth theatre process, by outlining its constituent parts and explaining how these activities work in order to support young people’s development. As well as describing what is done in youth theatre, it also explores why it’s done and how to ensure the best possible outcomes. The book is in four parts: Part 1 explores the nature and purpose of youth theatre, drawing on Michael Richardson’s extensive personal experience as a practitioner and manager. Part 2 explains, in detail, the youth theatre process: warming up, playing games, voice work, developing skills, devising and the presentation of devised work. Part 3 discusses how to create an appropriate environment within which the youth theatre process can be most effectively applied. Part 4 covers the most common applications of the youth theatre process, namely using it in different education environments; and youth theatre productions and performance. On top of this, two appendices give a list of over 60 games that are useful to use in youth theatre; and a list of recommended further reading that supports this book. As well as giving key tips and advice from his own invaluable experience, Richardson offers comments from practitioners and participants on what makes a successful youth theatre experience. Michael Richardson has worked in youth theatre for over 20 years, has been involved in the training of other practitioners, and in the strategic development of the youth theatre sector in the UK.

Author : Megan Alrutz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 0203500601

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Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth by Megan Alrutz Pdf

Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth argues that theatre artists must re-imagine how and why they facilitate performance practices with young people. Rapid globalization and advances in media and technology continue to change the ways that people engage with and understand the world around them. Drawing on pedagogical, aesthetic, and theoretical threads of applied theatre and media practices, this book presents practitioners, scholars, and educators with innovative approaches to devising and performing digital stories. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of digital storytelling as an applied theatre practice. Alrutz explores how participatory and mediated performance practices can engage the wisdom and experience of youth; build knowledge about self, others and society; and invite dialogue and deliberation with audiences. In doing so, she theorizes digital storytelling as a site of possibility for critical and relational practices, feminist performance pedagogies, and alliance building with young people.

Author : André de Quadros,Dave Kelman,Julie White,Christopher C. Sonn,Alison M. Baker
Publisher : Innovations and Controversies
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Drama
ISBN : 900450558X

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Poking the Wasp Nest by André de Quadros,Dave Kelman,Julie White,Christopher C. Sonn,Alison M. Baker Pdf

"This exciting project wrapped research around a youth theatre project. Young people of colour and from refugee backgrounds developed a sustained provocation for the people of Geelong, a large regional centre in Australia. The packed public performance-at the biggest venue in town-challenged locals to rethink assumptions. The audience response was insightful and momentous. The companion workshops for schools had profound impact with adolescent audiences. Internationally, this book connects with artistic, educational and research communities, offering a substantial contribution to understandings of racism. In summary, this book is a provocative, transdisciplinary meditation on race, culture, the arts and change"--

Author : Stephani Etheridge Woodson
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783205325

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Theatre for Youth Third Space by Stephani Etheridge Woodson Pdf

Theatre for Youth Third Space is a practical yet philosophically grounded handbook for people working in theatre and performance with children and youth in community or educational settings. Presenting asset development approaches, deliberative dialogue techniques and frames for building strong community relationships, Stephani Etheridge Woodson shares multiple project models that are firmly grounded in the latest community cultural development practices. Guiding readers step by step through project planning, creating safe environments and using evaluation protocols, Theatre for Youth Third Space will be an invaluable resource for both teaching and practice.

Author : Colette Conroy,Adelina Ong,Dirk J. Rodricks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000708486

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On Access in Applied Theatre and Drama Education by Colette Conroy,Adelina Ong,Dirk J. Rodricks Pdf

This book explores and interrogates access and diversity in applied theatre and drama education. Access is persistently framed as a strategy to share power and to extend equality, but in the context of current and recent power struggles, it is also seen as a discourse that reinforces marginalisation and exclusion. The political bind of access is also a conceptual problem. It is impossible to refuse to engage in strategies to extend access to institutions, representations, buildings, education, discourse, etc. We cannot oppose access or strategies for access without reinforcing marginalisation and exclusion. We can’t not want access for ourselves or for others. However, we are then in danger of remaining immersed in a distribution of power that reinforces and naturalises inequality as difference. For applied theatre and drama education, the act of creating, teaching, and learning is intrinsically connected to choice, along with the agency and capacity to choose. What is less clear, and what still interests us, is how the distribution of power and representation creates the schema for an analysis of access and diversity. This book was originally published as a special issue of Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.

Author : Jenny Hughes,Helen Nicholson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107065048

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Critical Perspectives on Applied Theatre by Jenny Hughes,Helen Nicholson Pdf

This collection offers fresh perspectives on the aesthetics, politics and histories of applied theatre in a range of global contexts.

Author : Selina Busby,Kelly Freebody,Charlene Rajendran
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000689129

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The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Young People by Selina Busby,Kelly Freebody,Charlene Rajendran Pdf

This companion interrogates the relationship between theatre and youth from a global perspective, taking in performances and theatre made by, for, and about young people. These different but interrelated forms of theatre are addressed through four critical themes that underpin the ways in which analysis of contemporary theatre in relation to young people can be framed: political utterances – exploring the varied ways theatre becomes a platform for political utterance as a process of dialogic thinking and critical imagining; critical positioning – examining youth theatre work that navigates the sensitive, dynamic, and complex terrains in which young people live and perform; pedagogic frames – outlining a range of contexts and programmes in which young people learn to make and understand theatre that reflects their artistic capacities and aesthetic strategies; applying performance – discussing a range of projects and companies whose work has been influential in the development of youth theatre within specific contexts. Providing critical, research-informed, and research-based discussions on the intersection between young people, their representation, and their participation in theatre, this is a landmark text for students, scholars, and practitioners whose work and thinking involves theatre and young people.

Author : Tim Prentki,Sheila Preston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134109791

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The Applied Theatre Reader by Tim Prentki,Sheila Preston Pdf

The Applied Theatre Reader is the first book to bring together new case studies of practice by leading practitioners and academics in the field and beyond, with classic source texts from writers such as Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Mikhail Bakhtin, Augusto Boal, and Chantal Mouffe. This book divides the field into key themes, inviting critical interrogation of issues in applied theatre whilst also acknowledging the multi-disciplinary nature of its subject. It crosses fields such as: theatre in educational settings prison theatre community performance theatre in conflict resolution and reconciliation interventionist theatre theatre for development. This collection of critical thought and practice is essential to those studying or participating in the performing arts as a means for positive change.

Author : Kelly Freebody,Michael Balfour,Michael Finneran,Michael Anderson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319781785

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Applied Theatre: Understanding Change by Kelly Freebody,Michael Balfour,Michael Finneran,Michael Anderson Pdf

This volume offers researchers and practitioners new perspectives on applied theatre work, exploring the relationship between applied theatre and its intent, success and value. Applied theatre is a well-established field focused on the social application of the arts in a range of contexts including schools, prisons, residential aged care and community settings. The increased uptake of applied theatre in these contexts requires increased analysis and understanding of indications of success and value. This volume provides critical commentary and questions regarding issues associated with developing, delivering and evaluating applied theatre programs. Part 1 of the volume presents a discussion of the ways the concept of change is presented to and by funding bodies, practitioners, participants, researchers and policy makers to discover and analyse the relationships between applied theatre practice, transformative intent, and evaluation. Part 2 of the volume offers perspectives from key authors in the field which extend and contextualize the discussion by examining key themes and practice-based examples.