Theatre And Empowerment

Author : Richard Boon,Jane Plastow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139453516

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Theatre and Empowerment by Richard Boon,Jane Plastow Pdf

Theatre and Empowerment examines the ability of drama, theatre, dance and performance to empower communities of very different kinds, and it does so from a multi-cultural perspective. The communities involved include poverty-stricken children in Ethiopia and the Indian sub-continent, disenfranchised Native Americans in the USA and young black men in Britain, victims of violence in South Africa and Northern Ireland, and a threatened agricultural town in Italy. The book asserts the value of performance as a vital agent of necessary social change, and makes its arguments through the close examination, from 'inside' practice, of the success - not always complete - of specific projects in their practical and cultural contexts. Practitioners and commentators ask how performance in its widest sense can play a part in community activism on a scale larger than the individual, 'one-off' project by helping communities find their own liberating and creative voices.

Author : Sara Clifford,Anna Herrmann
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1853026328

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Making a Leap by Sara Clifford,Anna Herrmann Pdf

A practical handbook for those wanting to use drama and theatre to explore issues in their work with young people, this book has developed from ten years of active research in community settings. The authors' holistic approach to theatre-making draws on theatre in education, community theatre, youth work, group work and conflict resolution.

Author : Gilbert Doho
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : 1592214916

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People Theater and Grassroots Empowerment in Cameroon by Gilbert Doho Pdf

A personal history, political tract, performance manual and drama collection describing the establishment of 'people theatre' workshops throughout Cameroon. Doho examines the origins and evolution of people theatre on the African continent and, through five examples of actual workshops dealing with community health, human rights and minority issues, presents the process by which people theatre is created. A fascinating overview of a radical force for social and political change.

Author : Cindy Maguire,Ann Holt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000548907

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Arts and Culture in Global Development Practice by Cindy Maguire,Ann Holt Pdf

This book explores the role that arts and culture can play in supporting global international development. The book argues that arts and culture are fundamental to human development and can bring considerable positive results for helping to empower communities and provide new ways of looking at social transformation. Whilst most literature addresses culture in abstract terms, this book focuses on practice-based, collective, community-focused, sustainability-minded, and capacity-building examples of arts and development. The book draws on case studies from around the world, investigating the different ways practitioners are imagining or defining the role of arts and culture in Belize, Canada, China, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Kosovo, Malawi, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, the USA, and Western Sahara refugee camps in Algeria. The book highlights the importance of situated practice, asking what questions or concerns practitioners have and inviting a dialogic sharing of resources and possibilities across different contexts. Seeking to highlight practices and conversations outside normative frameworks of understanding, this book will be a breath of fresh air to practitioners, policy makers, students, and researchers from across the fields of global development, social work, art therapy, and visual and performing arts education.

Author : Amelia Howe Kritzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:610231026

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The Plays of Caryl Churchill by Amelia Howe Kritzer Pdf

Author : Szabolcs Musca,Marco Galea
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Community theater
ISBN : 1789380766

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Redefining Theatre Communities by Szabolcs Musca,Marco Galea Pdf

Redefining Theatre Communities explores the interplay between contemporary theatre and communities. It considers the aesthetic, social and cultural aspects of community-conscious theatre-making. It also reflects on transformations in structural, textual and theatrical conventions, and explores changing modes of production and spectatorship.

Author : Stephen Wangh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415644914

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The Heart of Teaching by Stephen Wangh Pdf

Teaching Questions is a book about teaching and learning in the performing arts. Its focus is on the inner dynamics of teaching: the processes by which teachers can promote - or undermine - creativity itself. It covers the many issues that teachers, directors and choreographers experience, from the frustrations of dealing with silent students, and helping young artists 'unlearn' their inhibitions, to problems of resistance, judgment and race in the classroom. Teaching Questions speaks to experienced teachers and beginning teachers in all disciplines, bringing essential insight and honesty to the discussion of how to teach.

Author : Lois Weaver,Helen Freshwater
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230364608

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Theatre and Audience by Lois Weaver,Helen Freshwater Pdf

What does theatre do for – and to – those who witness, watch, and participate in it? Theatre & Audience provides a provocative overview of the questions raised by theatrical encounters between performers and audiences. Focusing on European and North American theatre and its audiences in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, it explores belief in theatre's potential to influence, impact and transform. Illustrated by examples of performance which have sought to generate active audience involvement – from Brecht's epic theatre to the Blue Man Group – it seeks to unsettle any simple equation between audience participation and empowerment. Foreword by Lois Weaver.

Author : Liam Jarvis,Sue Buckmaster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429786181

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Theatre-Rites by Liam Jarvis,Sue Buckmaster Pdf

Theatre-Rites are regarded as pioneers in the field of object-led and site-specific performance, creating ground-breaking work for family audiences since 1995. This book marks the company’s 25th anniversary, offering the first in-depth exploration of artistic director Sue Buckmaster’s visionary practice, in which anything can be animated. This book draws on original research, including five years of in-depth interviews between its authors, images from Theatre-Rites’ archive and Buckmaster’s private collection, detailed observations from the company’s professional training workshops and personal reflections on past productions. A timely and compelling advocacy for the importance of high-quality experimental arts provision for young audiences is made, distilling learning from decades of the company’s professional activities to motivate and empower the next generation of object-led theatre-makers. Theatre-Rites: Animating Puppets, Objects and Sites is an invaluable resource for any puppeteer, actor, dancer, visual artist, poet or student interested in expanding their understanding of how to incorporate puppetry and/or symbolic objects as metaphors in their work.

Author : Rose Biggin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319620398

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Immersive Theatre and Audience Experience by Rose Biggin Pdf

This book is the first full-length monograph to focus on Punchdrunk, the internationally-renowned theatre company known for its pioneering approach to immersive theatre. With its promises of empowerment, freedom and experiential joy, immersive theatre continues to gain popularity - this study brings necessary critical analysis to this rapidly developing field. What exactly do we mean by audience “immersion”? How might immersion in a Punchdrunk production be described, theorised, situated or politicised? What is valued in immersive experience - and are these values explicit or implied? Immersive Theatre and Audience Experience draws on rehearsals, performances and archival access to Punchdrunk, providing new critical perspectives from cognitive studies, philosophical aesthetics, narrative theory and computer games. Its discussion of immersion is structured around three themes: interactivity and game; story and narrative; environment and space. Providing a rigorous theoretical toolkit to think further about the form’s capabilities, and offering a unique set of approaches, this book will be of significance to scholars, students, artists and spectators.

Author : L. Dale Byam
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780897895811

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Community in Motion by L. Dale Byam Pdf

Africa has internal cultural resources that have positively influenced its development. Community in Motion explores the relationship between theatre and Freirian pedagogy. It underscores the urgency of refocusing development strategies on human rather than technical resources by showing how culture has traditionally played an important role in African development, and demonstrates the similarities between traditional African cultural paradigms and Freirian pedagogy. The author describes selected significant Theatre for Development programs in diverse parts of Africa and determines the extent that these programs find congruence with the teachings of Paulo Freire. Case studies of Botswana, Zambia, Nigeria, and Kenya explore in detail the ongoing work in Zimbabwe, specifically the Zimbabwe Association of Community Theatre (ZACT). ZACT's work is analyzed in the context of Freirian pedagogy in order to highlight the development of a community-based theatre operation that is national in its scope and international in its influences.

Author : Shauna MacKinnon
Publisher : Purich Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774880138

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Practising Community-Based Participatory Research by Shauna MacKinnon Pdf

There is increasing pressure on university scholars to reach beyond the “ivory tower” and engage in collaborative research with communities. But what exactly is community-based participatory research (CBPR) and what does engagement look like? This book presents stories about CBPR from Manitoba Research Alliance projects in marginalized communities. Bringing together experienced researchers with new scholars and community practitioners, the stories describe the impetus for the projects, how they came to be implemented, and how CBPR is still being used within the community. By providing space for researchers and their collaborators to share the stories behind their research, this book offers rich insights into the power and practice of CBPR.

Author : Augusto Boal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136748806

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The Rainbow of Desire by Augusto Boal Pdf

Rainbow of Desire is a handbook of exercises with a difference. It is Augusto Boal's bold and brilliant statement about the therapeutic ability of theatre to liberate individuals and change lives. Now translated into English and comprehensively updated from the French, Rainbow of Desire sets out the techniques which help us `see' for the first time the oppressions we have internalised. Boal, a Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician, has been confronting oppression in various forms for over thirty years. His belief that theatre is a means to create the future has inspired hundreds of groups all over the world to use his techniques in a multitude of settings. This, his latest work, includes such exercises as: * The Cops in the Head and their anti-bodies * The screen image * The image of the future we are afraid of * Image and counter-image ....and many more. Rainbow of Desire will make fascinating reading for those already familiar with Boal's work and is also completely accessible to anyone new to Theatre of the Oppressed techniques.

Author : Jean Benedict Raffa
Publisher : Innisfree Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Dreams
ISBN : 1880913100

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Dream Theatres of the Soul by Jean Benedict Raffa Pdf

What are your dreams telling you? Dr. Raffa believes that "dreams show us who we are and what we can become." In this fascinating book of how to analyze dreams, explore the feminine aspects, and use dreams to grow emotionally and spiritually, Raffa combines the metaphor of a theatre with the practicality of a handbook to provide a practical guide to understanding your dreams.

Author : Robert Landy,David T. Montgomery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350316348

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Theatre for Change by Robert Landy,David T. Montgomery Pdf

Building on Robert J. Landy's seminal text, Handbook of Educational Drama and Theatre, Landy and Montgomery revisit this richly diverse and ever-changing field, identifying some of the best international practices in Applied Drama and Theatre. Through interviews with leading practitioners and educators such as Dorothy Heathcote, Jan Cohen Cruz, James Thompson, and Johnny Saldaña, the authors lucidly present the key concepts, theories and reflective praxis of Applied Drama and Theatre. As they discuss the changes brought about by practitioners in venues such as schools, community centres, village squares and prisons, Landy and Montgomery explore the field's ability to make meaning of a vast range of personal and social issues through the application of drama and theatre.