Alexandra Lodge: Script-Down Script Development: Deaf Gain and Physical Dramaturgy in Aotearoa
This paper will discuss the development of my creative practice of Takitoru Dramaturgy. The practice originated in my doctoral research: the development of a...
Christian Leavesley and Alexandra Macalister-Bills: A familiar distance: converged theatre making in regional Victorian...
Does distance from major cultural centres necessarily imply a dearth of theatre experiences for regional and rural young people? This paper will explore Arena...
Catalina Villanueva and Carmel O’Sullivan: Challenging distances: Navigating the waters of critical pedagogy in...
Drama’s potential for critical pedagogy has been explored in recent years (Freebody & Finneran, 2013; O’Connor, 2013), but seldom in Latin American settings. This...
Robyn Ewing and John Nicholas Saunders: Bridging the literacy-arts divide in Australian primary education:...
In neo-liberal times the distance between traditional understandings of literacy and the Arts has lengthened dramatically. A partnership between Australia’s largest theatre company and...
Rachel Rhoades: Ethnodrama of Intersectionality: Neoliberalism & Youth Resistance in Toronto
The 12 Toronto youth in my ethnodrama study strive to survive neoliberal individualism that distances them from intimate peer connections and from knowledge of...
Norifumi Hida: Creating next-generation international artists for theatre for young audiences
The International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People (ASSITEJ) comprises theatre artists from all over the world who, despite the diversity of...
Mary Ann Hunter: On wayfinding and a precarious politics of presence
Educators, artists, children, star-gazers. We/they/you trade in primacies of encounter and the arts of being present – to oneself, to others, and to belongings of practice,...
IDIERI 9: Day 6 Twitter Roundup
The penultimate day of the 9th International Drama in Education Research Institute was jam-packed with concurrent sessions - papers, panels, and workshops. Keep reading for...
Claire French: Towards translingual praxis: departures from monolingual facilitation
This paper presents interdisciplinary research that draws from discourse in sociolinguistics to problematise uncritical language-based paradigms inherited by facilitators of applied performance praxis, focusing...
Monica Prendergast and Robyn Shenfield Bouchard: From theatre to performance studies: Collaborating on curriculum...
The implementation of a performance studies curriculum in secondary schools presents opportunities and barriers. Following from a federally-funded curriculum development project--that led to the...