Dorothy Morrissey: Dramatic performance as pedagogy in initial teacher education

This paper focuses on the use of dramatic performance as pedagogy in an elective module in drama education, located in the final semester of a four-year initial teacher education programme in Ireland. The paper...

Exploring Techniques and Practices from the IDIERI 9 Workshops (Part 1)

Delegates at the 9th International Drama in Education Research Institute were treated to an abundance of exciting and engaging practical workshops during the 7-day event. To give you a flavour of what was on offer, the Dialogue team...
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Persona: A ‘Slice of Life’ in Mesmerising Tableaus

Check out the video above for some photographs from the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019 in Kristiansand, as well as some reactions from Youth Delegates in the audience. Below, you can check out some more...

Walls

In 1989, the people of the German Democratic Republic imagined a new and different future. They demonstrated against a political system that had suppressed its people and denied them basic human rights....

Drama Games from all over the World!

The ASSITEJ Playground was an icebreaker event, where creative and collaborative drama games from practitioners around the world were shared and enjoyed. It is worth mentioning that many participants and facilitators who were in the audience...
Interview with Reeves Collins

Embracing “Good Crazy” at Coming Full Circle

I went to see Coming Full Circle, a talk and documentary screening delivered by Jenny Anne Koppera. During her speech, Koppera spoke of establishing herinternational Theatre company, Spinning Dot Theatre. She began with the...

Capturing The Cloud Catcher

The Cloud Catcher was presented as part of Magnet Theatre's Rocking the Cradle on Friday, 26th May, 2017. The Cloud Catcher explores the life of Buhle, a girl from Langa Township in Cape Town, who constantly...

Dialogue at IDIERI 9: Tyranny of Distance

Dialogue – The Community Performance Network is a non-profit knowledge sharing network specialising in supporting practitioners to generate and use evidence in order to boost and sustain their work. This year, we’re collaborating with IDIERI...

Po Chi, Tam and Mei-Chun, Lim: Glocalising drama education in Hong Kong and Taiwan:...

Drawing on the theory of Chen Kuan-Hsing’s, ‘Asia as Method’, this paper aims to investigate how drama education is glocalised in the early childhood education in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The notions of inter-referencing...

Madge Hair: Writing on Gumbaynggirr Country for Co-Created Theatre as Decolonising Practice

This presentation analyses the challenges and processes of cocreating pieces of musical theatre inspired by and responding to storylines from Gumbaynggirr country, mid-north coast, New South Wales. The central question posed by the presenter’s...