Documenting the Documenters
The 19th ASSITEJ World Congress and International Theatre Festival for Children and Young People, held in Cape Town from16th – 27th May 2017, was a tremendous success for all involved.
Together, the six dedicated and...
A Patchwork for Every Age
Patchwork (Dir. Joanna Evans) is an award-winning Early Years Production, created in 2014 with a seed-funding grant from the European Small Size Network. Centred around a bed, the show sees pillows learning to fly,...
Sarah Woodland: Heterotopias in Performance: Participatory theatre in a women’s prison
Our Ancestors, Our History, Our Lost Culture was a devised performance given by women inside Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre in 2017. The performance dealt with the forced removal and institutionalization of Indigenous Australian children...
Takahiro Watanabe: How can drama change learning of both teachers and children at school?
Introducing drama into school curriculum can impact how teachers learn during in-service training programs at school as well as how children learn in lessons. Not just discussing lesson plans or events in lessons but...
Christine Hatton and Richard Sallis: Provocative dialogues: Shifting perspectives on drama research practice
This panel reflects on an innovative new book Drama Research Methods: Provocations of Practice which sought to challenge current understandings of drama research by asking prominent drama researchers to engage in critical dialogues about...
Children as Audience and as Co-Researchers
Pernille Welent Sørensen is a PhD student in Performance Design at Roskilde University (Denmark). Since 2010, she's been employed by Teatercentrum (Denmark) who also co-financed her project “Children becoming Audience in the...
Workshop in Movement
Check out the video above for some workshop highlights from the session delivered to Youth Delegates at the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019 in Kristiansand.
This was not an ordinary dance class...
Dialogue at the ASSITEJ Cradle of Creativity
This project has now ended. You can see all of the resulting posts (over 100 multimedia resources) here.
Dialogue is proud to announce its partnership with ASSITEJ – the International Association of Theatre for Children...
A Wild Day Out with The Dancing Beasts
Mexican Theatre Company, La Liga teatro elástico, collaborated with South African Puppeteers and Actors from both The Mothertongue Project and Handspring Puppet Company. Together with local Young People, they brought a pack of wolf puppets to life. Onlookers watched...
A Look into Patrice Balbina’s World
The following podcast (6 minutes) explores the collaboratively devised, multi-lingual piece, Patrice Balbina’s Chance Encounter with the End of the World, from the varied perspectives of the Director (Fraser Corfield), some of the Cast...