IDIERI 9: Day 2 Twitter Roundup
The second day of IDIERI 9 was an excellent one - beginning with 6 concurrent practical workshops, the day continued with papers, panels, a performance, and even a book launch event.
https://twitter.com/selinabusby/status/1013904559079657473
https://twitter.com/gaenor22/status/1013879359415844864
https://twitter.com/jendibella/status/1013928328598675457
https://twitter.com/selinabusby/status/1013929267871092737
https://twitter.com/soilsitheoir/status/1013940700369571840
https://twitter.com/cfrenchtweeting/status/1013960733879513088
https://twitter.com/thepollstar/status/1014045414322868224
https://twitter.com/c_and_t/status/1014016216552345601
https://twitter.com/Imagine_A_Day/status/1014080293949489152
https://twitter.com/ride_journal/status/1014038530035724294
https://twitter.com/playfulpedagogy/status/1014078048797220865
An Illuminating Experience at It’s Dark Outside
It’s Dark Outside (dir. Arielle Gray, Chris Isaacs & Tim Watts) is a stunning piece of Theatre in every way, exploring Alzheimer's and dementia in a deep and powerful manner. Having never seen a play about...
Eva Göksel: (Self)Reflection, Agency and New Perspectives: Learning to Teach with Drama in Education
This video-ethnographic study explores pre-service teacher agency and creativity in the Swiss context. A small group of student teachers voluntarily attends after-hours training on possible uses of improvisation and basic drama conventions in the...
A Pair of Shoes and a Whirlwind of Fun
Paired is a charming, inventive and playful performance for two to seven-year-olds, produced by Cape Town's acclaimed Magnet Theatre (with the support of the Goethe-Institut and Helios Theater). Directed by Lwanda Sindaphi, the piece was devised with the...
The Closing Ceremony at the Cradle of Creativity
A Closing Ceremony was held on Saturday, 27th May, 2017 to mark the end of the 19th ASSITEJ World Congress and International Theatre Festival for Children and Young People. Performances by a local Youth Orchestra and Dance...
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...
Ernie Nolan Encounters The Devils We Face in TYA
The Artistic Encounters, daily events which took place during the week of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019, were hosted by members of ASSITEJ's Executive Committee. Dialogue had the pleasure of sitting down...
Opening Up to Honest and Candid Art
The three seminars which I attended at the Conference of the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network (ITYARN), unpacked interesting research on themes such as diversity, inclusion, intercultural exchange and gender. Not only...
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...
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 publication of an Open Source ebook, "Web of Performance: An...