Diversity of Practice at IDIERI 9
One of the great privileges of documenting conferences such as the International Drama in Education Research Institute is being able to partake in diverse practical workshop sessions. On Day 2 of the 7-day event,...
Checking in to Kristiansand
When I first started considering Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) as a career option, I never in my wildest dreams would have imagined it would be bringing me here, to a coastal...
Projects from Around the World
The video below captures an informal meeting at the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019, where anyone in attendance in Kristiansand who had something to present was given the chance to do so.
Perceptions of Home in Vrygrond
“Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear”...
Appreciative Dialogue
As part of the Cradle of Creativity, Henrik Køhler and Peter Manscher from the Danish Teatercentrum (trans. Theatre Centre) ran a workshop to guide participants through a structured exploration of their reactions to Karoo Moose (produced by Baxter Theatre...
Telling Stories in Class
The 'Our Story, Your Story' project visited nine schools in and around George (South Africa) at the start of May 2017, delivering interactive sessions to young learners and their educators.
The photographs below show the workshops in...
The Music Theatre for Young Audiences Network
“What is Music Theatre For Young Audiences?” This was the question posed to the participants of a workshop aiming to plan the start of a new international Music Theatre Network.
Held at the Baxter Theatre,...
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...
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 on the monolingual orientation. I use recent multilingual South African...