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...
Tales from the Norwegian Wood: “Staaloe – to Fight a Giant”
Myth, legends, and fairytales have been around for hundreds of years. You may have had a fairytale passed down through your family, or maybe you grew up hearing myths from your friends...
Panali Panali
Panali Panali, presented by Zambia-based Dinaledi Expressions, combines both storytelling and theatre.
“Panali panali” is a Nyanja phrase, roughly equivalent in English to “once upon a time” or “do I have your attention?” Indeed, the...
Finding Magic at the Baxter Theatre!
The following photo essay explores the wonders of three Performances that were staged at the University of Cape Town's Baxter Theatre on Friday, 19th May, 2017: Korean Story Theatre: Story Silkroad (Korea National University...
Is it just about Disability?
The Arts are not always as diverse, inclusive or accessible as we would like to think they may be. Having a disability, for instance, can be one of the hardest challenges for Young People...
Set Design Is Not Child’s Play
What has been incredible at the Cradle of Creativity Festival is the complexity of set designs and props on display, especially considering some Productions have travelled many thousands of miles to perform in Cape...
A Reflection on Dialogue’s Documentation Project
Dialogue worked with Clowns Without Borders South Africa during 2017, in order to document some of their programmes and projects (click here to access the materials). When the project was complete, Clowns Without Borders South...
Natalie Lazaroo and Izzaty Ishak: The tyranny of (emotional) distance?: Emotional labour and safe...
This paper takes as its theoretical starting points two ideas:(1) Sheila Preston’s (2013) discussion of emotional labour; and (2) ‘safe space’ as explored by Mary Ann Hunter (2008). It considers how ‘tyranny of distance’...
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...
Alternative Dramaturgies for Cross-Cultural Productions and Productions which Represent the So-Called ‘Other’
In this talk, Mariken Lauvstad asks key questions for cross- and intercultural theatre production in our globalised world. How aware is the Western theatre apparatus of its Eurocentric worldview? When Western theatres...