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...

Exploring the Producers’ Bazaar

Janni Younge, the multi-award winning South African Puppeteer, facilitated the Cradle of Creativity’s Producers' Bazaar on 22nd and 23rd May 2017 at The Masque Theatre in Muizenberg, Cape Town. The Bazaar emphasised the importance of making interpersonal connections...

Fiona McDonagh: A teacher’s story of dramatic change

This paper presents a case study derived from a larger phenomenological inquiry into the ‘lived experience’ of teachers cocreating drama in Irish primary classrooms. Co-creating drama depends on the active involvement of the teacher,...

Rannveig Thorkelsdóttir: How is drama as a subject implemented in Icelandic compulsory education?

In Iceland, drama is a subject in the national curriculum. Within a socio-cultural framework of understanding, an ethnographic study of the culture and the context for the implementation of drama was carried out and...

Leny Woolsey: The Distance of Hierarchy

Hierarchy Noun A system in which members of an organization or society are ranked according to relative status or authority. Synonyms pecking order, ranking, grading, ladder, social order, class system Hierarchy takes three forms;...
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Chatting with Yannick Boudeau – Faces of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019

Yannick Boudeau has been the General Manager and Producer at Compagnie la Casquette, a Theatre for Young Audience in Brussels, since 2007. Co-founding ASSITEJ Belgium in 2014, he has been the Chairman...

Art is a Free Voice?

Gunhild Bjørnsgård led a timely and relevant debate on whether we really have a free voice while creating Art. The discussion explored why Art is important to oneself and to society and...

After School Game Changer Programme

I met up with Mandisa Qwosha, from Amoyo Performing Arts Foundation, along with Marius Mama, Errienne Matwan and Harrington Tiny Ngaleka, from the South African Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport (DCAS). These four incredibly inspiring...

Dancers of the Cradle

In its second week, the Cradle of Creativity hosted two Focus Days on Dance Theatre for Young People (Wednesday, May 24th and Thursday, May 25th, 2017). The sessions during these days included a workshop on "Empathy as...

Fingers, Toes and Happy Toddlers

Nicola Elliot’s Fingers And Toes, My Body Knows was an exciting addition to the programme for Early Years at the Cradle of Creativity. With the audience each being given a cushion upon entry into the...