Chilla Tamas and Erika Piazzoli: Who’s Culture Is It Anyway? An exploration of DiE...
International schools are a melting pot of students from a diverse range of cultures. They afford students unique opportunities to experience cultural immersion in their developmental years. In order to nurture intercultural understanding educators...
Robin Pascoe and Peter Wright: Promises, Promises, Curriculum Promises: Implementing a national drama curriculum...
The metaphor of a leaky boat has an apt poignancy for researchers following the publication of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts (Drama) and its adoption and adaption in Western Australia. There are lessons to...
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...
Nina Helene Jakobia Skogli: Against All Odds by Fix & Foxy – Confronting the...
A Paper by Nina Helene Jakobia Skogli University of Agder (Norway)Presented at the Conference of the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network (ITYARN), part of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019...
Sensory Performance Practice Part One: Where We Are And Where We’re Not
I was extremely excited about this symposium. Entitled, “Sensorial Practices in Performing Arts for Babies and Neuro-diverse Audiences - A Critical Perspective”, it was run by Dalijia Acin Thelander and Ellie Griffiths...
Quotes of the Day from the ITYARN Conference
Presenters in the International Association of Theatre Critics’s ‘Mature Criticism in Children's Theatre’ keynotes panel. L-R: Dr Octavian Saiu, Dr Manon van de Water, Tracey Saunders and Professor Emmanuel Dandaura.
On Socially Conscious Theatre ....
Embracing “Good Crazy” at Coming Full Circle
I went to see Coming Full Circle, a talk and documentary screening delivered by Jenny Anne Koppera. During her speech, Koppera spoke of establishing herinternational Theatre company, Spinning Dot Theatre. She began with the...
No Fun Ction All Anguage
Exploring the ways in which we communicate, No Fun Ction All Anguage is a beautifully visual and powerful piece. The inclusive ensemble of differently-abled cast members offered a powerful critique of normative ideas around communication,...
The 19th ASSITEJ World Congress
The 19th ASSITEJ World Congress was held in Cape Town City Hall on Monday 22nd May - Thursday 25th May 2017.
The Congress was an opportunity for all of those involved in the running of...
Mary Ann Hunter: On wayfinding and a precarious politics of presence
Educators, artists, children, star-gazers. We/they/you trade in primacies of encounter and the arts of being present – to oneself, to others, and to belongings of practice, region, interest and culture. They/you/we revel in relationality, curiosity, affect, and...