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...
Workshop in Movement
Check out the video above for some workshop highlights from the session delivered to Youth Delegates at the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019 in Kristiansand.
This was not an ordinary dance class...
“Never Stop Playing” at the ITYARN Conference
“It is our duty to help the children, they should grow seeing everybody in similar situations. This is our duty!”
- Sindiwe Magona
Sindiwe Magona, a South African Children’s Writer and Translator, shared her inspirational and motivating...
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...
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...
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...
Q&A with Gaenor Stoate, Lucy Lott, Moe Gregorzewski, Eva Göksel, and Martha Lamont
https://youtu.be/mTRuTi_7msI
Gaenor Stoate is a teaching fellow at the University of Waikato, lecturing in the Faculty of Education on secondary drama curriculum papers and also in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences where she teaches...
Rachael Jacobs, Robyn Ewing, Juliana M. Saxton and Carole Miller: Embracing tyrannies?: Critical moments...
Assessment is often thought to be the enemy of creativity, with its tyrannical hold over teaching and learning, and its friends ‘quality assurance’ and ‘accountability’. Yet in educational spaces, drama assessment must take place....
Awakening the Senses
Sensescapes is an interactive and multi-sensory theatrical experience created specifically for babies. It challenges conventional aesthetics and proposes a unique concept for Theatre that connects Parents and Children.
The following video (2 minutes) includes some excerpts...
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;...