Chatting with Tatiana Bobrova & Reeli Lonks – Faces of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering...
Tatiana Bobrova is Chief Coordinator and Programmer of the International Theatre Kingfestival and Manager of the Novgorod Theatre for Children and Youth Mali (in Velikiy Novgorod, Russia). She is also a Composer and...
Clowning Around with Dr Jamie McLaren Lachman
Myrto Papoulia and Tegan Arazny sat down with Dr Jamie McLaren Lachman, Founder & Executive Director of Clowns Without Borders South Africa, on Wednesday, 21st June 2017.
You can watch the full video (52 minutes)...
Performance Highlights from IDIERI 9
The Attitudes
“I try to explore in my body and voice difference modes of white resistance to challenges about power and privilege.
The physicality of the showing is inspired by 18th century writings and interpretations...
Awards Ceremony at the Cradle of Creativity
The ASSITEJ Awards Ceremony was held on Friday, May 26th, and was an opportunity to acknowledge the pioneers and leaders working in the field who have made significant contributions to Theatre for Young Audiences.
To...
Robin Pascoe and Peter Wright: Representation and authenticity in drama research
The ways that research is shared is often reductive, pseudo-scientific and may be missing the richness of lived experience. While experience is always embodied as researchers we work to be less removed from the...
Three Monks
Having been selected as the host for ASSITEJ's 2018 Artistic Gathering, all eyes were on the China National Children's Theatre for their Production of Three Monks being performed at the Baxter Theatre at the end of...
Opening up a Creative Case for Diversity and Interculturality
A theme that has surfaced repeatedly over the past two days is intercultural exchange and diversity. The Cradle of Creativity is, in itself, a tremendous forum of exchange. As such, being able to reflect on...
Tracey-Lynne Cody, Janinka Greenwood, Sharon Mazer, Christian Penny, and Jo Randerson: Aotearoa / New...
This locally focused panel was truly an inspiration - what follows is a selection of the panel’s words from the session…
“I’m going to position as a good thing because it allows people...
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...
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...