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...
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...
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...
The Next Generation Programme at the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019
The participants of the ASSITEJ Next Generation Programme welcomed delegates to their workshop space on the penultimate day of the Artistic Gathering in Kristiansand to witness and engage with a collaborative process...
Free Voice Improvisation with Aita Vaher
A fascinating workshop - with lots of tips and tricks on display from Aita Vaher!
Linda Hassall: Politics of Distance: Psychological Landscapes. Contemporary Identity in Australian Gothic Drama
The politics of distance has informed the psychological landscape of Australian cultural identity since settlement and colonisation. Australian Gothic drama explores the psychology of distance through socio cultural themes associated with identity, race and...
Lise Hovik’s Animalium Workshop
Check out the video above for some workshop highlights from the session delivered at the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019 in Kristiansand.
Workshop Description:Through playing and improvisation exercises the workshop participants created...
Dirk J Rodricks: Diasporic Intimacy in/through/with an Applied Theatre Methodology: Tensions and Possibilities for...
The notion of intimacy is connected to home and a diasporic intimacy, according to Boym (1998), is one that is not opposed to uprootedness and defamiliarization but rather is constituted by it. Reflecting on...
Matt Omasta and Elizabeth Murray: Assessment in Elementary Drama Education
This study articulates U.S. elementary (primary) school drama specialists’ / teachers’ perceptions of assessment as a component of education and documents assessment processes and procedures in drama classrooms. Through a series of qualitative interviews...
Mette Bøe Lyngstad: DREAMCATCHERS: A Narrative Research Project with Substance Abusers and Relatives
In our paper, we will present a narrative research connected to storytelling project with 8 previous substance abusers and their next-of-kind. In 20 days they developed stories of their dreams for the future, to...