The Applied Theatre Artist

The Applied Theatre Artist
Author: Kay Hepplewhite
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2020-07-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 303047268X

This book analyses the work of applied theatre practitioners using a new framework of ‘responsivity’ to make visible their unique expertise. In-depth investigation of practice combines with theorisation to provide a fresh view of the work of artists and facilitators. Case studies are drawn from community contexts: with women, mental health service users, refugees, adults with a learning disability, older people in care, and young people in school. Common skills and qualities are given a vocabulary to help define applied theatre work, such as awareness, anticipation, adaptation, attunement, and responsiveness. The Applied Theatre Artist is of scholarly, practical, and educational interest. The book offers detailed analysis of how skilled theatre artists make in-action decisions within socially engaged participatory projects. Rich description of in-session activity reveals what workshop facilitators actually do and how they think, offering a rare focus in applied theatre.

Applied Theatre

Applied Theatre
Author: Philip Taylor
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Philip Taylor offers strategies for using theatre to raise awareness, propose alternatives, provide healing, and implement community change.

Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth

Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth
Author: Megan Alrutz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1135053863

Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth argues that theatre artists must re-imagine how and why they facilitate performance practices with young people. Rapid globalization and advances in media and technology continue to change the ways that people engage with and understand the world around them. Drawing on pedagogical, aesthetic, and theoretical threads of applied theatre and media practices, this book presents practitioners, scholars, and educators with innovative approaches to devising and performing digital stories. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of digital storytelling as an applied theatre practice. Alrutz explores how participatory and mediated performance practices can engage the wisdom and experience of youth; build knowledge about self, others and society; and invite dialogue and deliberation with audiences. In doing so, she theorizes digital storytelling as a site of possibility for critical and relational practices, feminist performance pedagogies, and alliance building with young people.

Applied Theatre

Applied Theatre
Author: Monica Prendergast
Publisher: Intellect Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN: 9781841502816

"Applied Theatre is the first study to assist practitioners and students to develop critical frameworks for planning and implementing their own theatrical projects. This reader-friendly text considers an international range of case studies in applied theatre through discussion questions, practical activities and detailed analysis of specific theatre projects globally."--Provided by the publisher.

Applied Theatre: Understanding Change

Applied Theatre: Understanding Change
Author: Kelly Freebody
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2018-06-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319781782

This volume offers researchers and practitioners new perspectives on applied theatre work, exploring the relationship between applied theatre and its intent, success and value. Applied theatre is a well-established field focused on the social application of the arts in a range of contexts including schools, prisons, residential aged care and community settings. The increased uptake of applied theatre in these contexts requires increased analysis and understanding of indications of success and value. This volume provides critical commentary and questions regarding issues associated with developing, delivering and evaluating applied theatre programs. Part 1 of the volume presents a discussion of the ways the concept of change is presented to and by funding bodies, practitioners, participants, researchers and policy makers to discover and analyse the relationships between applied theatre practice, transformative intent, and evaluation. Part 2 of the volume offers perspectives from key authors in the field which extend and contextualize the discussion by examining key themes and practice-based examples.

Applied Practice

Applied Practice
Author: Nick Rowe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2017-08-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1474283837

This edited collection brings together theoretical and practice-based perspectives on the question of ‘evidence of impact’ in relation to arts practice in a social context.

The Art of Chicago Improv

The Art of Chicago Improv
Author: Rob Kozlowski
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Kozlowski traces the history of improvisational acting in Chicago from the days of Viola Spolin to the appearance of the Compass, Second City, and today's practitioners

Applied Theatre: A Pedagogy of Utopia

Applied Theatre: A Pedagogy of Utopia
Author: Selina Busby
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2022-10-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1350232815

Shortlisted for the 2022 TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize Applied Theatre: A Pedagogy of Utopia offers a critical consideration of long-term applied and participatory theatre projects. In doing so, it provides a timely analysis of concepts that inform applied theatre and outlines a new way of thinking about making theatre with differing groups of participants. The book problematizes key concepts including safe spaces, voice, ethical practice and resistance. Selina Busby analyses applied theatre projects in India, the USA and the UK, in youth theatres, homeless shelters, prisons and with those living in informal housing settlements to consider her key question: what might a pedagogy of utopia look like? Drawing on 20 years of practice in a range of contexts, this book focuses on long-term interventions that raise troubling questions about applied theatre, cultural colonialism and power, while arguing that community or participatory theatre conversely has the potential to generate a resilient sense of optimism, or what Busby terms, a 'nebulous utopia'.

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance
Author: Tim Prentki
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 912
Release: 2020-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367546106

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond. These volumes offer insights from within and beyond the sphere of English-speaking scholarship, curated by regional experts in applied performance. The reader will gain an understanding of some of the dominant preoccupations of performance in specified regions, enhanced by contextual framing. From the dis(h)arming of the human body through dance in Colombia to clowning with dementia in Australia, via challenges to violent nationalism in the Balkans, transgender performance in Pakistan and resistance rap in Kashmir, the essays, interviews and scripts are eloquent testimony to the courage and hope of people who believe in the power of art to renew the human spirit. Students, academics, practitioners, policy-makers, cultural anthropologists and activists will benefit from the opportunities to forge new networks and develop in-depth comparative research offered by this bold, global project.

Applied Theatre

Applied Theatre
Author: James Thompson
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Children's theater
ISBN: 9780820462905

Often operating outside the bounds of theater buildings, applied theater involves the practice of theater in communities, social institutions, and with marginalized groups. In this study, Thompson (drama, Manchester U., UK) examines various programs (mainly in prisons and development settings) to assess the claims that applied theater can bring a