Teaching critical performance theory : in today's theatre classroom, studio, and communities / edited by Jeanmarie Higgins.
"Teaching Critical Performance Theory offers teaching strategies for professors and artist-scholars across performance, design and technology, and theatre studies disciplines. The book's seventeen essays collectively ask: What use is theory to an emerging theatre artist or scholar? Which t...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : teaching critical performance theory in today's educational landscape / Noe Montez
- Doing things with theory : situated cognition and theatre pedagogy / Jennifer Ewing-Pierce
- Feminist musical theatre pedagogy / Emma Watkins and Stacy Wolf
- Theory over time : Asian-American performance, critical theory, and the theatre history survey / Angela K. Ahlgren
- From systemic dramaturgy to systemic pedagogy : rethinking theatre history and technology / Michael M. Chemers and Mike Sell
- Contemporary playwriting pedagogies : a survey of recent introductory playwriting syllabi / Les Hunter
- Performing blackness, ecodramaturgy, and social justice : toward a radical pedagogy / La Donna L. Forsgren
- Casting Christopher : disability pedagogy in The curious incident of the dog in the night-time / Samuel Yates
- Greening the curriculum : introducing ecocriticism and ecodrama to students in the classroom and rehearsal studio / Miriam Kammer
- Teaching African American plays as "reality checks"; or, Why theatre still matters / Isaiah Matthew Wooden
- Deep thought : teaching critical theory to designers / Jeanmarie Higgins and Michael Schweikardt
- Re-imagining the actor's presence through contemporary neuroscience / Andrew Belser
- Drag evolution : re-imaging gender through theory and practice / Jean O'Hara
- The "best" bad idea : decentering professional casting practices in university productions / Maria Enriquez
- Life first : interdisciplinary placemaking for the theatre / Jen Plants
- Growing applied theatre : critical humanizing pedagogies from the ground up / Beth Murray
- Up close and wide awake : participating in Anna Deveare Smith's social theatre / Stephanie L. Hodde
- Tricksters in the academy : "find the gap, then look for the people" / Susan Russell and Kikora Franklin.