Teaching critical performance theory : in today's theatre classroom, studio, and communities /

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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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Higgins, Jeanmarie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Subjects:
Theater > Study and teaching.
Drama > Study and teaching.
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.

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