Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Young audiences"”.
-
Cry wolf : an opera for young audiences
Cry Wolf is a seventy-minute chamber opera for young audiences based on characters from Aesop’s fables, with a libretto by William Glick. A semi-staged production was premiered in April 2017 at the Cohen New Works Festival at the University of Texas at Austin. The opera tells the story of the ‘Boy …
-
Feet That Don't Touch the Floor: Perceptions in Marketing Theatre for Young Audiences
… and current product. We need to provide the audiences we so cherish with the best entertainment, education, and escape available. Only when we pay closer attention to our audiences, will our under-funded sector receive more attention.</p> <p>As a young child (and no - I do not deny that I am …
-
Travails in limbo - an ethical and aesthetic investigation into new approaches in the presentation of Theatre for Young Audiences
… in the creation of feminist Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA), specifically for early adolescent girls, through two collaborative workshop processes designed to be ethical and respectful of the participants' contribution. The parallels between the research into a new aesthetic for TYA and …
-
Bringing literature to life for sixth grade "reluctant readers": A collaborative, participatory study using Theatre for Young Audiences experiences to address aliteracy
… if an Artistic Director of a Theatre for Young Audiences could lead the transformation of aliterate, sixth grade "reluctant readers" into becoming engaged readers of literature? These students have the basic skills to read, but choose not to read for a variety of reasons. The study used …
-
Using mass media to bring engineering principles to young audiences to inspire interest and pursuit of future engineering or technologically based careers
… and main target demographic of the theme are young, middle-school aged girls. The theme of the show, which has to do with cooking a familiar and typically well-liked (by children) food by using an alternative energy source and engineering design principles. In this show, it is our goal that …
-
Effective factual TV content for young audiences : exploring new approaches to creating history documentaries for 6 - 12 -year - olds in digital UK television
This interdisciplinary original research engages with the fields of TV documentary production, children’s television, historiography, and the pedagogy of history teaching. From this large field, I am taking what is necessary for my research as a practitioner. The purpose of my practice-based PhD …
-
Tya Methodology Twentieth-century Philosophy, And Twenty-first Century Practice: An Examination Of Acting, Directing, And Dramatic Literature
Throughout the twentieth century, theatre for young audiences (TYA), or children's theatre, has been situated as something "other" or different than adult theatre, a kind of theatre--but not really theatre, a construct which opened the door to numerous "how to" philosophies geared specifically …
-
Recalled to Life: Adaptations of Charles Dickens for Children and Young Adults
… of Charles Dickens’s novels for children and young adults, but thus far this body of work has been paid little critical attention. This thesis proposes to change that by analysing a sample of these texts to explore what is ‘Dickensian’ about adaptations of Dickens’s novels for children and …
-
Writes of Spring 2014: Fostering Creativity in Theatre, Education, and Leadership
… power of a theatrical experience. In theatre for young audiences (TYA), creativity is extended from the stage to the classroom, where theatre empowers learning through creative and imaginative teaching. Teaching artists and theatre makers in the field of theatre for young audiences utilize …
-
Theatre for Young America: A History
… and the production history of Theatre for Young America. This thesis will recount the resilience, adaptability, and dedication of a family that has left a lasting impression on Kansas City in the form of a professional theatre for young audiences that recently celebrated its 40th …
-
The representation and re-imagining of the city in mainstream American animated feature films
… providing playful experiences that can keep young audiences focused and happy when informing them of serious ideas. Moreover, these films display a variety of approaches to staging the city, which imply different attitudes in response to tensions and changes in city life. The realistic …
-
Opera Delaware's Family Opera Theatre
… children with the intent to educate and develop young audiences. By examining the forty-year history of Opera Delaware's Family Opera Theatre, the biography of its most influential director, Evelyn Swensson, and four children's operas commissioned and produced by the company, I identify the …
-
Laurie Brooks: a coterie of plays and concepts
… of Laurie Brooks to theatre and Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA). The thesis also focuses on the relationship between Brooks, Jeff Church, and the Coterie Theatre, in Kansas City, Missouri. I held interviews with not only Laurie Brooks, TYA playwright and author, but also theatre artists …
-
TYA Adaptations for the Theatre Educator
… century, adaptations in the field of Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) have been the subject of some debate. While adaptations are currently the most produced type of play by children’s theatre companies and professional theatre organizations, original TYA scripts are the ones that receive the …
-
Revising identification: fairy tales that transform tradition from within
… by encouraging identification (especially in young audiences) with certain roles, producing social conformity, these radical revisions resist social and sexual prescription and in so doing embrace and empower a range of gender and sexual identities.
-
Voces Silenciadas: Victimización Infantil en La Literatura y El Cine Contemporáneos
… films produced between 2010 and 2019 aimed at young audiences. It compares the statistical profiles of victimization with those constructed in selected narratives, analyzing how these works depict minors’ suffering, reflect societal realities, and promote awareness and social change.The study …
-
The Need for Arts Education and Alternative Assessment in Light of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
… Chicago Arts Partnership in Education (CAPE),Young Audiences of Indiana, the Pennsylvania Ballet show positive arts influence outside of the traditional classroom setting. Research by James S. Catterall, J. Burton, R. Horowitz, and H. Abeles on the question of learning transfer taking place …
-
THE CHILD AS DRAMATURG: investigating dramaturgical frameworks steered by child-centric sensibilities
… production specifically catering for early year audiences. The research begins with an investigation of secondary source materials to obtain a working definition of the concepts of child/hood and dramaturg/y in relation to how other artists and art forms have used and presented work to children. …
-
Designerds! : television as a tool for design education and a medium for problem-based learning
… is a television show pilot targeted toward a young audiences that provides an introduction to product design. The pilot documents product development by engaging MIT graduate students in a collaborative, real world design challenge. The semester-long project followed the progress of two groups …
-
Chinese young people's engagement with journalism: perspectives and attitudes towards the news
… in China has created a diverse society where young audiences often suffer from confusing and conflicting values. There is an increasing concern that young people‘s sense of citizenship is in decline, suggesting a lack of awareness that may be indicative of an alienation towards news. The …
Page 1 of 2