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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"devised theatre"”.
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The Theatre That Will Be: 'Devised Theatre' Methodologies and Aesthetics in Training and Practice
… thesis details my process of teaching Devising Theatre, a course of my own design, in Spring of 2005 and Fall of 2005. I address my curricular development from semester to semester (readings, assignments, assessments) as well as the students' responses to the material. Additionally, I discuss my …
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A Tempest in the Halls: Intersections of Social Justice, Student Collaboration, and Devised Theatre
… learning agency. Further research in high school theatre arts is needed to construct a stronger literature base that speaks to the complexities of course curriculum and the complicated relationships between students, teachers, and dramatic learning spaces.</p>
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Accessible theatre: the application of human ethology and innate neurobiological systems to full-masked devised theatre practice
… with the challenges of devising a full-masked theatre performance that is largely accessible to audiences of every age, social background and culture. The study is original and contributes to knowledge in two distinct ways; it is to this researcher’s knowledge the only such research that …
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How the lived experiences of black women can be understood through devised theatre informed by psychophysical actor training: an adaptation of the Tadashi Suzuki actor training technique
In this study I aim to use my body as a tool to derive themes for use in performance making and to underpin this in theory. I focus on aspects of Tadashi Suzuki (1986) actor training (referred to as Suzuki training), free writing and the body. I use black feminism, cognitive neuroscience and body …
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Grey zones: performances, perspectives, and possibilities in Kashmir
This doctoral project investigates the use of theatre practice to engage across the'victim'/'perpetrator' binary in the Kashmir valley; a binary that is framed in this project as a tripartite division between Civil Society, Militants/Ex-Militants, and the Indian Armed Forces. Using Primo Levi's …
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A journey back home through a mask for the 21st century : the legacy of Commedia dell'Arte in postdramatic theatre with particular focus on the centrality of the actor in devised performance : a practice-as-research PhD based on three years of research, culminating in this thesis, an ensemble devised performance A Floating Caravan Under the Moon (2015/16) and a solo piece Home/Finding Home (2017/18)
… core principles and Lehmann’s postdramatic theatre. Rather than a reinterpretation or re-contextualisation, my work can be described as a reinvention of Commedia Masks through a rediscovery of Commedia dell’Arte’s principles, as discussed by Flaminio Scala in his prologue to Il Finto Marito …
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Theatrical bodies and madness: a case study of a theatre playground in a South African forensic psychiatric hospital
This study analyses, over a three-year period, a theatre programme with forensic psychiatric patients and staff at Fort England psychiatric hospital in Grahamstown/Makhanda, South Africa. Framed as a ‘theatrical playground', programme sessions were structured around theatre games, improvisation and …
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Eco-Theatre and New Media: Devising Toward Transnational Balance
… new imperatives for the arts, and namely for the Theatre. Most significantly, the dissertation attempts to traverse the shadow-lands, between our ecologies and our technologies, exploring those essential points of convergence in the borderlands where Eco-Theatre and New Media must find a precious …
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Hallways. Place and object between body and narrative: scenographic approaches to devising theatre.
… device between body and narrative in devising theatre. A focus of this work is scenographics as a mediating moment between traumatised body and painful narrative; using objects and place as a means of safely exploring and un/recovering memory to make theatre. The research also explores wider …
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A genealogy of the embodied theatre practices of Suzanne Bing and Michael Chekhov: the use of play in actor training
… significance of the ways in which the Embodied Theatre practices of Suzanne Bing (1885-1967) and Michael Chekhov (1891-1955) utilised forms of what I term Embodied Play as a constituent part of their actor training processes. A methodology is developed in the introduction which draws on …
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Our stories heal -- mind, body and soul : pivoting to a healing-centered engagement in an applied theatre residency
… facilitation experience during aa 9-week applied theatre residency at a group home facility in central, Texas. The researcher uses reflective practitioner and autoethnographic analysis to examine coded data representing how she pivoted (in relation to all four pivots) as a facilitator throughout …