{"title":"Race & representation in applied theatre: walking a fine line to salvage empathy & creative imagination","authors":"Y. Kandil","doi":"10.1080/13569783.2023.2205015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2023.2205015","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the evolving nature of how race and difference are represented in creative applied theatre work in classroom and community-based settings. The author uses several examples of performances and workshops she’s attended to ask important questions that point to the tensions percolating in our discipline around who gets to tell a story, how, and in what way this telling shapes perceptions and notions of the Other. At the heart of this inquiry is a desire to salvage creativity, play, and imagination in an environment that is increasingly fraught with cancel culture, virtue signalling, and identity politics.","PeriodicalId":186209,"journal":{"name":"Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124621140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Curriculum violence in drama education","authors":"Robyn Shenfield, Monica Prendergast","doi":"10.1080/13569783.2023.2219617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2023.2219617","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines a concept called ‘curriculum violence’ that offers a contribution to the field of curriculum studies, in deepening both teachers’ and scholars’ awareness of the ways in which our best intentions in the drama classroom may lead to potential harm for our students. We present two drama structures, both Canadian; the first by Carole Miller and Juliana Saxton and the second by Larry Swartz and Debbie Nyman. We then discuss what we view as a High risk issue; a new provincial curriculum to be implemented in Alberta, that we view as causing potential curriculum violence to students.","PeriodicalId":186209,"journal":{"name":"Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117227050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Representation, empathy, and their intersections","authors":"Y. Kandil, T. Prentki","doi":"10.1080/13569783.2023.2234313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2023.2234313","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT When questions about the validity of our creative choices begin to arise in our classrooms and rehearsal spaces, we feel the need to justify and clarify the integrity of these choices. This editorial looks at the impetus behind our call for proposals on the issues of race, representation and their intersections with empathy. What has come to light in the last few years, and since the #MeToo movement, that has impacted how our art is being perceived and consumed? What have we learned and what have we sacrificed in order to merge with these new and contentious discussions?","PeriodicalId":186209,"journal":{"name":"Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125459619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The fear of cultural appropriation is the beginning of wokeness in learning? reflections from teaching in Canada","authors":"Taiwo Afolabi","doi":"10.1080/13569783.2023.2219210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2023.2219210","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 The current heightened sensitivity around history, colonisation and the aftermath of the socio-political and cultural ethos of the world can create in many people the fear of cultural appropriation and misrepresentation. This fear can affect the ability to imagine and play in certain learning settings, especially in devising performances, socially engaged theatre, and other arts-based explorations. However, what happens when participants choose not to engage due to the abovementioned fears? This paper considers the differing ways in which fear of cultural appropriation and misrepresentation deterred students from learning while teaching in Canada.","PeriodicalId":186209,"journal":{"name":"Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128435352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Footprints without feet: theatre as recourse to collective memory in Kashmir","authors":"Tanveer Ajsi","doi":"10.1080/13569783.2023.2230150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2023.2230150","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines the work of Kashmiri theatre-maker Arshad Mushtaq in the context of the political turmoil in Kashmir. It argues that Mushtaq's theatre practice challenges India's attempt to assimilate Kashmir into its national cultural framework. Focusing on three of Mushtaq's plays rooted in collective memory, the paper examines how his work resists cultural appropriation and disrupts the notion of normalcy imposed by the state. It discusses how Mushtaq's work dislodges state-approved cultural conditions, using a unique blend of politics and aesthetics to create a powerful voice of protest.","PeriodicalId":186209,"journal":{"name":"Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126560873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘And yet’ … Critical questions, complicated conversations: curating a TYA curriculum","authors":"Belarie Zatzman","doi":"10.1080/13569783.2023.2232734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2023.2232734","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Can critical questions and complicated conversations addressing issues of representation, difference, and witnessing be positioned at the centre of a TYA curriculum? This article examines contemporary, issue-based and culturally specific TYA scripts. In addition, a collection of aesthetic representations are offered as dynamic prompts to help further provoke dialogue across difference, and to invite different forms of knowing and knowledge into our shared TYA spaces. These curated sources are considered alongside the wisdom of Elie Wiesel, Johnston’s ‘Slow Curation’, Lauzon’s ‘Cultural Intimacy’, and Rothberg’s ‘Multidirectional Memory’ concepts in the effort to welcome and sustain relationships across multiple and challenging contexts.","PeriodicalId":186209,"journal":{"name":"Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126134498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shared uncertainties: mapping digital teaching artistry in youth performing arts during COVID-19","authors":"Bryoni Trezise, Nitin Vengurlekar, Malcolm Whittaker","doi":"10.1080/13569783.2023.2227579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2023.2227579","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":186209,"journal":{"name":"Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122339566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A short essay on empathy, drama, and a new curriculum","authors":"T. Prentki","doi":"10.1080/13569783.2023.2227126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2023.2227126","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay proposes that it is time to redesign educational curricula to take account of recent discoveries in the neuroscience of the human brain. The identification of mirror neurons has drawn attention to the importance of empathy as a determiner of action and their function is replicated in communication between actors, characters, and audiences. Brecht's epic theatre aesthetic enables the framing of empathy in a way that sets it in an historical context. This process I term critical empathy; the basis for a new curriculum grounded in narrative strategies that put drama at their core.","PeriodicalId":186209,"journal":{"name":"Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128375191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching and learning for neuro and physical diversity","authors":"A. McNamara","doi":"10.1080/13569783.2023.2216639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2023.2216639","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":186209,"journal":{"name":"Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132796573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Therapeutic aspects in the autobiographical/autoethnographic performance of three women addressing their experience of communal sleeping as children in the kibbutz","authors":"Meira Medina-Junge, Susana Pendzik","doi":"10.1080/13569783.2023.2220652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2023.2220652","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":186209,"journal":{"name":"Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131726058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}