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{"title":"A review of The Year We Thought About Love: Behind the Scenes of the Nation’s Longest Running LGBTQ Youth Theater, directed by Ellen Brodsky","authors":"S. Chappell","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2016.1226088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2016.1226088","url":null,"abstract":"“Being a theater director and a youth worker are not that different. We are there to create a play, and we are there to support the youth in dealing with the stuff they are going through every sing...","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":"184 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2016.1226088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59418673","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":"Three decade drama/theatre and (for/with/by/about) youth crowd-sourced timeline","authors":"Beth Murray, Lorenzo Garcia, J. Saldaña, Elizabeth Brendel Horn, M. McAvoy, Jim DeVivo, Tamara Goldbogen, J. Hipp, Cecily O’Neill, J. Saxton, Monica Prendergast, A. Jensen, Peter B. Duffy","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2016.1234273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2016.1234273","url":null,"abstract":"What events, patterns, or people have shaped the field or marked its milestones since Youth Theatre Journal’s (YTJ’s) first issue in 1986? We put the call out to YTJ readers, this rich array of ent...","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":"136 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2016.1234273","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59419075","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 SceSam Project—Interactive dramaturgies in performing arts for children","authors":"Lisa Nagel, L. Høvik","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2016.1225611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2016.1225611","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT SceSam—Interactive dramaturgies in performing arts for children is a Norwegian artistic research project that has examined interactivity as an artistic strategy in performing arts for children aged 0–12. The project has consisted of theatre performances, research, seminars, and a festival, and the investigations have been both theoretical and practical. In this article, the authors present and discuss the SceSam Project as a contribution to the field of artistic research in a European context. The project bridges artistic practice and theoretical perspectives on interactive dramaturgies in the context of cultural politics, interdisciplinarity, and participatory art. The article gives a field analysis (part one) and presentation (part two) of the SceSam Project. The SceSam Working Model (part three) provides six dramaturgical categories spanning from closed dramatic form on one end to open improvised form on the other, and offers an analytical tool for discussions on the aesthetic and social value of participation and interaction. The project points to the general need for formal education in performing arts for children in the broader perspectives of social art, drama pedagogy, and children’s culture (part four). The authors conclude that art and research can productively interact in the process of examining specific dramaturgical moments of children’s participation.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":"149 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2016.1225611","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59418430","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":"Drama as research: Realizing the potential of drama in education as a research methodology","authors":"J. Norris","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2016.1227189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2016.1227189","url":null,"abstract":"The landscape of educational research has undergone considerable change within the last thirty years, so much so that the arts are now being looked upon more seriously as a means of collecting, analyzing, and disseminating research data (Diamond and Mullen 1999; Ellis and Bochner 1996; Walker, Pick, and Macdonald 1991). Those in the educational research community are turning to the fields of visual arts, music, and drama for assistance in expanding their repertoire of meaning making and representing data (Finley and Knowles 1995). We, in drama education, have much to offer education research from our wealth of experience in drama as both a process of meaning making and as a presentational/representational form. Eisner (1997) claims that while Campbell and Stanley’s (1966) monograph on quasiexperimental and experimental research “represented a methodological ideal for educational research” (4), by the mid-1970s influential researchers steeped in quantitative research were beginning to explore naturalistic methods. He states that, since the late 1980s, “qualitative research as a category in AERA [American Educational Research Association] programs has been the fifth or sixth largest classification for papers presented at its annual meetings” (4) and “is now the favored approach for doing educational research among doctoral students [at Stanford]” (5). Not only is qualitative research accepted, but Eisner believes the days of writing “extensive justifications” for such endeavors are gone. As the educational research community has accepted the tools of the anthropologist and ethnographer in the past quarter century, its members have expanded their research repertoire to include both quantitative research that primarily uses “number” to collect and analyze data and qualitative research that primarily uses “word” to convey meaning. Bogdan and Biklen (1982), Carr and Kernmis (1986), Connelly and Clandinin (1988), Eisner and Peshkin (1990), Schon (1983), van Manen (1990), and Walker (1985) have all published qualitative research texts that have been used to guide educational research practices. In the last five to ten years, however, educational research has expanded its forms beyond those of word and number. According to McLeod (1988), there are five, not two, major ways of making meaning. She claims that in education word is used in the teaching of all subjects focused on language arts; number in mathematics, science, and music; image with the visual arts;","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":"122 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2016.1227189","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59418836","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":"Producing meanings about cultural differences and identities in Canadian TYA: Three case studies","authors":"H. F. Fitzsimmons Frey","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2016.1158020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2016.1158020","url":null,"abstract":"One of the major issues today in Canadian theatre for young audiences (TYA), and perhaps in TYA throughout the Americas, is how to stage difference—differences like ability, non-traditional family structures, sexual orientation, religion, age, language, and culture. Recently, I’ve been researching issues related to performing cultural difference in TYA. Through the lens of three different descriptive case studies of TYA productions, this article draws attention to a few of the many complex issues concerning performing immigrant and indigenous cultural differences and identities. Beneath the Banyan Tree was created as a collaboration between Toronto’s Theatre Direct and Lata Pada, a bharata natyam dancer and choreographer; Beneath the Ice was written by playwright Eva Colmers in Edmonton in connection with the Inuit community of Kangiqsujuaq in Nunavik; and Raven Meets the Monkey King was created in Vancouver, and the original cast included indigenous performer Nyla Carpentier. Together, the plays highlight some of the possibilities and potential challenges of creating and performing work for young audiences that explicitly engages with non-dominant cultural identities. Enabling child audiences to see and hear people from non-dominant Canadian cultures is central to why many Canadian TYA artists I’ve interviewed argue that cultural diversity on stage is essential. For example, Filipina-Canadian Theatre Artist Nina Lee Aquino asserts, “we need our stories to be visible, present, and loud... they need to be woven into the Canadian landscape of stories” (Aquino, personal communication, December 13, 2013). When Aquino says “our” stories, she claims a particular non-dominant cultural heritage, but when she says “woven into the Canadian landscape,” she acknowledges the incredible diversity and complexity that makes up Canada and, by extension, culturally heterogeneous Canadian audiences. Theatre scholars Ric Knowles and Ingrid Mündel suggest that performance analysis should focus less on how a performance reflects racial, cultural, and linguistic differences in Canada, and more on what meanings are produced through intercultural performance (Knowles and Mündel 2009, iii). Meanings about culture and cultural identities that theatre produces are potentially provocative, complex, and/or counter to dominant discourses, and while Knowles and Mündel focus on spectatorship and meanings in a performance event, I’d like to extend the idea of “producing” meaning to include the entire process of creating performance, a process Roger Bedard argues is complex and multifaceted in TYA (Bedard 2011, 284). Thinking about producing meanings about cultural identities through theatrical performance, and the broad processes and multiple elements of creation, brings Dominique Rivière’s observations into","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":"81 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2016.1158020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59417877","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":"Zoot Suit: Latino/a youth inclusion and exclusion on Texas stages","authors":"Roxanne L. Schroeder-Arce","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2015.1088911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2015.1088911","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Though Latino/as currently comprise the majority of Texas public school students, Latino/a bodies and stories are underrepresented and excluded in school theatre programs throughout the state. In 2011, the Texas Education Agency reported that Hispanic students accounted for 50.2 percent of the state’s 4.9 million children enrolled in public schools, including pre-kindergarten and early childhood education. However, the theatre produced in school theatre programs representing Latino stories and characters is staggeringly disproportionate to the number of Latino youth attending Texas public schools. In May 2014, Edinburg North High School, the one school from the Rio Grande Valley included in the state meet, presented their production of Zoot Suit at the competition, which takes place annually on the University of Texas at Austin campus. This article explores Latino/a youth inclusion and exclusion and how the inclusion of this production of Zoot Suit has opened the door to more Latino stories being noticed, valued, and told throughout the Rio Grande Valley and the state of Texas.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":"35 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2015.1088911","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59417286","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":"Keeping the stage alive: The impact of teachers on young people’s engagement with theatre","authors":"M. Stinson, B. Burton","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2015.1090516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2015.1090516","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT School-age students rarely attend live theatre events unless they have been organized as part of a curricular, or co-curricular, excursion facilitated by teachers. This article reports on the findings of the TheatreSpace project, a three-year study of young people’s attendance at theatre performances, and concentrates on a discussion of the impact of teachers on theatregoing. The authors propose that a teachers’ influence is threefold: as model, as mentor, and as guide. The article also discusses the impact of the dedicated study of theatre within the curriculum on the experience of a live theatre event.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":"68 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2015.1090516","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59417372","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":"Ludoteca Ayotzinapa: A project of resistance and hope","authors":"A. Guerrero","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2016.1158021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2016.1158021","url":null,"abstract":"As a seasoned theatre artist but a relative novice to theatre for young audiences (TYA), I found in the International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People (ASSITEJ) and in International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network (ITYARN) an extraordinary world of knowledge, friendship, and commitment. My theatre career in the TYA field has a clear before and after ASSITEJ, for the better. In sharing this reflective article, I step more deeply into the global youth-serving theatre community to chronicle an informal action-research (Schön 1983) inquiry, but more so to shed light on the complexities and potential of the arts and a community enduring tragic loss, with hope. This is one of many efforts in support and remembrance of the forty-three missing students movement, from Ayotzinapa, Tixtla, Guerrero, Mexico. In August 2015, I directed What Are Tyrants Made Of? (Di Cesar, Eldridge, and McGarry 2007). The play is an adaptation of the novel, Hitler’s Daughter, by Australian writer Jackie French (2004). The theatre version of Hitler’s Daughter was premiered in 2006 by Monkey Baa, an Australian company for young audiences based in Sydney. The Mexican version was possible thanks to the Monkey Baa collaboration. In the play, a group of boys and girls takes World War II as a starting point to create a story based on reality, history, and a little fiction. When it is proposed that including Hitler’s daughter as a character might give an interesting twist to the history, the children must grapple with another facet about the war and the adult world. The play unfolds in two different moments, one in Germany during the last years of World War II, and the other one in the present daily lives of the children who ask their parents about the Holocaust and the crimes committed by the Nazis. The youth also ask themselves if children are responsible for the acts of their parents. In the play, boys and girls question their parents about today’s atrocities, pressing to know how much parents are opposed to injustices and if they are actively fighting against them. This political play, performed by children and teenagers, invites the audience to think about how adults educate and influence the thoughts of children, as well as the impulses behind their social engagement or disengagement. This project was presented by Guerrilla, a Mexico-City-based theatre group of children and teenagers established in 2012. The group’s mission stretches beyond producing plays, seeking to also model how education, community, and participatory work with young persons equips them to speak about diverse topics from their own perspective, not only as recipients or spectators but as artists and creators. Guerrilla started this process in 2014, and finally, in late summer 2015,","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":"88 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2016.1158021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59418050","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 review of Theatre, Teens, Sex Ed: Are We There Yet? by Jan Selman and Jane Heather","authors":"Julie Woods-Robinson","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2016.1158024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2016.1158024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":"100 - 101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2016.1158024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59418277","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 review of Theatre for Youth Third Space: Performance, Democracy, and Community Cultural Development, by Stephani Etheridge Woodson","authors":"Cortney McEniry","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2016.1158027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2016.1158027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":"104 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2016.1158027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59418510","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}