{"title":"Performance-Based Data Analysis: a Dynamic Dialogue Between Ethnography and Performance-Making Processes","authors":"Jane Bird","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2011.11649529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2011.11649529","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article focuses on the processes of constructing an ethnographic performance. As a participant researcher, I investigated the working processes of a research group that I was part of as we constructed a performance ethnography in which we developed a dialogic and embodied method of analysing and exploring ethnographic data. The study demonstrated how a performance-based approach to data analysis, using devices such as improvisations, symbolic action and dramatic elements, enhanced the understanding, interpretation and representation of ethnographic data. This is discussed and illustrated in this article.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"31 1","pages":"35 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14452294.2011.11649529","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72399558","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":"How To Get Along With Others: Children Exploring Issues of Racial-Ethnic Identity in Multicultural and Multiethnic Communities through Drama","authors":"E. Fitzpatrick","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2011.11649544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2011.11649544","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper explores the use of drama as an interdisciplinary methodology to understand the construction of a positive racial-ethnic identity in response to the criticisms and concerns of Multiculturalism as a practice. It draws on a recent study where the focus was on the stories of children who represented a hegemonic white population in one primary classroom in New Zealand.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"104 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80162578","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":"Making Home Work: Theatre-making with Older Adults in Residential Care","authors":"H. Nicholson","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2011.11649541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2011.11649541","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper reflects on the significance of artistic practice with older adults in residential care settings, asking what ‘home’ means to residents living with dementia. To consider how cultural stereotypes of ageing as narratives of loss and decline might be challenged, this paper draws on a recent production On Ageing that was staged at the Young Vic Theatre in London. This play dramatised gerontologist Tom Kirkwood's view that ageing is not a process of deterioration but accumulation, which determines how the body ages physically. Socially, we also accumulate ‘stuff’ as we grow older and home is often defined by the emotional significance of possessions. So what happens when, in old age, people's physical space shrinks?. The research draws on the principles of person-centred care and non-humanist theories of materiality to debate how home is constructed through the imagination and in the material, spatial and temporal practices of everyday life. In considering how and why creative activity with older adults can help to change a residential care home from an institution to a domestic space, it suggests that the arts have a significant role to play in end of life care.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"19 1","pages":"47 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73840130","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":"Why and with Whom? A Study of Young People as Theatre-Goers in Australia","authors":"Christine Sinclair, R. Adams","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2011.11649531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2011.11649531","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article is an overview of the literature informing the four year Australian Research Council linkage project, TheatreSpace: Accessing the Cultural Conversation, a large-scale longitudinal study into young people's attendance at mainstream theatre1. The article provides a brief overview of the research project and an examination of a range of the key principles which have allowed the researchers access to understanding a complex web of data. The article explores the link between the education sector and young people as theatre-goers, considering the place of theatre and theatre-going in the curriculum, the role of teachers as mediators and facilitators of the theatre experience. The question of how young people ‘read’ the theatre experience both within and beyond the curriculum is a point of particular focus.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"71 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84241724","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":"‘Who Told You There Was Meaning?’: Mimesis and Narrative Complexity","authors":"D. Kelman","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2011.11649527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2011.11649527","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper reports on longitudinal research into a partnership between a youth arts organisation and an inner city secondary school, using case study and reflective practitioner methodological approaches. Earlier projects in this same field of study explored a mimetic model of theatre practice, based on young people's dramatised stories that culturally diverse teenage participants described both as ‘real’ and delivering moral messages to their peers and wider community. In 2009 a play-building process, combining text from Shakespeare's King Lear with original material inspired by Beckett's Waiting For Godot and a devised contemporary narrative, was used to generate a new play called Searching For Lear. This work wove tragic and absurdist perspectives into a contemporary young person's street story. In this article, the project is analysed using literary theory and an analysis of mimetic processes. The play utilised a model of mimesis that complicated the relationship between the audience and the dramatic narrative, interrogating the basis on which dramaturgical meaning was constructed. These theoretical perspectives are considered in relation to research data, revealing participant and community audience perceptions of this work and its significance in its local cultural context.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"5 1","pages":"20 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90107846","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":"Analysing Dramatic Structures Within Improvised Forms—The Extended Playwright Function Framework","authors":"J. Dunn","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2011.11649528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2011.11649528","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Improvised texts are developed for varied purposes; however, little attention has been given to the way improvisations are spontaneously structured. In this article, a playwright function framework designed for the analysis of a wide range of improvisational contexts is described. This analytical framework draws on an earlier model originally developed to understand the collaborative structuring occurring within preadolescent dramatic play—now extended to make it more applicable across a wider range of improvised forms, including process drama and long-form improvisation. Drawing upon the work of key theorists and practitioners from the field of improvisation, the original framework grows from four playwright functions to nine. Discussion about the value and possible applications for this framework is also included.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"21 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76770165","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":"Re-Clothing the Emperor: The Dead and Aliveness of Practice-Based Research in Performance","authors":"J. Freeman","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2011.11649533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2011.11649533","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article questions whether practice-based submissions for PhD are chiefly problematised by their own immediacy and that issues of dissemination are secondary to issues of time. In suggesting research is linked to the unruly rhythms of creative practice, the article picks its own route through embodiment, institutional acceptance, truth, lies and punctuation, theatre influence, and tensions between permanence and ephemerality.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"186 1","pages":"101 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77032583","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":"Asking For Trouble: Ethics, Agenda and Personal Storytelling in a Women's FGM Health Project","authors":"J. Penton","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2011.11649543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2011.11649543","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article reflects upon a project that was run in partnership between the author and an Australian health agency in 2010. Nine women's stories, of their personal experiences of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), were told for an educational CD aimed at developing a cultural competency around the issue. I facilitated the women's storytelling and recorded these testimonies. Throughout this process I discovered that the design of the project and the agenda of creating the CD often conflicted with the complex requirements of the participant group. As a result, this project is used as a point of reflection for the ethics of personal storytelling and a discussion regarding the friction between agenda and need.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"s1-7 1","pages":"75 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85978897","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":"Australian Drama in 2010: Predictions and Preferences","authors":"T. Millett, Jody Raphael","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2011.11649534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2011.11649534","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A questionnaire was completed in 1996 by 215 drama educators in Australia. Respondents rated the likelihood that 51 specific changes in drama education would occur by the year 2010, and also indicated whether they supported such changes. The predictions represented some directions that the profession might be heading as well as reflecting some past trends.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"111 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77071756","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":"Releasing the Imagination","authors":"M. Greene","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2011.11649524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2011.11649524","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper, Maxine Greene illuminates the concept of an aesthetic education within her discussion of the work of New York based dance company STREB. Elizabeth Streb's daredevil, postmodern acrobatic performance piece provides this paper with the metaphor of the wall—from the glass wall through which the STREB dancers literally ‘break through’. The idea of arts education is to challenge the wall, not passively walk away—to take the risks, to ask the questions, to be willing to engage.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"61 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86554546","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}