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warm-up activities, games, and scene structures to orient improvisers to
particular aspects of practice (e.g., “Keep your eye on the ball!”; “Share
the stage picture!”). Similarly, Lisa sees side-coaching as a key instructional
practice in teacher education, and she uses side-coaching to provide feedback
to prospective teachers during their enactments of practice in her English
methods course. Lisa designed a self-study to examine and evaluate her sidecoaching practice and to develop theory about side-coaching as a teachereducation tool. The findings in this study have implications for supporting
practitioners in expanding their repertoire of feedback strategies. Session
participants will hear an overview of Lisa’s research design and findings,
observe or participate in a side-coaching demonstration, and collectively
reflect on the ways in which this study could be expanded for future research
and teacher professional learning.
Ethical Praxis Discourse: Theatre, Education, Therapy, and Activism
Chair: Andrew Gaines
Presenters: David T. Montgomery, New York University; Juliana Saxton, The
University of Sydney; Ashley Forman, Arena Stage
Location: Atrium 2nd – Grays Peak A
At the intersections of aesthetics/instrumentality and theory/practice, the
terrain can shift unpredictably, and we risk undermining the very populations
we aim to empower. Our discussion aims to gain firmer footing at this
junction: When does engagement become too emotional or too personal?
How do we distinguish teaching, healing, and advocacy in drama/theatre?
How can we train facilitators and artists to ethically address the needs of atrisk populations? We will disrupt the traditional panel format using Weaver’s
radically democratic “Long Table,” where discourse is our food, and the menu
is up to you.
The Benefits and Challenges of Technical Theatre and Education for Ages
8 to 18
Chair: Andrew D. Harris, StageOne Family Theatre
Presenters: Corey Harrison, StageOne Family Theatre
Location: Denver 3rd-Mt. Yale
In the last year StageOne Family Theatre has included its production staff as
part of its education faculty. In the summer of 2013, production staff members
led a technical theatre intensive for students 12 and up, and during the 20132014 school year, students as young as third grade had the opportunity to
join StageOne’s technical theatre troupe, an after-school offering of Lincoln
Performing Arts Elementary school. This session will not only describe these
two programs, but also reflect on the opportunities and challenges that
come from providing a technical theatre curriculum to a broad age range of
students from elementary school to high school. How can StageOne continue
to support its production staff, and serve the local community through the
practical opportunities in technical theatre?
Traversing the Borders of Division: Deconstructing Devised Theatre
Chair: Gustave Weltsek, Ivy Tech Community College/Indiana University
Presenters: Eric Love, Indiana University
Location: Lobby Level-Mt. Sopris A
Our workshop explores the intersections and departures inherent in Diversity
Education, Applied Theatre/Ethnodrama, Student Development and Social
Work. This hands on workshop explores how to make apparent what may
happen during these emergent experiences with a diverse group. The
launching point is a collaborative emergent theatre piece based upon the life
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We deconstruct the complexities of social justice
and oppression while working across and within socio-cultural metaphoric and
literal borders with a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate college
students from the Mid-West. Our session intends to further the dialogue on
the ways participants traverse the terrain of power and equity while traversing
very real personal and social terrain while making meaning within an emergent
collaborative theatre process.
Taking it to the Streets with District Shakespeare
Chair: Jim Gagne, Shakespeare Theatre Company
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Presenters: Samantha Wyer, Shakespeare Theatre Company
Location: Denver 3rd – Mt. Harvard
What do Shakespeare, Eminem and District of Columbia Public School System
have in common? Since 2011 the answer has been Shakespeare Theatre
Company’s, District Shakespeare program. District Shakespeare began with
the challenge to engage every DC Public Middle and High School with
Shakespeare Theatre Company in a single school year. Today, thousands
of DC students have seen professional productions and over 100 in-school
workshops have been conducted. In this session participants will learn about
the programs creation and the data that has been collected over the past three
years, explore how STC teaching artists link rap and iambic pentameter to
engage students, and participate in a dialog on how the District Shakespeare
model may inform and influence their own work. District Shakespeare has been
an enormously rewarding and successful journey; come and hear the full story
of the program and how you can continue the journey in your own community.
Navigating the Playbuilding Process with Middle School Youth
Chair: Kevin Ray, Creative Arts Team
Presenters: Joey Schultz, Creative Arts Team
Location: Denver 3rd – Mt. Oxford
This session will explore ways in which practitioners can support middle school
youth to share their ideas, navigate group dynamics, and use theater to say
something about the world they live in. In this hands-on workshop, attendees
will identify the joys and challenges they face when working with this age
group and, through a series of practical activities, encounter strategies used by
the CAT Junior Youth Theatre which support youth to create problem posing
theater from a participant-centered appr