D A I LY SCHE DU L E
Devising a Reflective and Creative Inquiry Approach to Acting for
Students
Chair: Gai Jones, Theatre Sage
Location: Denver 2nd – Maroon Peak
This session is an experiential approach to the exploration of the acting
process which addresses the essential questions and enduring understandings
for middle and high school students. Creating, studying, learning, innovating,
making bold choices, committing, experiencing thoughts and feelings,
engaging in reflective inquiry, and reading literature are the personal process
that are covered in this workshop. Each participant is asked to commit to the
creative and reflective experience of studying acting. Ongoing inquiry involves
the devising questions, making notes, and revisiting the text with new insights.
Critical thinking includes being constructive with creation, making adjustments,
rehearsing again and again, and then making more adjustments. Engagement
of the student’s thoughts and feelings will be the goal of this discovery.
The Reflective Teaching Artist: Mapping a personal journey within a
growing global field
Chair: Kathryn M. Dawson, University of Texas at Austin
Presenters: Dan Kelin
Location: Atrium 2nd – Grays Peak B
The pedagogy and practice of the Teaching Artist continues to be under
theorized as well as underpaid. How then can Teaching Artists find renewed
energy, agency, and advocacy in their chosen career? This session provides an
opportunity to engage in thorough and reaffirming reflection. We will explore:
How does the title, Teaching Artist, inform and define our work? How might
reflection and reflexivity deepen and expand personal practice? Building from
five core concepts: intentionality, artistic perspective, quality, assessment, and
praxis - this interactive workshop will share stories from and offer strategies for
the working Teaching Artist. Come ready to play, listen, explore and reflect.
Applied Documentary Theatre as Historiography: The White Rose Society
Chair: Allison Metz, Grand Valley State University
Presenters: Erika Hughes, Arizona State University
Location: Atrium 2nd – Pikes Peak
In order to think critically about ways in which power structures are historically
reproduced and to practice speaking out against oppression, we will use
educational drama methods to explore issues of authority and resistance,
specifically related to the Holocaust. Participants will use Boal based
activities to consider notions of power before launching into devised theatre
practice. Historical pamphlets from the “White Rose Society” will provide the
building blocks of the modified Radio Theatre pieces the group will create.
The workshop will end with reflective dialogue about using drama to enact
responsible resistance.
New Play Development in Schools: National Playwrights in Local Settings
Chair: John Dilworth Newman, Utah Valley University
Presenters: Nathan Criman, Mountain View High School, Adam Slee, DaVinci
Academy
Location: Denver 3rd – Mt. Wilson
This fishbowl session will begin with a brief (5 minute) description of new
play development in high schools, referring participants to the two page
handout. The handout will list the potential needs of a play and possible ways
those needs may be met through a development process with a professional
playwright in a secondary school. It will also list some of the basic ends
and means of a development process. After the introduction, there will
be two 20-minute demonstrations with a secondary school theatre director
workshopping a script with an ensemble of secondary school students. The
work with the playwright and students will begin during the prior session so
that the observers can see the work in progress. Each demonstration will be
followed by a 10-minute discussion between the playwright, teacher, actors,
and observers.
Using the National Standards for Arts Education in Theatre Classrooms
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and other Educational Settings
Chair: Amy Jensen, Brigham Young University
Presenters: Betsy Quinn, Evanston School District 65; Julia Ashworth, Brigham
Young Univeristy; James Palmarini, Educational Theatre Association; Mary
Shuttler, University of Northern Colorado; Gustave Weltsek, University of
Indiana
Location: Denver 3rd – Mt. Columbia
This session will explore ways to use the 2014 National Core Arts Standards in
theatre classrooms and other educational theatre settings. Classroom teachers,
university professors, teaching artists and policy researchers will share insights
and practical ways to implement the standards into primary and secondary
theatre settings. We will also discuss using the standards as an advocacy tool
in a variety of settings.
The Journey of the Artifact: