CONFERENCE SCHEDULE | 11
Healing and Community-Centered Devising with Youth Tracks : Applied Theatre , Youth Theatre Presenters : Gabrielle Lewis & Renita James Location : Currents ( Concourse ) – Swissotel Chicago
In this participatory devising workshop , participants will experience an excerpt of a healing and community centered theatre-making process . Developed from the youth-centered research of UT Austin graduate students Renita James and Gabrielle Lewis , this sequence will highlight the ways we can scaffold devising with youth that empowers young people to show up in the rehearsal room as their full selves .
Illuminating The Lottery : Exploring Shirley Jackson ’ s Classic Through Stage Pictures and Light Tracks : High School , PreK-8 , Youth Theatre Presenter : Jeremy Guidry Location : Alpine 2 ( Lucerne Level ) – Swissotel Chicago
Immerse yourself in a multifaceted professional development experience as we journey through Shirley Jackson ' s timeless short story , " The Lottery ." Discover the art of storytelling through tableaux and lighting design , while empowering students to make choices and express their voices in this dynamic exploration of narrative and drama . Engage , explore , and illuminate the power of multiple storytelling forms in the classroom .
Reimagining Dynamics between Classroom Spaces and Movements : Arts through Storytelling Tracks : Applied Theatre , Professional Theatre , Youth Theatre Presenter : Shuyu Lin Location : Ticino - 310 ( 3 rd Floor ) – Swissotel Chicago
Modern technology and spatial alignment have dramatically changed how our body functions and reacts to our surroundings . As we often find ourselves only standing or sitting in stiffly vertical positions , Liu and I , as passionate dancers and educators , wonder how we can facilitate our students to open up their physical possibilities to fundamentally renovate our ways of storytelling in theatre led by breath , extensions and compressions , moving instincts , physical dynamics , and undiscovered spatial dimensions of any given learning spaces . We believe in the significance and power of authentic storytelling in movements , and vice versa . Stories fuel movements ; and movement realizes stories . Through this workshop , we aspire to provide an approachable framework of movement structures and accessible instructional vocabularies that invites both theatre educators and students to incorporate their authentic energies and personal narratives into the classroom . This journey will guide our participants through “ Reimagine Our Body ” and “ Retouch the Space ” where participants go on a wild fun journey to connect with their body parts and explore the space to convey their personal stories , followed by a 15-minute unpacking discussion . Creative movements in unity with our learning space can not only contribute to theatre classrooms but also transform how educators approach their content area like ESOL , Social Studies , Science , and so forth . Liu and I hope this workshop can propose an open-ended structure for all educators to fill in with their teaching goals and unique personal experiences .
Teaching Drama As an Act of Abolition Track : Research / Scholarship Presenter : Mateo Hernandez Location : Neuchatel - 315 ( 3 rd Floor ) – Swissotel Chicago
Self-described “ drama school doctoral-program dropout ” Ruth Wilson Gilmore writes of drama , informed by Marx , that the labor required of the work of drama is , like geography , “ making history , making worlds .” That core abolitionist idea of imagining and creating worlds beyond the carceral state and prison system that now inundates our current reality in the U . S . is one of the strengths that drama and performance can offer to students of abolition . As the authors of " Abolition . Feminism . Now ." write , “ abolition is by necessity speculative ” and thus requires a creativity that engages folks into a “ utopian dimension ” that drama can help to invoke . In
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