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Informationen zum Autor Jeanmarie Higgins is an Associate Professor in the School of Theatre at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA. Klappentext Teaching Critical Performance Theory offers teaching strategies for professors and artist-scholars across performance, design and technology, and theatre studies disciplines. An invaluable resource for professionals and postgraduates engaged in Performance Theory, Drama and Theatre Studies. Zusammenfassung Teaching Critical Performance Theory offers teaching strategies for professors and artist-scholars across performance, design and technology, and theatre studies disciplines. An invaluable resource for professionals and postgraduates engaged in Performance Theory, Drama and Theatre Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction: Teaching Critical Performance Theory in Today's Educational Landscape - Noe Montez; PART I Course Design: Reimagining the Syllabus; 1 Doing Things with Theory: Situated Cognition and Theatre Pedagogy - Jennifer Ewing-Pierce; 2 Feminist Musical Theatre Pedagogy - Emma Watkins and Stacy Wolf; 3 Theory Over Time: Asian American Performance, Critical Theory, and the Theatre History Survey - Angela K. Ahlgren; 4 From Systemic Dramaturgy to Systemic Pedagogy: Rethinking Theatre History and Technology - Michael M. Chemers and Mike Sell; 5 Contemporary Playwriting Pedagogies: A Survey of Recent Introductory Playwriting Syllabi - Les Hunter; PART II Classroom Identities: Engaging Students in Theory; 6 Performing Blackness, Ecodramaturgy, and Social Justice: Toward a Radical Pedagogy - La Donna L. Forsgren; 7 Casting Christopher: Disability Pedagogy in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Samuel Yates; 8 Greening the Curriculum: Introducing Ecocriticism and Ecodrama to Students in the Classroom and Rehearsal Studio - Miriam Kammer; 9 Teaching African American Plays as "Reality Checks"; Or, Why Theatre Still Matters - Isaiah Matthew Wooden; PART III Studio: Theorizing Praxis; 10 Deep Thought: Teaching Critical Theory to Designers - Jeanmarie Higgins and Michael Schweikardt; 11 Re-imagining the Actor's Presence through Contemporary Neuroscience - Andrew Belser; 12 Drag Evolution: Re-imaging Gender through Theory and Practice - Jean O'Hara; 13 The "Best" Bad Idea: Decentering Professional Casting Practices in University Productions - Maria Enriquez; PART IV Communities: Applying Theory; 14 Life First: Interdisciplinary Placemaking for the Theatre - Jen Plants; 15 Growing Applied Theatre: Critical Humanizing Pedagogies from the Ground Up - Beth Murray; 16 Up Close and Wide Awake: Participating in Anna Deavere Smith's Social Theatre - Stephanie L. Hodde; 17 Tricksters in the Academy: "Find the gap, then look for the people" - Susan Russell and Kikora Franklin ...
