Performance for Resilience - Engaging Youth on Energy and Climate through Music, Movement, and Theatre

This book focuses on Shine, a musical performance about how energy, humanity, and climate are interrelated. Weaving together climate science and artistic expression, it results in a funny and powerful story spanning 300 million years. The first half is professionally scripted, composed, and choreographed to convey how our use of fossil fuels is impacting our climate. The second half - our future story - is authored by local youth to generate solutions for their city's resilience. In rehearsing the musical, participants themselves embody aspects of climate science and human development. Ultimately, it demonstrates that performance can be a dynamic tool for youth to contribute to their community's resilience.

Educators can use this book to guide youth in creative expression based on (or inspired by) Shine. Included are the script, links to the music and video of the performance, materials for building curricula, interviews with collaborators, and lessons learned along Shine's year-long international tour.

List of contents

1. Introduction to Shine.- 2. Design of Shine as a Method for Engagement.- 3. Outcomes from International Tour of Shine.-
4. Conclusion.

About the author

Beth Osnes is Associate Professor of Theatre and Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado. She is co-director of Inside the Greenhouse, a CU initiative for creative climate communication, author of Theatre for Women’s Participation in Sustainable Development, and is featured in the award-winning documentary Mother: Caring for 7 Billion.

Summary

Chronicles the development of Shine, a mini-musical performance designed to galvanise community action for climate and energy

Presents community-based performance as a tool for increasing youth participation in community action
Brings into conversation climate science and the performing arts

Product details

• Authors: Beth Osnes
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2017
• EAN: 9783319672885
• ISBN: 978-3-31-967288-5
• No. of pages: 158
• Dimensions: 176 mm x 199 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 325 g
• Illustrations: XVIII, 158 p. 20 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Theater, C, Darstellende Künste, Kulturwissenschaften, Altersgruppen: Jugendliche, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, biotechnology, The environment, Environmental Sociology, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Youth Culture, Theatre and Performance Arts, Age groups: adolescents, Youth—Social life and customs, Contemporary Theatre and Performance, Contemporary Theatre