1st Edition
Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth Performing Possibility
Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth argues that theatre artists must re-imagine how and why they facilitate performance practices with young people. Rapid globalization and advances in media and technology continue to change the ways that people engage with and understand the world around them. Drawing on pedagogical, aesthetic, and theoretical threads of applied theatre and media practices, this book presents practitioners, scholars, and educators with innovative approaches to devising and performing digital stories.
This book offers the first comprehensive examination of digital storytelling as an applied theatre practice. Alrutz explores how participatory and mediated performance practices can engage the wisdom and experience of youth; build knowledge about self, others and society; and invite dialogue and deliberation with audiences. In doing so, she theorizes digital storytelling as a site of possibility for critical and relational practices, feminist performance pedagogies, and alliance building with young people.
Chapter One: Digital Storytelling as an Applied Theatre Praxis
POWER ON THE LINE: PERSONAL NARRATIVES MOVE PEOPLE
GENERATIVE INTERSECTIONS: DIGITAL STORYTELLING AND
APPLIED THEATRE
DIGITAL STORYTELLING: A BRIEF OVERVIEW
APPLIED DRAMA AND THEATRE: A BRIEF OVERVIEW
UNTAPPED POTENTIAL: INTEGRATING APPLIED THEATRE AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING
DIGITAL STORYTELLING AS AN APPLIED THEATRE PRAXIS
MEDIATED REPRESENTATIONS: BENEFITS OF AN INTEGRATED PRAXIS
ATTENDING TO YOUTH STORIES: PREPARATION, PRODUCTION AND
PRESENTATION
Chapter Two: Engaging the Wisdom and Experience of Youth
TAKING YOUTH CREATIVE PRACTICES SERIOUSLY
CRITICALLY ENGAGED PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE
INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
POETIC DEVISING AND AGENTIVE SELVES
Chapter Three: Building Knowledge About Self, Others, & Society
SOCIAL AND RELATIONAL PRACTICES
STORIES AS KNOWLEDGE AND PERSPECTIVE
MAKING MEANING ABOUT SELF, OTHERS, AND SOCIETY
DOUBLE DIAMOND DESIGN AND DELIBERATION
POSSIBILITIES FOR KNOWLEDGE AND BELONGING
TOWARD NEW KNOWLEDGE
Chapter Four: Inviting Dialogue and Deliberation with Audiences
SOMETHING IS HAPPENING HERE
AFFECTIVE ENGAGEMENTS
DRAMATURGY OF AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION: FRAMEWORKS FOR
DIALOGUE AND DELIBERATION
EXTENDING ALLIANCES WITH INVITED AUDIENCES
Chapter Five: Performing Possibility
ARE YOU PART OF A MOVEMENT?
TOWARD COALITIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS
POLITICS OF PERFORMANCE
THE PROMISE OF POSSIBILITY
Biography
Megan Alrutz is Assistant Professor of Applied Theatre and Community Engagement at The University of Texas, Austin.
