1st Edition

Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth Performing Possibility

By Megan Alrutz Copyright 2015
166 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.