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Futures of Performance The Responsibilities of Performing Arts in Higher Education
Futures of Performance inspires both current and future artists/academics to reflect on their roles and responsibilities in igniting future-forward thinking and practices for the performing arts in higher education.
The book presents a breadth of new perspectives from the disciplines of music, dance, theatre, and mediated performance and from a range of institutional contexts. Chapters from teachers across various contexts of higher education are organized according to the three main areas of responsibilities of performing arts education: to academia, to society, and to the field as a whole. With the intention of illuminating the intricacy of how performing arts are situated and function in higher education, the book addresses key questions including: How are the performing arts valued in higher education? How are programs addressing equity? What responsibilities do performing arts programs have to stakeholders inside and outside of the academy? What are programs’ ethical obligations to students and how are those met? Futures of Performance examines these questions and offers models that can give us some of the potential answers.
This is a crucial and timely resource for anyone in a decision-making position within the university performing arts sector, from administrators, to educators, to those in leadership positions.
Section 1: Responsibilities to Academia
- Introduction
- Performance Across the Disciplines: Envisioning Transdisciplinary Performance Pedagogies in Postsecondary Education
- Ethics, Standards, Evaluation, and Support of Creative Research in Academia
- Ugly Feelings and Social Justice: Interrupting Inaction in Times of Perpetual Crisis
- Hosting Co(n)fusion: Art Residencies as Invitation-Practices
- Decolonizing Tertiary Dance Education Through Including Student Voices in a Curricula Change Project
- The Creative Spaces at HBCUs
- Call of the Butterfly: The Tao of GenuineGenerosity
- Introduction
- The Distance of Education
- Performing Hartford: A Community Turns its Head
- Integrating Disciplines–Disciplining Integration: Opera Curriculum through a Transdisciplinary Counter-Critical Pedagogy
- Sustainable Futures in Performance Practice, Production, and Distribution Ecologies
- Fighting for Equity With(in) Parasitical Resistance
- A Tertiary Music Performance Education Through a Lens of Entrepreneurship
- "Undervalued, Underpaid, Underappreciated": The Lived Experiences of Adjunct Faculty in the Performing Arts.
- Introduction
- Performing Arts Education for Democracies: Are We Cultivating Citizens or Docile Laborers?
- Revitalizing the US Baccalaureate Dance Major: Integrating Values of Diversity and Interdisciplinarity
- Interrogating the Academy’s Role in the Journey from Art Music to Heart Music
- Toward a Pedagogy of Care: Well-being, Grief, and Community-based Theatre’s Role in Higher Education
- Arts Education in Community Colleges: A Critical Connection
- Pedagogies of Critical Embodiment: Activating Submerged Histories, Moving Toward Anti-Racist Futures
- The Performing Arts in the Next America: Preparing Students for Their Future
Karen Schupp
Jesse Katen
Ali Duffy, Isabella Gonzales, and Destanie Davidson Preston
Lauren Kapalka Richerme
Janaína Moraes
Camilla Reppen, Lovisa Lundgren, and Tone Pernille Østern
Avis HatcherPuzzo, Soni Martin, Denise Murchison Payton, and Amanda Virelles
Robert Farid Karimi
Section 2: Responsibilities to the Fields
Karen Schupp
Adesola Akinleye
Rebecca K. Pappas
Kevin Skelton
Max Zara Bernstein
Jessica Rajko
Deanna Swoboda
Karen Schupp, Artemis Preeshl, and Joya Scott
Section 3: Responsibilities to Society
Karen Schupp
Robin Raven Prichard
Sherrie Barr and Wendy Oliver
Fiona Evison
Rivka Eckert
Amy C. Parks
Dasha A. Chapman
Peter Witte
Biography
Karen Schupp (MFA) is a Professor of Dance at Arizona State University, USA, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Dance Education. Her research examines postsecondary performing arts education, dance competition culture, and equity and ethics in dance education.
"What is most meaningful about Futures of Performance is the focus on what individual and collectives of college and university faculty can (and should) do to insure a vibrant and impactful future for the performing arts. Futures of Performance explores the intersection of the vitality of the performing arts in society with the profound potential tertiary education has on preparing vocational professional artists and avocational arts lovers to make and love even more art. The extent to which the volume investigates the socio-political, economic, media, and cultural systems inherent in both the making of art and its consumption, as well as upon the entire educational enterprise, is significant."
Tayloe Harding, Dean, School of Music, University of South Carolina, USA
"Futures of Performance is distinct in that it places the performing arts in dialogue with each other through an interactive set of responsibilities–to the field, society, and academe–that continually influence and impact each other. One of the strengths of this volume is the personal journeys of the authors as they respond to devising new modes of interaction, the cultural history of their students, unanticipated historical events as well as the politics of the academy, the professional field, and society. Other strengths include the volume’s focus on DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). Throughout there is an emphasis on wholistic student centered approaches, responsiveness to unique cultural histories, and an open attitude toward an ever-evolving historical context. The essays in this volume are successful in providing this discursive dialogue and therefore provide an important contribution to a consideration of the future of performance in higher education."
Barbara Sellers-Young, Professor Emerita, York University, Toronto, Canada
