1st Edition
Teaching Performance Practices in Remote and Hybrid Spaces
This collection of insightful essays gives teachers’ perspectives on the role of space and presence in teaching performance. It explores how the demand for remote teaching can be met while at the same time successfully educating and working compassionately in this most ‘live’ of disciplines.
Teaching Performance Practices in Remote and Hybrid Spaces reframes prevailing ideas about pedagogy in dance, theatre, and somatics and applies them to teaching in face-to-face, hybrid, and remote situations. Case studies from instructors and professors provide essential, practical suggestions for remotely teaching a vast range of studio courses, including tap dance, theatre design, movement, script analysis, and acting, rendering this book an invaluable resource. The challenges that teachers are facing in the early twenty-first century are addressed throughout, helping readers to navigate these unprecedented circumstances whilst delivering lessons, guiding workshops, rehearsing, or even staging performances.
This book is invaluable for dance and theatre teachers or leaders who work in the performing arts and related disciplines. It is also ideal for any professionals who need research-based solutions for teaching performance online.
PART I: Pedagogies of Care for Digital Spaces
1 Reevaluating Rigor with 2020 Hindsight—A Manifesto for the Ungraded Classroom
Jane Barnette
2 Solving the Real Crisis in Virtual Education: Strategies for Training Arts Practitioners in Social and Emotional Learning
Elizabeth Coen
3 Practicing Academic Grace: Pedagogical Experiments with Mr. Burns in Digital Play Analysis Classrooms
Samuel Yates
4 I Hope This Email Finds You (Well): Teaching in Traumatic Spaces during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Les Gray
PART II: Dance and Movement
5 Imaginative Deixis and Distributed Fictions in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training
Christopher J. Staley
6 New Geographies of Space in Virtual and Hybrid Performance Classrooms
Kelley Holley
7 Dramaturgy and Social Media: New Tools for Composition
Elisha Clark Halpin
8 Teaching Alexander Technique (without Hands) Online: A Study of Kindness
Gwendolyn Walker
9 Turn on Original Sound: Releasing Expectations in the Digital Dance Studio
Michele Dunleavy
PART III: Doing Theatre Online
10 An Archive by Any Other Name: The Historiographic, the Digital, the Hybrid
Daniel Ciba
11 Building Trust Across Miles: New Play Dramaturgy in Virtual Rehearsal Rooms
Kristin Leahey and Shelley Orr
12 Re-Making Rehearsal and Performance: Intersections of Collaboration and Accessibility in a Hybrid Romeo & Juliet
Dennis Schebetta
13 Walking Backward on a Global Tightrope: Interview with Nassim Soleimanpour about the Virtual Performance of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
Marjan Moosavi
PART IV: Materiality/Ephemerality
14 Reclaiming Materiality in Remote Theatrical Design Instruction
Michael Schweikardt
15 Reframing Beauty and Gender in Stage Makeup
Charlene Gross
16 Lighting Design Dramaturgy and Practice in the Post Pandemic World of Online Streaming: The Juditha Triumphans Case Study
Christina Thanasoula
17 Standby Life as We Know It…Life as We (Now) Know It, Go: A Case Study in the Hybrid Stage Management Classroom
Meg Hanna-Tominaga
Biography
Jeanmarie Higgins is a new works dramaturg and an Associate Professor in the School of Theatre at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
Elisha Clark Halpin is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at the Pennsylvania State University. After retiring from the concert stage her research focus has been on using somatic practices as interventions to stress and trauma.
