A Robot who could not dance: Generating performative presence among performer, text, and audience through exploring and performing stories by children
A cyclic performance project enabled Australian tertiary drama students and primary school students to connect through stories written by children in hospital in the UK. University drama students undertook a semester of puppetry and created performances of children’s stories from Sextou’s book. The...
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A cyclic performance project enabled Australian tertiary drama students and primary school students to connect through stories written by children in hospital in the UK. University drama students undertook a semester of puppetry and created performances of children’s stories from Sextou’s book. The university students’ learning process involved exploring form and movement with inanimate objects to collaboratively create puppets which they allocated to the children’s stories they selected. These stories were performed for an audience of children aged between 5 and 8 years of age. This project used participatory action research and applied theatre to facilitate the university drama students’ exploration of puppetry, storytelling and performance. While the university drama students wanted to apply logic and chronology to the hospitalised children’s stories, they were willing to be vulnerable and to accept that they may not completely understand the stories. The university drama students performed their puppet interpretations of the stories for young children. This co-presence of the university drama students with the children affected a new understanding of the stories for both groups.
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| spelling | doaj-art-cd1402c4daed469fbae74a4981d211462025-02-11T15:32:44ZdeuUniversity College CorkSCENARIO: Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research1649-85262024-12-0118210.33178/scenario.18.2.1A Robot who could not dance: Generating performative presence among performer, text, and audience through exploring and performing stories by childrenLinda Lorenza0Persephone Sextou1CQ UniversityLeeds Beckett University A cyclic performance project enabled Australian tertiary drama students and primary school students to connect through stories written by children in hospital in the UK. University drama students undertook a semester of puppetry and created performances of children’s stories from Sextou’s book. The university students’ learning process involved exploring form and movement with inanimate objects to collaboratively create puppets which they allocated to the children’s stories they selected. These stories were performed for an audience of children aged between 5 and 8 years of age. This project used participatory action research and applied theatre to facilitate the university drama students’ exploration of puppetry, storytelling and performance. While the university drama students wanted to apply logic and chronology to the hospitalised children’s stories, they were willing to be vulnerable and to accept that they may not completely understand the stories. The university drama students performed their puppet interpretations of the stories for young children. This co-presence of the university drama students with the children affected a new understanding of the stories for both groups. https://journals.ucc.ie/index.php/scenario/article/view/4210drama trainingapplied theatrestorytellingchildrenpaediatricswellbeing |
| spellingShingle | Linda Lorenza Persephone Sextou A Robot who could not dance: Generating performative presence among performer, text, and audience through exploring and performing stories by children SCENARIO: Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research drama training applied theatre storytelling children paediatrics wellbeing |
| title | A Robot who could not dance: Generating performative presence among performer, text, and audience through exploring and performing stories by children |
| title_full | A Robot who could not dance: Generating performative presence among performer, text, and audience through exploring and performing stories by children |
| title_fullStr | A Robot who could not dance: Generating performative presence among performer, text, and audience through exploring and performing stories by children |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Robot who could not dance: Generating performative presence among performer, text, and audience through exploring and performing stories by children |
| title_short | A Robot who could not dance: Generating performative presence among performer, text, and audience through exploring and performing stories by children |
| title_sort | robot who could not dance generating performative presence among performer text and audience through exploring and performing stories by children |
| topic | drama training applied theatre storytelling children paediatrics wellbeing |
| url | https://journals.ucc.ie/index.php/scenario/article/view/4210 |
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