Theater
Joy Fear and Poetry
La Boite Theatre, The Loft QUT Creative Industries Precinct Kelvin Grove (Brisbane, Australia, 10-Jul-2013–20-Jul-2013)
2013
Abstract
Joy Fear and Poetry is an original performance work written, designed and directed by Natasha Budd in collaboration with 15 performers aged 7-12 years. It was performed in Brisbane as part of La Boite Theatre's 2013 Indie Season. The production employs contemporary performance, postdramatic and constructivist methodologies to make an intervention into habituated patterns of positioning children in society. It embodies a model of practice that moves beyond participant empowerment toward a more nuanced process of co-artists creating intersubjective 'composite texts' (McCall 2011) for mainstream audiences. Joy Fear and Poetry experiments with techniques for performance making that create conditions conducive to authentic theatre making with children. These focus on dramaturgical, directorial and design strategies harnessed to maintain the performers' focus, motivation and cognitive engagement within a reflexive, collaborative process.
Details
- Title
- Joy Fear and Poetry
- Authors
- Natasha N Budd (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Event details
- La Boite Theatre, The Loft QUT Creative Industries Precinct Kelvin Grove (Brisbane, Australia, 10-Jul-2013–20-Jul-2013)
- Format
- 50 minutes
- Date published
- 2013
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449172602621
- Output Type
- Theater
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