Guillery, Harriet, Maravala, Persis Jadé and Lopes Ramos, Jorge ORCID: 0000-0003-4868-9700 (2022) The significance of 'role-play' and 'instruction-based performance' as modes of teaching, collaborating and performing with/for participating audiences. In: Lewis, William W. and Bartley, Sean, (eds.) Experiential Theatres: Praxis-Based Approaches to Training 21st Century Theatre Artists. Routledge, New York and Oxon, pp. 1-7. ISBN 978-1032036038; 978-1032036045; 1003188176; 978-1003188179 (doi:https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003188179-11)

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Abstract

ZU-UK distilled strategies developed for their all-night participatory performance, Hotel Medea (2006-2012), into a “dramaturgy of participation” (Lopes Ramos and Maravala 2016): a training and performance-making approach drawing on combined non-Western, non-commercial praxes from which the company has emerged (including Brazilian, Eastern European, Persian and Indian body-based and spiritual traditions). Subsequently, ZU-UK’s work has moved further beyond the confines of theatre and performer-training but continues to focus on participation and working with emerging artists towards generating post-immersive collaborative models that reject neo-liberal pressures for scale, reproducibility, and escape, in favor of intimacy, specificity and awareness. We examine “role-play” and “instruction-based performance” as modes of teaching and performing that, in conjunction with social role theory after Goffman (1959), become strategies for political activation. Examples used demonstrate the analogue of positioning audiences and students as makers of their own experiences and compelling them to think about who work is by, with, and for.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	role-play; instruction; participation; pedagogy; games
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology L Education > LB Theory and practice of education P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS)
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Last Modified:	07 Dec 2022 10:11
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/37475

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