Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts
2009-11-15 14:36 Filed in: DiE
Call for Papers
Themed Issue of Research in Drama Education: the Journal of Applied Theatre Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts
Edited by Kathleen Gallagher and Jonothan Neelands
This themed issue of RIDE invites articles that make explicit the connection between theatre and urban contexts. In late modernity, how has the city come to be a ‘text’ for performance in classrooms, on stages, and in the streets? We invite articles that explore and shed light on the connection between theatre and ‘the urban’.
The issue invites a focus on the commonalities and differences of experiences among researchers, artists and practitioners who are committed to the social and artistic uses of drama and theatre in urban landscapes. Are there continuities of lived experience and artistic creation among under-served and marginalized urban communities? And how is drama being used to provide a public space of critique and reinvention? Such questions point to the growing fascination with ‘place’ in the study of performance and also to the steady interest in theatre as an ‘intervention’ in spaces of urban disenfranchisement. While the city often carries the burden of social stigma, of what a community lacks, it is also paradoxically characterized as a space of invention. Think Baudelaire’s ‘flaneur’, one who walks the city in order to experience it, or the rapper artist who takes to the street with the power of words and rhythms.
Abstracts of no more than 500 words might address, but are not limited to, the following questions:
Articles should aim to be 5000 words in length.
Abstracts should be sent to kathleen.gallagher@utoronto.ca AND j.neelands@warwick.ac.uk by 20th November Successful proposals will be informed by December 4th. The issue will appear as vol.16, no.2.
Themed Issue of Research in Drama Education: the Journal of Applied Theatre Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts
Edited by Kathleen Gallagher and Jonothan Neelands
This themed issue of RIDE invites articles that make explicit the connection between theatre and urban contexts. In late modernity, how has the city come to be a ‘text’ for performance in classrooms, on stages, and in the streets? We invite articles that explore and shed light on the connection between theatre and ‘the urban’.
The issue invites a focus on the commonalities and differences of experiences among researchers, artists and practitioners who are committed to the social and artistic uses of drama and theatre in urban landscapes. Are there continuities of lived experience and artistic creation among under-served and marginalized urban communities? And how is drama being used to provide a public space of critique and reinvention? Such questions point to the growing fascination with ‘place’ in the study of performance and also to the steady interest in theatre as an ‘intervention’ in spaces of urban disenfranchisement. While the city often carries the burden of social stigma, of what a community lacks, it is also paradoxically characterized as a space of invention. Think Baudelaire’s ‘flaneur’, one who walks the city in order to experience it, or the rapper artist who takes to the street with the power of words and rhythms.
Abstracts of no more than 500 words might address, but are not limited to, the following questions:
- How is the urban imagined through performance?
• How are contemporary performance practices influenced by urban dwelling and urban identities?
• How are urban youth/children/communities engaging with urban space to perform their stories, their issues, their desires?
• What are the active and transformative pedagogies of hope and choice, which urban educators and their students are co-creating?
• How does the theatre participate in the creation of civic spaces for deliberative social and artistic action?
• How do theatre-makers use performance/applied drama to resist pathologizing depictions of the ‘urban’?
• How do diverse theatre representations of the urban, and those who occupy it, symbolize larger political, personal, and social struggles of the city?
Articles should aim to be 5000 words in length.
Abstracts should be sent to kathleen.gallagher@utoronto.ca AND j.neelands@warwick.ac.uk by 20th November Successful proposals will be informed by December 4th. The issue will appear as vol.16, no.2.
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