Hybrid Lives of Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre Arts: A Critical Reader
Mary Elizabeth Anderson · Doug Risner
Sep 2014 · Cambria Press
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The role of the hybrid artist-educator in schools and communities over the past fifty years has evolved significantly. Although education reform and political pressures during the last five decades have frequently interrupted steady and sustained arts education programming in the United States-especially in theatre and dance-the teaching artist today performs an important role in numerous educational contexts. Over the past fifteen years, the work of teaching artists has received growing professional attention and research: the Association of Teaching Artists (ATA) was founded in 1998 to support, advocate for, strengthen and serve the teaching artist profession. This volume, focused on teaching artists in dance and theatre disciplines, expands this developing area of inquiry and reveals topographies for teaching in and through these arts disciplines that have, until this text, been examined separately. Directed toward the last decade's growth and professionalization, the book asks: where and how is teaching artistry in dance and theatre happening? What is guiding, supporting, or complicating the work of teaching artists in dance and theatre arts today? What training and preparation do teaching artists receive? How do teaching artists effectively address the cultural diversity of the communities they serve? What are the political and economic influences that impact the work and delivery of teaching artistry? What has been learned on a large scale about the hybrid lives and work of teaching artists in dance and theatre arts? In sum, what is the status of the teaching artist today? This book examines pedagogical, artistic, and professional issues for two performing arts disciplines by using the voices and experiences of each form's practitioners and those who prepare them.
About the author
Mary Elizabeth Anderson, PhD, MFA, is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Wayne State University. Her essays about performer training and site-specific performance have been published in About Performance, Australasian Drama Studies, Brolga: An Australian Journal About Dance, Canadian Journal of Practice-based Research in Theatre, Journal of Dance Education, Research in Drama Education and Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, and her essays about performance and community have been included in African Theatre: Diasporas and Embodied Consciousness: Performance Technologies. Coauthored works with Doug Risner have appeared in Arts Education Policy Review, International Journal of Education & the Arts, and Teaching Artist Journal. Dr. Anderson is also the author of Meeting Places: Locating Desert Consciousness in Performance.
Doug Risner, PhD, MFA, is Professor of Dance at Wayne State University, where he teaches pedagogy, research, dance history, and professional practice coursework. His research focuses on the sociology of dance training and education, teaching artistry, curriculum theory and policy, social foundations of dance pedagogy, and online learning and web-based curriculum design. He has published extensively, including in the International Journal of Education & the Arts, Teaching Artist Journal, Research in Dance Education, Arts Education Policy Review, Dance Research Journal, Journal of Dance Education and Dance: Current Selected Research, and in numerous international volumes. Dr. Risner is the author of Stigma and Perseverance in the Lives of Boys Who Dance and the associate editor of the international journal, Research in Dance Education.Rate this ebook
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