Applied Theatre

20 Jun Bratke, Diamond, Rojzman and Schechner at Performing the World 2012

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June 19, 2012 I’ve been immersed in PTW—that’s Performing the World, an international festival/conference/happening I launched eleven years ago. This October, we’re hosting the 7th PTW, “Can Performance Change Save the World?” (recasting the 2010 PTW theme, “Can Performance Change the World?” because of the increasing intensity of the challenges facing...

03 Oct Performing the World 2012

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October 3, 2012 Here's a more graphic rendition of the Performing the World invitation and call for proposals. ...

02 Oct Can Performance Save the World?

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October 2, 2011 I'm thrilled to announce the next Performing the World (PTW) conference/festival, "Can Performance Change Save the World?" to take place in New York City October 4-7, 2012. Proposals are due March 1, 2012. The theme of the last PTW, held in 2010 and attended by over 500 people from dozens...

03 Mar A Global Learning Community

Posted at 03:23h in Activity Theory, Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, Youth Development 0 Comments

March 3, 2010 Please help me publicize a unique program—The International Class. I began this seven years ago and had no idea how much it would help me and all its participants grow, or how powerful the impact would be on community organizers and talented educators and peformers, or what a...

12 Jan Prison Theatre

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January 12, 2011 “We have a play to perform. We are accountable to one another. In programs that culminate with performances for prison audiences, and (especially) public audiences, there is an opportunity for prisoners to display and celebrate the culmination of their weeks or months of hard work. They can show...

16 Aug Dan Friedman’s Theatre for Nothing

Posted at 19:37h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 2 Comments

August 16, 2010 My good friend Dan Friedman has written a paper I highly recommend. Entitled “Theatre for Nothing,” the paper delineates how theatre is being instrumentalized, especially in relation to social change efforts. Dan urges that politically oriented theatre activists recognize the stifling effect this is having on the potential...