Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth argues that theatre artists must re-imagine how and why they facilitate performance practices with young people. Rapid globalization and advances in media and technology continue to change the ways that people engage with and understand the world around them. Drawing on pedagogical, aesthetic, and theoretical threads of applied theatre and media practices, this book presents practitioners, scholars, and educators with innovative approaches to devising and performing digital stories.This book offers the first comprehensive examination of digital storytelling as an applied theatre practice. Alrutz explores how participatory and mediated performance practices can engage the wisdom and experience of youth; build knowledge about self, others and society; and invite dialogue and deliberation with audiences. In doing so, she theorizes digital storytelling as a site of possibility for critical and relational practices, feminist performance pedagogies, and alliance building with young people.
Megan Alrutz is Assistant Professor of Applied Theatre and Community Engagement at The University of Texas, Austin.
Chapter One: Digital Storytelling as an Applied Theatre PraxisPOWER ON THE LINE: PERSONAL NARRATIVES MOVE PEOPLEGENERATIVE INTERSECTIONS: DIGITAL STORYTELLING ANDAPPLIED THEATRE DIGITAL STORYTELLING: A BRIEF OVERVIEWAPPLIED DRAMA AND THEATRE: A BRIEF OVERVIEWUNTAPPED POTENTIAL: INTEGRATING APPLIED THEATRE AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING DIGITAL STORYTELLING AS AN APPLIED THEATRE PRAXISMEDIATED REPRESENTATIONS: BENEFITS OF AN INTEGRATED PRAXISATTENDING TO YOUTH STORIES: PREPARATION, PRODUCTION AND PRESENTATIONChapter Two: Engaging the Wisdom and Experience of YouthTAKING YOUTH CREATIVE PRACTICES SERIOUSLY CRITICALLY ENGAGED PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICEINTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICEPOETIC DEVISING AND AGENTIVE SELVESChapter Three: Building Knowledge About Self, Others, & SocietySOCIAL AND RELATIONAL PRACTICESSTORIES AS KNOWLEDGE AND PERSPECTIVEMAKING MEANING ABOUT SELF, OTHERS, AND SOCIETYDOUBLE DIAMOND DESIGN AND DELIBERATIONPOSSIBILITIES FOR KNOWLEDGE AND BELONGINGTOWARD NEW KNOWLEDGEChapter Four: Inviting Dialogue and Deliberation with AudiencesSOMETHING IS HAPPENING HEREAFFECTIVE ENGAGEMENTSDRAMATURGY OF AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION: FRAMEWORKS FOR DIALOGUE AND DELIBERATIONEXTENDING ALLIANCES WITH INVITED AUDIENCESChapter Five: Performing PossibilityARE YOU PART OF A MOVEMENT?TOWARD COALITIONAL CONSCIOUSNESSPOLITICS OF PERFORMANCETHE PROMISE OF POSSIBILITY
Megan Alrutz, Julia Listengarten, M. Van Duyn Wood, USA) Alrutz, Megan (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Listengarten, Professor Julia (University of Central Florida, M. Van Duyn (USA) Wood
Megan Alrutz, Julia Listengarten, M. Van Duyn Wood, USA) Alrutz, Megan (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Listengarten, Professor Julia (University of Central Florida, M. Van Duyn (USA) Wood