How to Play in Slow Time

Bryoni Trezise is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory (Palgrave, 2013) and Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child (Routledge 2023).Charlotte Farrell is a performance maker and Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage (Routledge 2021), and co-founder of performance company Body of Work with Emma Maye Gibson.Alexandra Tálamo is a performance artist and sessional Lecturer at the University of New South Wales and National Insititute of Dramatic Art. She has published in Performance Research (2023) and Convergence (2022). She has presented artistic work at The Unconformity (2021) and Kaffee Kuchen-Action Art III (2018).Maria White is an educator and artist living on unceded Bidjigal land. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of New South Wales and is the Academic Course Coordinator for the Common Subjects at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.

• Preface: Encountering This BookAcknowledgementsList of FiguresAbout the Authors1 Teaching towards Creating (in) Slow Time1 When Teaching Is Making2 Why This Book Now?3 How to Read This Book4 Listening to the Itch5 Creativity as a Literacy6 Practitioner Profile: Charemaine Seet2 Practising How to Pay Attention1 Introduction2 Going with the Flow3 The Journey of Attention4 Cultivating Tender Attentiveness5 The Hum of Creativity6 Practitioner Profile: Kirthana Selvaraj3 Playing with Not-Knowing1 Introduction2 Ways We Play3 Fostering a Playful Attitude: Following the Joy4 Fostering a Playful Attitude: Combinatory Play5 Creating a Playful Environment: Critical Distance6 Conclusion7 Practitioner Profile: Pablo Latona4 Feeling Moving as Thinking1 Introduction2 Theorising Bodythinking3 Conclusion4 Practitioner Profile: Emma Maye Gibson5 Interlude: An Invitation to Rest Workshop1 Introduction2 Creating the Conditions for Restful Play3 Imaging the Restful Body4 Building a Nest5 Conclusion: Gifting Rest6 Shifting Perspectives through Imaging1 Introduction2 Thinking in Images3 Discovering through Images4 Learning to See Differently: Disrupting Habits5 Imaging to Facilitate Embodied Creative Practices6 Imaging to Encounter the Other7 Imaging to Reimagine: Wider Implications8 Conclusion9 Practitioner Profile: Victoria Hunt10 Practitioner Profile: Karlie Noon7 Modelling Imagination1 Introduction2 Modelling in Creative Practice3 Teaching Interdisciplinary Creativity through Modelling4 Practitioner Profile: Nathan Harrison5 Practitioner Profile: Alice Osborne8 Collaborating Outwards1 Introduction2 Collaboration in Creative Practice3 Collaborative Classroom Experiments4 Outwarding5 Practitioner Profile: Riana Head-Toussaint9 Futuring Learning in Ricochet Times1 Futuring2 Synthesising towards Outwarding3 On the Precipice4 Holding the Time5 Practitioner Profile: Nitin VengurlekarIndex