Teaching Performance Practices in Remote and Hybrid Spaces

Jeanmarie Higgins is a new works dramaturg and an Associate Professor in the School of Theatre at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Elisha Clark Halpin is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at the Pennsylvania State University. After retiring from the concert stage her research focus has been on using somatic practices as interventions to stress and trauma.

• PART I: Pedagogies of Care for Digital Spaces1 Reevaluating Rigor with 2020 Hindsight—A Manifesto for the Ungraded Classroom Jane Barnette2 Solving the Real Crisis in Virtual Education: Strategies for Training Arts Practitioners in Social and Emotional Learning Elizabeth Coen3 Practicing Academic Grace: Pedagogical Experiments with Mr. Burns in Digital Play Analysis Classrooms Samuel Yates4 I Hope This Email Finds You (Well): Teaching in Traumatic Spaces during the COVID-19 Pandemic Les GrayPART II: Dance and Movement 5 Imaginative Deixis and Distributed Fictions in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training Christopher J. Staley6 New Geographies of Space in Virtual and Hybrid Performance Classrooms Kelley Holley 7 Dramaturgy and Social Media: New Tools for Composition Elisha Clark Halpin8 Teaching Alexander Technique (without Hands) Online: A Study of Kindness Gwendolyn Walker9 Turn on Original Sound: Releasing Expectations in the Digital Dance Studio Michele DunleavyPART III: Doing Theatre Online 10 An Archive by Any Other Name: The Historiographic, the Digital, the Hybrid Daniel Ciba11 Building Trust Across Miles: New Play Dramaturgy in Virtual Rehearsal Rooms Kristin Leahey and Shelley Orr 12 Re-Making Rehearsal and Performance: Intersections of Collaboration and Accessibility in a Hybrid Romeo & Juliet Dennis Schebetta 13 Walking Backward on a Global Tightrope: Interview with Nassim Soleimanpour about the Virtual Performance of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit Marjan MoosaviPART IV: Materiality/Ephemerality 14 Reclaiming Materiality in Remote Theatrical Design Instruction Michael Schweikardt15 Reframing Beauty and Gender in Stage Makeup Charlene Gross16 Lighting Design Dramaturgy and Practice in the Post Pandemic World of Online Streaming: The Juditha Triumphans Case Study Christina Thanasoula 17 Standby Life as We Know It…Life as We (Now) Know It, Go: A Case Study in the Hybrid Stage Management Classroom Meg Hanna-Tominaga