Performance Studies in Education: A Polydisciplinary Secondary-Level Curriculum Development Project

• In Event: Roundtable Session 17
  In Roundtable Session: Examinations of Arts Creation, Performance, and Space

Abstract

This inquiry is intended as a provocation and an intervention within secondary level theatre education, which at the present moment is focused primarily on mainstream theatre, script-based, actor-training models of performance. Opening up the focus from theatre, as only one of multiple possible performance forms, to the study of performance in all its hybridity will allow teachers and students to explore and experience a rich and deep polydisciplinary curriculum area of personal, cultural and socio-political relevance.

Author

• Monica M. Prendergast, University of Victoria