Problematizing Assessment of and Through Performance: Three Frames of Reference

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel is organized to help audience members understand and use assessment as a positive force to support the development of more skillful and impactful works of performance-based research. The session begins with a brief excerpt from the film from a long running ethnodramatic project “Chicago Butoh: The Studio@620 Performance.” The panelists then provide the audience with three frames of reference to assess this work: a partnership frame, a critical and community-based frame, and a frame that uses an influential system of assessment in arts-based research, the Great Wheel. Small and whole group discussion are structured into these presentations. The session will conclude with a response by two leading scholars of performance-based research.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Arts-Based Educational Research

Chair

• Charles F. Vanover, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

Papers

• Professional Practice: Design Specifications for the Chicago Butoh Project - Charles F. Vanover, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

• Assessing Arts-Based University-Community Partnerships - Veronica Leone Matthews, University of South Florida

• Critical Literacy, Ethnodrama, and Assessment of Arts-Informed Research - Sarah Reed Hobson, Community Allies, LLC.

• Applying the Great Wheel Model to Articulate the Quality and Merits of "Chicago Butoh" - Joe Norris, Brock University; Nadia Ganesh, Brock University; Michael M. Metz, Brock University; Kevin Hobbs, Brock University

Discussants

• Mindy Roberta Carter, McGill University

• Kathryn Ricketts, University of Regina