Ethnodrama and Research-based Theatre in Theory and Performance

Session Type: Demonstration/Performance

Abstract

We demonstrate the power of ethnodrama as a tool and as an intervention in an unjust world by theorizing and performing. The major focus of the session are compressed, 25-minute performances of two new dramatic works. The first, The Cost of Triumph, evokes how Black women successfully navigate higher education without incurring student loan debt. The second, In Search of Balanced Identity, investigates the fragile and dynamic nature of personal identity in the face the impact of the war in Ukraine.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Charles F. Vanover, University of South Florida

Director

• Rijul Kataria, The Yuva Ekta Foundation

Papers

• Ethnodrama as Research Genre: A Narrative and Dialogical Typology - Andrew Babson, University of Pennsylvania

• Friends for Life: The Power of Experience, Story, and Performance - Charles F. Vanover, University of South Florida

• The Cost of Triumph: Translating Narrative Research in Cabaret for Arts-Based Education Inquiry - Candace Marie Henry, University of South Florida

• In Search for Balanced Identity - Marianna Glynska, Independent Scholar

Session Organizer

• Charles F. Vanover, University of South Florida