Emerson thesis -- Theatre education
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Awe, an elicitor of cognitive processes : considerations of its use and function as a pedagogical tool, 2016
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Identifier: te_2016spring_burmester_daniel.pdf
Overview
"This paper discusses an approach to considering the affect 'awe' as a pedagogical tool and an inciter of cognitive and affective processes. Utilizing qualitative research on the topic, as well as educational, cognitive, psychological and neuro-psychological theorists, the paper argues that an educator can harness and utilize awe stimuli to allow a learner to simultaneously experience affect automaticity and a need for accommodation, making it possible for awe and awe stimuli to act as a...
Dates:
2016
Beyond the letters by Julie Eyer., 2015
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Identifier: te_2015spring_eyer_julie.pdf
Overview
"This project took traditional devised playmaking elements and brought them to the Internet. A survey was sent out over the Internet with questions revolving around the topic of the Greek life system in American colleges. From the verbatim responses, a script was created. Auditions were held, and six actors presented a staged reading of the script. A talkback with the cast, creator, and audience followed. This project created a safe, anonymous way for people to express thoughts about a given...
Dates:
2015
Blood Will Have Blood: Shakespeare as Inquiry into the World, With the World, and With Each Other, 2023
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Identifier: te_2023summer_pearl-styles_rainier.pdf
Overview
"While William Shakespeare's work permeates the United States education system, scholars debate the benefit. Through qualitative interviews and a review of literature, six pedagogical approaches to liberatory Shakespeare education were discovered and applied to a devising process. A group of unaffiliated adults piloted the co-constructed, devised process, which integrated social-justice theatre techniques with ensemble and community building activities with the goal of creating a performance...
Dates:
2023
Boal in Action: A creative means for exploring and ending the stigma on emotional disorders., 2020
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Identifier: te_2020spring_almassey_linsey.pdf
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"Through my research, I have found that connections between creative expression and positive mental health have existed for quite some time now, and my goal was to create a workshop setting that could be virtually done anywhere. The lesson plans you will read put [Augusto] Boal's techniques into practice in a six-week workshop setting. During the six weeks of workshops, participants will be guided through exploring, sharing, and reflecting on their personal experiences living with an...
Dates:
2020
Brecht in contemporary German theatre : Frank Castorf’s productions of Brecht’s plays from the perspective of postdramatic theatre, 2016
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Identifier: te_2016spring_schulte_hanife.pdf
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"This thesis analyzes the theatrical interplay between Brechtian theatre, postdramatic theatre, and Castorfian theatre." --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Bridging the Digital Divide: Reuniting Actors with their Audiences in Virtual Performance, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_stouter_billie.pdf
Overview
""Limitations foster creativity. Tell an artist to paint anything, and he may struggle, but tell him to create something specific, in a set amount of time, for a certain audience, and these constraints might well push him to produce something he might never have come up with on his own." – John C. McCrae This article explores creative strategies for mitigating the challenges of virtual performance (as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic) to reunite audiences and actors. By utilizing technology...
Dates:
2021
Chinese Student Assimilation at Emerson College: An Analysis of CHUANG Stage, 2020
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Identifier: te_2020spring_zheng_shuyu.pdf
Overview
"With an increasing number of Chinese students studying in the United States, there is an observable phenomenon in which they tend to create their own community in order to secure a sense of cultural belonging. This thesis explores the process of establishing a theater group, emerging out of an interest in the possibilities of adapting Chinese theatrical works in a way that better connects various ethnic and cultural groups. Through in-depth interviews with different team members of a...
Dates:
2020
Combining Theories of Teaching and Learning And Reflective and Reflexive Practices In Devised Theatre With Youth, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_tasha_bella.pdf
Overview
"This thesis discusses the intersections of theory and practice in applied theatre through an analysis of effective applied theatre projects, a review of literature, and the author's interpretation of her own professional experiences. The deliberate combination of theory and practice also explores some ways that devising theatre can promote a broader understanding of individual identity within the complex structures of oppression. The central question is: what are the benefits and challenges...
Dates:
2024
Communities Love Art ('The CLA') non-profit business plan, 2017
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Identifier: te_2017spring_brown_shani.pdf
Overview
"This project is a business plan for the creation of a Community Arts and Learning Center that offers more than traditional after-school programming. The center will include a recording studio, a theatre, a café, various performing art classes, technology and social media based classes, clothing design and much more. The products in the center will be made, sold by, and for the benefit of the people who live in the Boston community." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Community theatre acting workshop, 1975
Item — Item 0113502575195: [Barcode: 0113502575195]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1975
Confronting Challenges Facing International Graduate Students: The Impact of Using Documentary Theatre to tell Their Stories, 2023
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Identifier: te_2023summer_archer_lemar.pdf
Overview
"Substantial research has emphasized the various challenges faced by international graduate students when adjusting to pursuing academic studies in the United States. This qualitative study examines the challenges and experiences of four (4) international graduate students at a U.S. liberal arts college in the northeast. The study further examines the impact of engaging two (2) international students along with myself in the process of devising a documentary theatre performance to tell the...
Dates:
2023
Connected Pedagogy in Theatre Training: Embodiment, Empowerment and Empathy, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_bernfeld_eve.pdf
Overview
"Can American theatre training in the 21st Century shed its psychology-based, Cartesian-influenced, hierarchical structure and instead work toward co-engagement, co-learning and co-liberation of students and teachers? The Coronavirus pandemic, coupled with the Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and Youth Climate movements, demands an examination of traditional power hegemonies, including in the training of theatre artists. This qualitative inquiry and associated grounded research looks at the...
Dates:
2021
Create to Learn, Learn to Create: Devising a Curriculum and Lesson Plans Using Theatre for English Language Classes in Japan, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_matsushima_sora.pdf
Overview
"Learning different languages is not an easy process for everyone and requires lots of time and effort. In Japan, English has been taught as a foreign language in schools for decades. However, most of the students cannot use English as a communication tool in practice because students are sitting at their desks and teachers just convey their knowledge, even though the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and teachers have been gradually changing their...
Dates:
2024
Creating and conducting a creative dramatics class for youngsters in the town of Southboro, 1981
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Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1981
Creating ensemble in You Can't Take It With You, 2016
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Identifier: te_2016fall_flynn_ian.pdf
Overview
"This paper explores the obstacles faced in directing a production of You Can't Take It With You by George Kaufmann and Moss Hart. In particular it describes, and reflects upon, the challenges faced in taking an ensemble driven approach to the production." --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Creating Safe Space for Difficult Conversations, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_christopher_brittany.pdf
Overview
"Theatre education can provide a place of inclusion and understanding, welcoming people from all walks of life. The theatre classroom can promote opportunities for children to celebrate difference and otherness, queerness and diversity. Theatre is used as a tool for empathy development across a variety of fields and disciplines. In order to explore this further, a professional development workshop was crafted, using theatre as a tool to create space for difficult conversations. The goal was...
Dates:
2021
Creative dramatics as drama therapy at the state institution, 1971
Item — Item 0113502570378: [Barcode: 0113502570378]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1971
Creative dramatics as drama therapy with exceptional children, 1974
Item — Item 0113502573679: [Barcode: 0113502573679]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1974
Creative movement for the pre-school curriculum, 1975
Item — Item 0113502575237: [Barcode: 0113502575237]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1975
Cuchalaine of the red branch : a participation theatre experience for young people, 1982
Item — Item 0113502584064: [Barcode: 0113502584064]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1982