Emerson thesis -- Applied Theatre
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Navigating Teen Girl Identity in the Digital Age Through Applied Theatre, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_gitten_victoria.pdf
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"In the era of social media, Applied Theatre empowers adolescent girls through the #i-am project at a suburban middle school in Massachusetts. This thesis explores using theatre to delve into the intersection of social media and identity among girls. Through six workshops featuring activities such as creative writing, role work, and kinesthetic strategies, the project fosters face- to-face communication and encourages girls to challenge biased messaging, providing a safe space for...
Dates:
2024
Not if, But How: Critical Race Theory in the High School Classroom, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_huiett_erin.pdf
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"Since the New York Times Magazine's publication of the 1619 Project in 2019, school administrators, educators, politicians and parents have been in heated discourse about bringing critical race theory (CRT) to K-12 classrooms. However, there is significant research that points to the validity of incorporating elements of CRT in K-12 curriculum, and to the absolute need for White students to investigate the history of whiteness, white privilege, and systemic racism. This thesis project seeks...
Dates:
2022
Not Your Average Icebreakers: Incorporating Applied Theatre and Drama-Based Methods in College Orientation Programming, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_boldt_amanda.pdf
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"Through written research, interviews, observations, and workshops, this thesis project examines the role applied theatre, the arts, and drama-based methods can have on new student transitions to higher education. By examining general orientation experiences and student response to arts-specific programming, this study outlines considerations for higher education administrators looking to incorporate drama-based pedagogy and arts projects in new student orientation. Finally, this study...
Dates:
2024
"Nothing About Us Without Us:" An Examination of the Dramatic Costs of Skewed, Surrogate, and Failed Representations of Autism in Theatre, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_lourenco_jenna.pdf
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"This thesis examines the patterns of autistic representation in theatre from the perspective of non-elected political representation as defined by Laura Montanaro, based on Damien Milton's premise (the double empathy problem) that non-autistic people are frequently unable to understand the emotions and motivations of autistic individuals, and are therefore often incapable of representing autistic characters and stories accurately through the medium of theatre and performative storytelling....
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2021
Play at Play: Collaborative Play-Based Dramaturgy in Theatre for the Very Young, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_whitten_julia.pdf
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"Childhood is one of the few truly universal experiences and as young people play, they actively explore and making sense of the world and its sights, smells, sounds, tastes, and textures all for the very first time. Theatre for the Very Young (TVY), a subtype within the field of Theatre for Young Audiences, invites audience ownership and playful participation during this critical and complex time of early childhood. This thesis positions the play of young people as inherently dramaturgical....
Dates:
2024
Practice Makes Perfect: Seeking an Alternate Route to Rote Learning Through the Use of Theater, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_brown_kelsey.pdf
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"Neuro-divergent education can feel like a race against the clock. How can educators get these students up to speed, give them life skills and social-emotional skills, while still providing them with a meaningful education? Educators, specialists, caregivers, and the students themselves, seem to be fighting an uphill battle. This study seeks to examine alternatives to rote learning through the use of theater. A sub-separate preschool class participated in weekly theater lessons for a month....
Dates:
2022
Re-hear-sing Performative Traditions: Engaging With Cultural Practices in College Devised Theatre, 2020
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Identifier: te_2020spring_thiel_john.pdf
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"This thesis documents the methodology, findings, and theoretical underpinnings of a qualitative research study that investigates how a small sample of Emerson College undergraduate and graduate students engaged with cultural traditions from their upbringings in the devised theatre project 'What Moves Us,' which I directed in the spring of 2020. Recognizing in devised theatre the potential for intervention in college-level theatre practices that can privilege hegemonic cultural values and...
Dates:
2020
Resisting and Perpetuating Dichotomies: Reflecting on a Drama-Based STEM Residency, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_galloway_sofia.pdf
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"This thesis evaluates the successes and challenges associated with a drama-based arts integration residency with adolescent learners. As the world becomes more reliant on STEM literacy, research shows young people, especially girls and young people of color, feel excluded from STEM learning. This project employed drama-based pedagogies to engage young people in STEM learning. The residency was evaluated through qualitative and quantitative methods. The data revealed how students and the...
Dates:
2024
Sapphic Dance Party: A Community Building Applied Theatre Project, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_cappello_camille.pdf
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"This project was built to explore the possibilities of using movement to facilitate spaces that feel welcoming to sapphic identifying people. A devised dance piece, inspired by stories collected rom [sic] local queer people, was performed at a local dive bar to kick off a sapphic dance party. The hope was to use dance and movement to transform the bar into a lesbian bar for a night, in response to the pervasive lack of sapphic third spaces. The Sapphic Dance Party project was an attempt to...
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2024
Sometimes, We Wade into the Mud: Anti-Oppressive Practice in TVY Devising with Emerging Artists, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_fletcher_kylie.pdf
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"Theatre for the Very Young (TVY) is a growing artform under the larger umbrella of Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) that offers opportunities for emerging artists to engage in embodied theatremaking. This thesis delves into how TVY new work development processes offer alternative ways of approaching original theatrical experiences. Using reflective practitioner journals and participant surveys to assess how emerging artists engage in interdisciplinary TVY artmaking, this thesis highlights...
Dates:
2024
Still Growing: A Reminiscence Performance Project, 2023
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Identifier: te_2023summer_taaffe_allison.pdf
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"As the United States population undergoes an unprecedented aging process, the field of creative aging serves as a powerful intervention to combat ageism while providing older adults with meaningful opportunities for personal growth and social connection. This paper delves into the successes and challenges of piloting a Reminiscence Performance project at a senior center. The primary objective was to underscore the generative potential and celebrate the lives of older adults within the...
Dates:
2023
Story Exchange Of and Around Sexual Assault: Building Connection to Educate, Heal, and Protect Community, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_schwall_erin.pdf
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"Incidents of sexual assault continue to occur at an alarming rate on college and university campuses across the country. While bystander intervention training is educating students to help prevent this crime from occurring, stories of survivors are still silenced in our classrooms, perpetuating the idea that they are alone in their trauma and need to handle it on their own. Using a theatre storytelling exercise, I developed a workshop to share personal stories of surviving sexual assault...
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2021
The Active Empathy Project, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_byrne_laura.pdf
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"Although there is a great deal of research to support the use of an arts-based curriculum as a tool for teaching empathy, there are few peer-reviewed studies that support the specific application of theatre arts practices in teaching social and emotional skills. Therefore, this project attempts to illustrate the ways in which embodied theatre, in rehearsal, performance and training provides valuable techniques when applied to social and emotional learning. The project is grounded in...
Dates:
2021
The Alchemy of Trans Voice: Gender Affirmation and Expansion Through the Linklater Voice Method, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_beauregard_allison.pdf
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"The speaking voice is a common and intense source of gender dysphoria for many transgender and gender non-conforming individuals, especially for those in public-facing and self-expressive fields such as acting. This project explores the challenges and benefits of using the Linklater Voice Method, one of the foremost voice training pedagogies for actors and public speakers, in combination with gender-affirming speech-language pathology practices, gender theory, and critical pedagogy to...
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2024
The Alexander Technique: Embodied Functionality, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_hallal_lauren.pdf
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"This study investigated the impacts, benefits, and limitations Alexander Technique lessons have on college students inside and outside of theater training. I identified and extracted themes, keywords, and commonalities in experiences using qualitative interviews and in-lesson recordings. The data collected was analyzed using the intersections of A.T., body functionality, and the dimensions of embodied experience as defined by Niva Piran's Developmental Theory of Embodiment. The results...
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2024
The Body Book Reclaiming the Desi Female Body Through Performance Storytelling, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_paracha_mariam.pdf
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"Performance and storytelling have always been powerful tools in challenging injustices. However, for women, the intersection of culture, tradition, patriarchy, and race often plays a significant role in shaping their self-esteem and perception of body image. Focusing on South Asian women, I delve into this topic through interviews, field observations, and a personal book of Spoken Word, essays, and poems, supplemented by an activity guide for Desi women to share their own narratives. My aim...
Dates:
2024
The Generation of Isolation: Using Applied Theatre Techniques to Explore Social Emotional Impact of College Aged Students Living Through A Pandemic, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_delgenio_meaghan.pdf
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"Since the worldwide shutdown of in-person learning in March of 2020, students have been finding it difficult to navigate their way back to "normal life". As a 2020 college graduate myself, I have been witness to the social emotional detriment caused by isolation. For my Thesis Project, I facilitated a five week workshop with eight college students- four undergraduate students and four graduate students. In this workshop, using an Applied Theatre lens, together we explored the potential...
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2022
The Great Gatsby; An Original Adaptation, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021fall_roncone_dena.pdf
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"'The Great Gatsby,' F. Scott Fitzgerald's colorful and dramatic novel has a storyline that naturally lends itself to the stage. Theatre artists have long been attracted to dramatizing this hundred-year-old book. 'The Great Gatsby' became public domain on January 1st, 2021. After reading published adaptations of "Gatsby," They did not fully honor the true beauty of the work - Fitzgerald's vivid imagery and use of metaphor. I have created a new one-act dramatic adaptation of 'The Great...
Dates:
2021
The search for signs of meaningful inclusion of disabled students in the public high school theater universe, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_pillsbury_marianne.pdf
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"This thesis seeks to illuminate the challenges and opportunities of intentionally including disabled students identified for special education services in a public high school theater context. The findings are based on the experiences of a theater educator, artist, and scholar running a "unified theater" program where students with and without disabilities come together to create and present an original devised play based on their interests. The author dramatizes what "meaningful inclusion"...
Dates:
2024
Toward a Post-Pandemic Pedagogy: Coming to Grips with the State of Play, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022summer_lecuyer_timothy.pdf
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"This study discusses the devising of an online theatre piece, a totally unique project for the students involved, at the Winnipesaukee Playhouse Education Department in Meredith, New Hampshire. It is a first-person account of the motivations, insecurities, and growth inspired by this project for its director and participants. It looks forward to possible applications for a post-pandemic pedagogy." -- Abstract
Dates:
2022