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Teaching Performance Practices in Remote and Hybrid Spaces This collection of insightful essays gives teachers’ perspectives on the role of space and presence in teaching performance. It explores how the demand for remote teaching can be met while at the same time successfully educating and working compassionately in this most ‘live’ of disciplines. Teaching Performance Practices in Remote and Hybrid Spaces reframes pre- vailing ideas about pedagogy in dance, theatre, and somatics and applies them to teaching in face-to-face, hybrid, and remote situations. Case studies from instructors and professors provide essential, practical suggestions for remotely teaching a vast range of studio courses, including tap dance, theatre design, movement, script analysis, and acting, rendering this book an invaluable re- source. The challenges that teachers are facing in the early twenty-frst century are addressed throughout, helping readers to navigate these unprecedented cir- cumstances whilst delivering lessons, guiding workshops, rehearsing, or even staging performances. This book is invaluable for dance and theatre teachers or leaders who work in the performing arts and related disciplines. It is also ideal for any professionals who need research-based solutions for teaching performance online. Jeanmarie Higgins is a new works dramaturg and an Associate Professor in the School of Theatre at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Elisha Clark Halpin is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at the Pennsylvania State University. After retiring from the concert stage her research focus has been on using somatic practices as interventions to stress and trauma. Teaching Performance Practices in Remote and Hybrid Spaces Edited by Jeanmarie Higgins and Elisha Clark Halpin Cover image: © Getty Image/Orbon Alija First published 2022 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Jeanmarie Higgins and Elisha Clark Halpin; individual chapters, the contributors The rights of Jeanmarie Higgins and Elisha Clark Halpin to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Higgins, Jeanmarie, editor. | Halpin, Elisha Clark editor. Title: Teaching performance practices in remote and hybrid spaces / edited by Jeanmarie Higgins and Elisha Clark Halpin. Description: First edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021059466 (print) | LCCN 2021059467 (ebook) | ISBN 9781032134079 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032134055 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003229056 (eBook) Subjects: LCSH: Performing arts—Study and teaching (Higher) | Acting—Study and teaching (Higher) | Teaching—Technological innovations. Classification: LCC PN1576 .T435 2022 (print) | LCC PN1576 (ebook) | DDC 790.2—dcundefined LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021059466 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021059467 ISBN: 978-1-032-13407-9 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-13405-5 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-22905-6 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003229056 Typeset in Galliard by codeMantra For all who taught during the 2020 pandemic Contents List of figures xi List of contributors xiii Acknowledgments xvii Foreword: In Defense of “Stuff”: Teaching the Ephemeral Theatre of Things xix SAR AH BAY-CHENG Introduction: Teaching Performance Practices in Remote and Hybrid Spaces 1 JEANMARIE HIGGINS AND ELISHA CLARK HALPIN PART I Pedagogies of Care for Digital Spaces 9 1 Reevaluating Rigor with 2020 Hindsight—A Manifesto for the Ungraded Classroom 11 JANE BARNETTE 2 Solving the Real Crisis in Virtual Education: Strategies for Training Arts Practitioners in Social and Emotional Learning 21 ELIZABETH COEN 3 Practicing Academic Grace: Pedagogical Experiments with Mr. Burns in Digital Play Analysis Classrooms 32 SAMUEL YATES 4 I Hope This Email Finds You (Well): Teaching in Traumatic Spaces during the COVID-19 Pandemic 44 LES GRAY viii Contents PART II Dance and Movement 55 5 Imaginative Deixis and Distributed Fictions in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training 57 CHRISTOPHER J. STALEY 6 New Geographies of Space in Virtual and Hybrid Performance Classrooms 69 KELLEY HOLLEY 7 Dramaturgy and Social Media: New Tools for Composition 78 ELISHA CLARK HALPIN 8 Teaching Alexander Technique (without Hands) Online: A Study of Kindness 85 GWENDOLYN WALKER 9 Turn on Original Sound: Releasing Expectations in the Digital Dance Studio 99 MICHELE DUNLEAVY PART III Doing Theatre Online: Research, Rehearsal, Production 107 10 An Archive by Any Other Name: The Historiographic, the Digital, the Hybrid 109 DANIEL CIBA 11 Building Trust Across Miles: New Play Dramaturgy in Virtual Rehearsal Rooms 122 KRISTIN LEAHEY AND SHELLEY ORR 12 Re-Making Rehearsal and Performance: Intersections of Collaboration and Accessibility in a Hybrid Romeo & Juliet 134 DENNIS SCHEBETTA 13 Walking Backward on a Global Tightrope: Interview with Nassim Soleimanpour about the Virtual Performance of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit 145 MARJAN MOOSAVI Contents ix PART IV Materiality/Ephemerality: Teaching Design and Production Now 155 14 Reclaiming Materiality in Remote Theatrical Design Instruction 157 MICHAEL SCHWEIKARDT 15 Reframing Beauty and Gender in Stage Makeup 169 CHARLENE GROSS 16 Lighting Design Dramaturgy and Practice in the Post Pandemic World of Online Streaming: The Juditha Triumphans Case Study 183 CHRISTINA THANASOULA 17 Standby Life as We Know It…Life as We (Now) Know It, Go: A Case Study in the Hybrid Stage Management Classroom 190 MEG HANNA-TOMINAGA Index 197
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