Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth Performing Possibility [Hardcover]

Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth argues that theatre artists must re-imagine how and why they facilitate performance practices with young people. Rapid globalization and advances in media and technology continue to change the ways that people engage with and understand the world around them. Drawing on pedagogical, aesthetic, and theoretical threads of applied theatre and media practices, this book presents practitioners, scholars, and educators with innovative approaches to devising and performing digital stories.

This book offers the first comprehensive examination of digital storytelling as an applied theatre practice. Alrutz explores how participatory and mediated performance practices can engage the wisdom and experience of youth; build knowledge about self, others and society; and invite dialogue and deliberation with audiences. In doing so, she theorizes digital storytelling as a site of possibility for critical and relational practices, feminist performance pedagogies, and alliance building with young people.

Chapter One: Digital Storytelling as an Applied Theatre Praxis

POWER ON THE LINE: PERSONAL NARRATIVES MOVE PEOPLE

GENERATIVE INTERSECTIONS: DIGITAL STORYTELLING AND

APPLIED THEATRE

DIGITAL STORYTELLING: A BRIEF OVERVIEW

APPLIED DRAMA AND THEATRE: A BRIEF OVERVIEW

UNTAPPED POTENTIAL: INTEGRATING APPLIED THEATRE AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING

DIGITAL STORYTELLING AS AN APPLIED THEATRE PRAXIS

MEDIATED REPRESENTATIONS: BENEFITS OF AN INTEGRATED PRAXIS

ATTENDING TO YOUTH STORIES: PREPARATION, PRODUCTION AND

PRESENTATION

Chapter Two: Engaging the Wisdom and Experience of Youth

TAKING YOUTH CREATIVE PRACTICES SERIOUSLY

CRITICALLY ENGAGED PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE

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