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 prevailing 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 resource. The challenges that teachers are facing in the early twenty-first century are addressed throughout, helping readers to navigate these unprecedented circumstances 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.

PART I: Pedagogies of Care for Digital Spaces 1 Reevaluating Rigor with 2020 Hindsight-A Manifesto for the Ungraded Classroom Jane Barnette 2 Solving the Real Crisis in Virtual Education: Strategies for Training Arts Practitioners in Social and Emotional Learning Elizabeth Coen 3 Practicing Academic Grace: Pedagogical Experiments with Mr. Burns in Digital Play Analysis Classrooms Samuel Yates 4 I Hope This Email Finds You (Well): Teaching in Traumatic Spaces during the COVID-19 Pandemic Les Gray PART II: Dance and Movement 5 Imaginative Deixis and Distributed Fictions in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training Christopher J. Staley 6 New Geographies of Space in Virtual and Hybrid Performance Classrooms Kelley Holley 7 Dramaturgy and Social Media: New Tools for Composition Elisha Clark Halpin 8 Teaching Alexander Technique (without Hands) Online: A Study of Kindness Gwendolyn Walker 9 Turn on Original Sound: Releasing Expectations in the Digital Dance Studio Michele Dunleavy PART III: Doing Theatre Online 10 An Archive by Any Other Name: The Historiographic, the Digital, the Hybrid Daniel Ciba 11 Building Trust Across Miles: New Play Dramaturgy in Virtual Rehearsal Rooms Kristin Leahey and Shelley Orr 12 Re-Making Rehearsal and Performance: Intersections of Collaboration and Accessibility in a Hybrid Romeo & Juliet Dennis Schebetta 13 Walking Backward on a Global Tightrope: Interview with Nassim Soleimanpour about the Virtual Performance of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit Marjan Moosavi PART IV: Materiality/Ephemerality 14 Reclaiming Materiality in Remote Theatrical Design Instruction Michael Schweikardt 15 Reframing Beauty and Gender in Stage Makeup Charlene Gross 16 Lighting Design Dramaturgy and Practice in the Post Pandemic World of Online Streaming: The Juditha Triumphans Case Study 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 Meg Hanna-Tominaga