Diversity, Representation and Culture in TYA

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ITYARN, the International Theatre for Young Audiences Network is the official research network of ASSITEJ. Every three years, at ASSITEJ's World Congress and Festival, ITYARN organizes a conference, where researchers, as well as artists, from all over the world share their insights and perspectives. This is the third ITYARN book, compiled from two conference events, one held in 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa on "Cultural Exchange and Diversity in TYA," coinciding with the XIXth ASSITEJ World Congress and Festival Cradle of Creativity, and one held in Kristiansand Norway on "(Re)presenting Childhood," coinciding with the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering Confronting the Present. Twelve presentations were selected from these events and together they offer a rich mosaic of research areas in Theatre for Young Audiences.

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• Publié par: ASSITEJ South Africa
• Date de parution: 01 novembre 2020
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• EAN13: 9780994650573
• Langue: English

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Diversity, Representation, and Culture in TYA
Edited by
Manon van de Water
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
A collection of international essays presented at the ITYARN (International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network) Conference at the XIXth ASSITEJ World Congress and Festival in Cape Town, South Africa, May 2017 and at the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering, Kristiansand, Norway, September 2019.
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In Memory of
Professor Doctor Geesche Wartemann
University of Hildesheim


TRIBUTE TO
Professor Doctor Geesche Wartemann
We celebrate the legacy of our colleague, ITYARN co-founder, and friend, Professor Doctor Geesche Wartemann.
Without Geesche, ITYARN would not exist and the state of research in the field of Theater for Children and Youth would still be in its infancy: isolated, hard to find even with the advent of google, and struggling for recognition.
Geesche attended an ASSITEJ World Congress and Festival in 2005 and while impressed with the artistic output, she, as a researcher, wondered where the research was. With support of ASSITEJ International, several national centers, and the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway, nine scholar/practitioners from six different countries gathered to discuss the status of research in their respective countries. The result was ITYARN ; its first conference was in Australia in 2008, co-organized by Geesche Wartemann, and from that moment on ITYARN took off.
Geesche took part in and co-organized many of ITYARN ’s research events. In 2013 she organized a special symposium, “Arts Meets Research: The International Symposium on Concepts, Contexts, and Methods of Research in Theatre for Young Audiences” in Hildesheim, inviting student/scholars from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to interact with student/scholars of Hildesheim. She co-edited a guest issue of Youth Theatre Journal (Vol 27:2, 2013) with select papers of this symposium. In 2014, Geesche became Chair of ITYARN and co-organized the third ITYARN Conference at the XVIIIth ASSITEJ World Congress and Festival in Warsaw, Poland. Select papers and presentations from this conference were also published, co-edited and spearheaded by Geesche in Youth and Performance: Perceptions of the Contemporary Child (Series “Medien und Theater.” Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag, with Tülin Saglam, and Mary McAvoy).
As chair of ITYARN , Geesche organized the ITYARN “Market Place” and “Public Moment” at the 50-year Jubilee of ASSITEJ in Berlin in 2015, as well as the 2016 ITYARN “On the Edge of Practice and Research” presentations and workshops at the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering in Birmingham in 2016, and she was intimately involved with the organization of the 2017 ITYARN conference, expanded over two days, at the XIXth ASSITEJ World Congress and Festival in Cape Town, South Africa, the first International TYA Research Conference on the African Continent.
Geesche was an intelligent, thoughtful, highly respected scholar, who cared deeply about her subject. Always friendly, gentle, and respectful, she stayed down to earth, no matter whether you agreed or disagreed. Geesche leaves a legacy, enhancing many students’ and colleagues’ thinking and scholarly output. She will be remembered and missed.


Preface
The present volume of essays started out as an edited work of selected essays of the ITYARN (International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network), conference at the XIXth ASSITEJ World Congress and “Cradle of Creativity” Festival, held in Cape Town, South Africa, May 16–27, 2017. ASSITEJ (L’ Association Internationale du Théâtre de l’Enfance et la Jeunesse, in English the International Association of Theatre for Children and Youth) was founded in 1965 during the Cold War to forge a cultural bridge between East and West. Every three years ASSITEJ organizes an International Congress and Festival in a different country, which is attended by theater makers from all over the world. Since 2012 this event is augmented by an ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering held during the years in between the World Congress and Festival.
I TYARN was founded in 2006 upon the initiative of Professor Doctor Geesche Wartemann from Hildesheim University in Germany. Wartemann had attended the World Congress and Festival in Montreal the year before, and noticed that, while the international offerings were multiple and varied, there was no or limited mention of research in the field. With support of the ASSITEJ Executive Board, a meeting was organized with several international representatives from Turkey, Japan, Norway, Germany, South Korea, and the United States in Kristiansand, Norway to discuss the status of research in the field of Theater for Young Audiences (TYA). All representatives were affiliated with a university and all were both researchers and practitioners in the field. During several days of sharing research and practice, they concluded that there was indeed a lack of research and exchange in the field, both in each individual’s country as well as globally. Looking at the publications connected with theater and drama and young people, the vast majority focused on process-oriented drama with educational objectives, as opposed to product-oriented theater with the objective to provide an aesthetic experience. On the spot, the participants founded ITYARN , a free membership network, and with the support of ASSITEJ they set out to organize their first, one day, conference at the next ASSITEJ World Congress and Festival in Adelaide, Australia, in 2008.
The first ITYARN conference was a success, the proceedings were published in Youth Theatre Journal 2009, and ITYARN was off to be a regular contributor to, and (co) organizer of, international forums, symposia, and conferences. This present volume is the 4th edited, and peer reviewed, edition of articles coming out of conference proceedings held at an ASSITEJ World Congress and “Cradle of Creativity” Festival, held in May 2017. The ITYARN conference in Cape Town focused on “Culture and Diversity in TYA” and was held over two days. Because of several delays in the production process, we had the opportunity to select four more articles from the 2019 ITYARN conference, “Confronting the Present: (Re)presenting Childhood,” which was spread over four days during the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering in Kristiansand, Norway.
The “Culture and Diversity” articles were selected by the ITYARN conference organizers: Professor Doctor Geesche Wartemann from the University of Hildesheim, Germany, who was then also Chair of ITYARN , Professor Veronica Baxter from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Professor Manon van de Water from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The “(Re)presenting Childhood” articles were selected by several participants at the ITYARN Conference in Kristiansand and edited by Prof. van de Water. For consistency all articles are edited according to either US or UK spelling and grammar, depending on the origin of the writer, and in MLA style. To illustrate the diversity in regions, practices, theories, and research methods and topics, the articles are in arbitrary order, starting with the Keynote presentation in Cape Town by Matthew Reason, held at the first day of the ITYARN conference in Cape Town, South Africa. Taken as a whole, this volume offers a glimpse of the issues that play in our field connected to Diversity, Representation, and Culture.
This book is dedicated to Geesche Wartemann, my colleague and friend, who passed away on March 28, 2019 and is still sorely missed.
M ANON VAN DE W ATER
Editor


Contents
Tribute to Professor Doctor Geesche Wartemann
Preface
The Contributors
1 Spectatorship and Diversity: The Role of the Audience in Seeing Difference
Matthew Reason
2 Difficult Knowledge and Indigenous–Settler Conciliation: Making Treaty 7 , We Are All Treaty People , and Young Audiences
Heather Fitzsimmons Frey
3 An Evaluation of the Portrayal of Disabled Children in Selected African Oral Narratives
Cheela Himutwe K Chilala
4 Antigone in Ferguson: Representing Youth Precarity Through/In/As Embodiment
Kristin Hunt
5 Watching Girls Watching: Hetpaleis’s Hamilton Complex
Tom Maguire
6 Performativity and the Construction of Children’s Citizenship in Backa Theatre’s Staging of Lille Kung Mattias (2009/2010)
Sandra Grehn
7 Latinx TYA for the 21st Century: Images of Constraint and Expansion, and the Possibilities of Spiritual Healing
Lorenzo García
8 Confronting the Present (Re) Presenting Childhood: A Reading of Trauma in Ahmed Yerima’s Pari
Eunice Uwadinma-Idemudia
9 Zapato Seeks Sapato: Journeys Into and Out of Stage
Paulo Merisio