Working with Children in Contemporary Performance: Ethics, Agency and Affect
Sarah Austin, "Working with Children in Contemporary Performance: Ethics, Agency and Affect"
English | ISBN: 103245962X | 2024 | 174 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 103245962X | 2024 | 174 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book outlines how an innovative ‘rights-based’ model of contemporary performance practice can be used when working with children and young people.
This model, framed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), challenges the idea of children as vulnerable and in need of protection, argues for the recognition of the child’s voice, and champions the creativity of children in performance. Sarah Austin draws on rich research and practitioner experience to analyse Youth Arts pedagogies, inclusive theatre practice, models of participation, the symbolic potential of the child in performance, and the work of contemporary theatre practitioners making work with children for adult audiences. The combined practical and written research reflected in this book offers a new, nuanced understanding of children as cultural agents, raising the prospect of a creative process that foregrounds deeper considerations of the strengths and capacities of children.
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