Futures of Performance: The Responsibilities of Performing Arts in Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9781032326641 / Angielski

Karen Schupp

Opis

Futures of Performance inspires both current and future artists/academics to reflect on their roles and responsibilities in igniting future-forward thinking and practices for the performing arts in higher education.

The book presents a breadth of new perspectives from the disciplines of music, dance, theatre, and mediated performance and from a range of institutional contexts. Chapters from teachers across the various contexts of the US higher education system are organized according to the three main areas of responsibilities of performing arts education: to academia, to society, and to the field as a whole. With the intention of illuminating the intricacy of how performing arts are situated and function in higher education, the book addresses key questions including: How are the performing arts valued in higher education? How are programs addressing equity? What responsibilities do performing arts programs have to stakeholders inside and outside of the academy? What are programs’ ethical obligations to students and how are how are those met? Futures of Performance examines these questions and offers models that can give us some of the potential answers.

This is a crucial and timely resource for anyone in a decision-making position within the university performing arts sector, from administrators, to educators, to those in leadership positions.

Recenzje

"What is most meaningful about Futures of Performance is the focus on what individual and collectives of college and university faculty can (and should) do to insure a vibrant and impactful future for the performing arts. Futures of Performance explores the intersection of the vitality of the performing arts in society with the profound potential tertiary education has on preparing vocational professional artists and avocational arts lovers to make and love even more art. The extent to which the volume investigates the socio-political, economic, media, and cultural systems inherent in both the making of art and its consumption, as well as upon the entire educational enterprise, is significant."

Tayloe Harding, Dean, School of Music, University of South Carolina, USA

 

"Futures of Performance is distinct in that it places the performing arts in dialogue with each other through an interactive set of responsibilities–to the field, society, and academe–that continually influence and impact each other. One of the strengths of this volume is the personal journeys of the authors as they respond to devising new modes of interaction, the cultural history of their students, unanticipated historical events as well as the politics of the academy, the professional field, and society. Other strengths include the volume’s focus on DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). Throughout there is an emphasis on wholistic student centered approaches, responsiveness to unique cultural histories, and an open attitude toward an ever-evolving historical context. The essays in this volume are successful in providing this discursive dialogue and therefore provide an important contribution to a consideration of the future of performance in higher education."

Barbara Sellers-Young, Professor Emerita, York University, Toronto, Canada

Spis treści

Section 1: Responsibilities to Academia

1. Section I Introduction

Karen Schupp

2. Performance Across the Disciplines: Envisioning Transdisciplinary Performance Pedagogies in Postsecondary Education

Jesse Katen

3. Ethics, Standards, Evaluation, and Support　of Creative Research in Academia

Ali Duffy, Isabella Gonzales, and Destanie Davidson Preston

4. Ugly Feelings and Social Justice: Interrupting Inaction in Times of Perpetual Crisis

Lauren Kapalka Richerme

5. Hosting Co(n)fusion: Art Residencies as Invitation-Practices

Janaína Moraes

6. Decolonizing Tertiary Dance Education Through Including Student Voices in a Curricula Change Project

Camilla Reppen, Lovisa Lundgren, and Tone Pernille Østern

7. The Creative Spaces at HBCUs

Avis HatcherPuzzo, Soni Martin, Denise Murchison Payton, and Amanda Virelles

8. Call of the Butterfly: The Tao of GenuineGenerosity

Robert Farid Karimi

Section 2: Responsibilities to the Fields

9. Section II Introduction

Karen Schupp

10. The Distance of Education　

Adesola Akinleye

11. Performing Hartford: A Community Turns its Head

Rebecca K. Pappas

12. Integrating Disciplines–Disciplining Integration: Opera Curriculum through a Transdisciplinary Counter-Critical Pedagogy

Kevin Skelton

13. Sustainable Futures in Performance Practice, Production, and Distribution Ecologies

Max Zara Bernstein

14. Fighting for Equity With(in) Parasitical Resistance

Jessica Rajko

15. A Tertiary Music Performance Education Through a Lens of Entrepreneurship

Deanna Swoboda

16. "Undervalued, Underpaid, Underappreciated": The Lived Experiences of Adjunct Faculty in the Performing Arts.

Karen Schupp, Artemis Preeshl, and Joya Scott

Section 3: Responsibilities to Society

17. Section III Introduction

Karen Schupp

18. Performing Arts Education for Democracies: Are We Cultivating Citizens or Docile Laborers?

Robin Raven Prichard

19. Revitalizing the US Baccalaureate Dance Major: Integrating Values of Diversity and Interdisciplinarity

Sherrie Barr and Wendy Oliver

20. Interrogating the Academy’s Role in the Journey from Art Music to Heart Music

Fiona Evison

21. Toward a Pedagogy of Care: Well-being, Grief, and Community-based Theatre’s Role in Higher Education

Rivka Eckert

22. Arts Education in Community Colleges: A Critical Connection　

Amy C. Parks

23. Pedagogies of Critical Embodiment: Activating Submerged Histories, Moving Toward Anti-Racist Futures

Dasha A. Chapman

24. The Performing Arts in the Next America: Preparing Students for Their Future

Peter Witte

O autorze

Karen Schupp (MFA) is a Professor of Dance at Arizona State University, USA, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Dance Education. Her research examines postsecondary performing arts education, dance competition culture, and equity and ethics in dance education.