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Title: A Silent Revolution: 'Image Theatre' as a System of Decolonisation
Language: English
Authors: Perry, J. Adam
Source: Research in Drama Education. 2012 17(1):103-119.
Availability: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 325 Chestnut Street Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Fax: 215-625-2940; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 17
Publication Date: 2012
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Creative Activities, Social Change, Instruction, Learning, Foreign Countries, Children, Migrant Workers, Drama Workshops, Aesthetics, Holistic Approach
Geographic Terms: Canada, Canada (Toronto)
DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2012.648991
ISSN: 1356-9783
Abstract: This article summarises the ways in which Image Theatre, a practice originally developed by Augusto Boal which continues to be developed in the hands of applied theatre practitioners and critical arts educators worldwide, can be used as a pedagogical and dramaturgical system of decolonisation at the level of communities and individuals. Through reference to two examples from my own work, I argue in this article that Image Theatre is a unique cultural practice that can be used to facilitate counter-discursive stories that are shaped by participants' invitation to play in the space between aesthetic representation and social reality. In this way, Image Theatre may invoke an in-between space similar to the post-colonial concept of hybridity which offers educators a way of transforming and reinventing meaning as well as creating new strategies for decolonising practice.
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