Teaching Performance Practices in Remote and Hybrid Spaces

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